Sierra Death Screen Generator

Try it out: foone.github.io/SierraDeathGenerator

This creates GAME OVER/YOU DIED screens as seen in Sierra Online's SCI engine. Right now, it supports:

• Bad Dudes
• Bio Menace
• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS1)
• Commander Keen 4
• Doom
• DOS text screens
• Duke Nukem 1
• King's Quest 4
• Legend of Zelda
• Manhunter: New York
• Metal Gear Solid
• Metroid
• Mortal Kombat II
• Roland MT-32 Synth Module LCD
• Oregon Trail
• Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow
• Police Quest 2
• Police Quest 3
• SimCity 2000 Advisors
• Super Mario 64
• Super Mario Bros
• Space Quest 3
• Space Quest 4
• Stardew Valley
• Street Fighter II
• Wally Bear and the NO! Gang
• Zero Wing (Genesis/Megadrive)

Creating a new font

This is mainly a guide for me so I don't forget.

1. Extract the font file from the game using one of the SCI viewers, like SCI Companion or SCI Viewer
2. Run sci-font-extract.py to generate the font file + json file
3. Edit the json file to add the height/origin/box/null-character fields
4. Screenshot a game over in the game, crop the death screen, then edit out the text

TODO

• Support more games!
• Add a twitter-safe saving option, for death screens that aren't inherently twitter-safe
• Add options to adjust scaling.
• Let you change the titlebar text?
• Add custom backgrounds, not just the error box?
• Automatic word-wrapping so you don't have to do it manually like a caveman
• A way to automate conversion, so you could do things like make twitterbots out of this?
• Merge the source images?

Other games to add

• Every SCI game
• AGI games?