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AI manga cleaning, translation, and translation. It works!

Sun, 02 May 2021 19:47:00 -0500

Quick recap: I've been building an AI tool that cleans, translates, and typesets manga speech bubbles. It started as an effort to read one of my favorite manga, One Punch Man, as soon as a chapter was released. I made significant progress after creating more than 4000 pages of training data from OPM to the train the AI. Today I present a version of the tool that is vastly improved in almost every way.

Full page cleaning, translate, and typeset

Text recognition and translation that was...

Improved neural net, automate cleaning, translation, and typesetting

Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:38:00 -0500

My Imgur post - My Reddit thread

I trained a neural net to detect speech bubbles in One Punch Man (and little bit of Garou from part 1), in an effort reduce the amount of work that scanlator has to do when a new chapter comes out.

Here's part 1

I'm happy to report that the new neural net is now smart enough to distinguish Saitama's head from a bubble.

So much has improved since. My new network is trained on almost 4000 pages of OPM (vs ~200 pages from last post) up to the Orochi bei...

The art of Trap Labs

Mon, 02 Sep 2019 14:02:00 -0500

Fairly OddParents, Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls…what do you call this style? CalArts? Flat? Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network of early 2000s? I haven't found a word yet. I studied the art of these three shows specifically for my indie game Trap Labs. The end result ended up being more of a blend between FOP and Dexter's Lab. PPG's style was a lot simpler compared to the them, more kindergarten… for lack of better word

This is Vicky's surprisingly normal room from FOP. It encapsulates a great...

Indie marketing is a fool's errand

Sun, 01 Sep 2019 16:28:00 -0500

Let me give you some context before I get ripped to shreds by the opinionated. If you're an established studio, has influence, or have a lot of money to spend then this won't apply. I'm a first time indie dev and I had a modest production budget for my indie game (~10k USD, plus marketing). I suppose most of us in this subreddit would be similar or worse than my situation…right?

Why social media don't work
Social media works if you already have followers. Who's reading my posts when I have no...

Linux development is top notch. Linux deployment is not.

Thu, 25 Jul 2019 09:54:00 -0500

I created a cross-platform online action puzzle game that was released late year. It's a single code C++ base that cross-compiles to 5 different platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS). Windows was my primary development machine but I always partially worked on Linux because the game server is built for Linux, and it's on the same code base. The game client is built ontop of Cocos2d-x. Earlier this year I migrated my entire development platform from Windows to Linux, which improved m...

I really should update more

Wed, 10 Jul 2019 19:30:00 -0500

I wrote down a list of stuff overtime that I want to write about but never had the time. I'm going to do them now. Stay tuned. Also in case you are checking out my website from the job posting, hi :)

One-Punch Man speech bubble neural net

Wed, 18 Jul 2018 13:30:00 -0500

My Imgur post - My Reddit post

Like a lot of people when a new chapter of OPM comes out I’m just hovering over the RAW reddit thread waiting for someone to translate the dialog. I didn’t really care if it was poorly typeset or just plain text translation, I just wanted to know what’s going on! There are some amazing people from the thread like hdx514 would post plain text translation almost immediately after the chapter is released.

So I wanted to see if it was possible through machine l...

Trap Labs Beta - Now on Steam and mobile!

Mon, 16 Oct 2017 22:51:00 -0500

*iOS beta is only available in TestFlight, please request by email traplabsgame@gmail.com

So it's finally on Steam! This beta is basically the the game in its current entirety with some work in progress levels removed. I'm currently working full speed on making levels and adding platform integration such like achievements and leaderboards, and I plan to do final launch in 2-3 month time. It's been a long time coming, and I hope you good people enjoy the game!

Yo, updates

Sat, 11 Feb 2017 14:03:00 -0600

Trap Labs is now on Steam Greenlight!

If you like what you see please vote and support my efforts!

Comments are now enabled on various parts of my website. This is long overdue. Please provide me with feedback so I can improve my work!

Trap Labs Code Design and Architecture Series

I started this website with the intension to share my knowledge with the world, but I also believe that if I don’t have quality things to say I’d rather shut the hell up, which is why this site is mostly...

Announcing: Trap Labs

Fri, 13 Jan 2017 13:39:34 -0600

Announcing: Trap Labs

Trap Labs is a single button multiplayer top down platformer that allows you to race, co-op, puzzle with friends online while dodging traps!

Download the work in progress build:

Windows --- Mac

Extract all files to a directory. Run TrapLabs.exe / TrapLabs.app to play.
Click on the spot you want to move to, escape key to exit level. Dodge traps to advance further into the level. That’s it!

This demo is work in progress. Multiplayer is not yet available for ...