Guide List
Below are a selection of guides, written by various members of the community. The top section includes guides that are hosted on the wiki itself. These are editable by anyone that can add useful information to them. It is recommended to check out the discussion pages for these guides in case there are other insights. You are welcome to add new guides that cover new topics, or cover them in a different way from the existing guides. To see the contributors to a particular guide and when it was last updated, check the revisions page.
The lower section lists guides hosted externally. These are typically written by one author, and are not subject to the wiki's style requirements. If you want to write a guide that nobody else can edit, you can publish it somewhere else (a personal site, social media post, pastebin, etc.), and have it linked here.
Guides for users
Guides for developers
Surfaces.txt
External Guides
A listing of guides hosted outside of our wiki.
Guides for users
| Guide Name | Format | Author | Description | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| How to install a Ghost / Ukagaka | Text | Thelibrarbian | How to install SSP, and install a ghost to it. | November 13th, 2018 | |
| How to Install SSP | Video | Quonit | How to install SSP. | August 11th, 2018 | Some parts of this are slightly outdated. Noteably, the SSP website shown is old. |
| How to use GHOST? | Text | Unknown | A brief guide to installing SSP and installing ghosts, as well as some common issues/tips. | Unknown, estimated around 2012 | |
| Setting up subfolders in your ghost list | Text | Zichqec | How to set up subfolders for ghosts/etc., and other installation-related options. | May 2nd, 2023 | Has been updated since its initial release. |
| What is an Ukagaka/Ghost? (or FLELE) | Video | Zarla | A general overview of what ghosts are. | June 11th, 2021 |
Guides for developers
AYA/YAYA
| Guide Name | Format | Author | Description | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Convert from AYA to YAYA | Text | Zichqec | How to convert a ghost written in AYA to YAYA. | August 3rd, 2022 | |
| Implementing a Relationship System in Your Ghost\Ukagaka | Text | Okuajub | A guide to setting up a relationship system in a ghost written in AYA/YAYA. | January 1st, 2022 | |
| Loops and Arrays | Text | Zichqec | What loops and arrays are and how to use them together in AYA/YAYA. | March 26th, 2021 | |
| Run Envelopes Through Script Input | Text | Zichqec | How to get ghosts in YAYA to be able to use envelopes in script input. | August 3rd, 2022 | |
| Upgrade Old Versions of YAYA | Text | Zichqec | How to update YAYA to the latest version, with a clean YAYA as SHIORI library. | August 3rd, 2022 | Specifically aimed at ghosts built on the GT Ghost Template, but should work for other ghosts too. |
| What is AUTO_DATA_CONVERT | Text | Zichqec | An explanation of YAYA's AUTO_DATA_CONVERT option. | February 2nd, 2023 | Has been updated since its initial release. |
| YAYA Fundamentals | Text & companion ghost | Zichqec | An English guide to the YAYA programming language. Comes with a companion ghost to run example code. | December 24th, 2022 | |
| Web Scraping using HTTP-Get and Regex | Text | Vita | A guide to scraping data from websites in YAYA. | September 28th, 2020 | Has been updated since its initial release, with the last update being September 24th, 2023 |
Surfaces.txt
| Guide Name | Format | Author | Description | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Definition vs. New Definition | Text | Zichqec | What the difference is between SERIKO's old definition and new definition. | June 23rd, 2021 | Released alongside the companion tool olddef2newdef. |
| Ping Pong Loops | Text | Zichqec | A guide to creating continuous, randomized animations in SERIKO for situations where replace won't work. | June 23rd, 2021 |
Other guides for developers
| Guide Name | Format | Author | Description | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creating SAORI-Basic | Text | Zichqec | Explaining SAORI-Basic and how to make them. | March 11th, 2021 | Has been updated since its initial release. |
| Ghost Release Tips & Checklist | Text | Zichqec | A checklist of things to do before releasing a ghost/etc., with reasons for why each item is important. | June 18th, 2023 | Has been updated since its initial release. |
| How to get your ghost to support Discord Rich Presence | Text | steve02081504 | Setting up a ghost to use the Discord Rich Presence plugin. | February 20th, 2022 | Available in English, Chinese, and Japanese. Has been updated since its initial release. |
| Kawari no Kawari | Text & companion ghost | Okuajub | A complete ghost walkthrough in the SHIORI Kawari. | December 19th, 20231) | |
| Negative Coordinates in Balloons | Text | Zichqec | How and why to create balloons with negative coordinates, simplifying the balloon-making process. | January 4th, 2022 | |
| Notepad++ tips to improve your ghost dev experience | Text | Zichqec | Tips and tricks for using Notepad++ efficiently, and how to optimize it for ghost coding. | September 24th, 2023 | Made for Etc. Jam 2023 |
| SAORI creation | Text | Levidre | A guide covering how to make a SAORI in C++. | March 18th, 2021 | |
| Template Walkthrough | Text & companion ghost | Zarla | A walkthrough covering the full process of creating a basic ghost. | November 25th, 2014 | Last updated September 2022. Read more about it here. |
| 伺か Advent Calendar 2021 12/17 | Text | steve02081504 | How to integrate GitHub into Ukagaka development. | December 13th, 2021 | Available in English, Chinese, and Japanese. Has been updated since its initial release. |
Other guides
The following is a list of guides that are not within the scope that the wiki typically covers. They are not in English, and are usually written by members of the broader ukagaka community. They are gathered here because they are particularly useful or insightful, and may cover topics that no English guide currently does.
| Guide Name (Translation underneath) | Format | Author | Description | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wine上でSSPを使い(first)さくらを起動する Run Sakura (first ghost) using SSP on Wine | Text | Ponapalt | A guide on installing SSP on Linux, with Mikage Sakura (the default ghost of Materia). | October 12th, 2014 | |
| 【Big sur,Catalina対応】MacでWineを使って伺かを動かす。 [Compatible with Big Sur, Catalina] Run Ukagaka using Wine on Mac | Text | c-lege | A guide on installing SSP on Mac, using Wine. | May 30th, 2019 |
