#ukagaka screenshots

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Aster™ Terror Star! (Ukagaka/Desktop Buddy)

(contents of this post are mirrored in website linked above, check out that page too!)

On a random browsing session, you come across a name you've only heard offhandedly mentioned by some tech nerds: Aster Assistant Software. A download of a software announced and swiftly forgotten, just freely available in a distant corner of the internet. Thinking you may have found a piece of history, you quickly download it to see what that's all about. What you got instead, was an AI that seemingly never shuts up.

It's done! Continuation of Aster™️Assistant Software, though doesn't require you play it whatsoever. As most ukagakas, requires SSP to run. Link includes an explanation as to what those are and installation instructions.

Based on the Simplicity template by Zichqec. Using SSP on Windows is recommended.

Content warnings:

⚠️ Unreality: No 4th wall, meta themes.

⚠️ Photosensitivity: Character often vibrates in place, and has glitchy effects involving minor flashing lights. You will be asked whether you prefer these on or off.

Features:

A lot of yapping! Said yapping can be adjusted to be less or more frequent;

Longer yapping, giving a bit of insight into Aster's journey;

A little bit of insight on the digital world from the perspective of a living software*;

Capacity to be bothered, just a little bit;

Basic display of file and folder properties, with a little bit of information about some common file formats;

Basic sound playback, if you need to check a file in a jiffy;

May converse with a certain past iteration of itself (Make sure it's on latest version!);

For accessibility: you can reduce glitching effects to remove flashing lights, and turn of the shaking effect if necessary.

(* Information that isn't blatant sci-fi is partially based in publicly available information and personal experience. It may not be 100% accurate, and is provided purely for entertainment purposes. I am by no means an expert!)

Download here!

Instructions for installation are linked to in the page. Please follow them carefully! If anything seemingly goes off the rails, please let me know!

[ukgk]

(2004/06/05)

[neighborhood-ukagakafan]

Rare post moment + deltarune/Undertale

I hope this makes up for my absence

[itsubear]

Lwook he fuzzy and eepy

You can get this HP!Gaster ukagaka/ghost from @/zarla-s!

[hatenayousei]

[chimerianidiot]

Yesterday I was thinking about the time I ended up developing a fixation on some random lost ukagaka character, so I decided to draw him. Who knows, maybe this will manifest the resurfacing of a download link (lol).

Textless version + link to an archive of the character’s info page under the cut.

archive of the Hiyama Investigation Office info page (text will be broken on most browsers, so I recommend using a browser that allows choosing the correct text encoding, such as Pale Moon)

[versegm]

The Castoria Ukagaka is OUT!

Artoria Caster (Castoria for short) from popular video game Fate/Grand Order is here and ready to mingle on your desktop! Written by @versegm, coded & drawn by @characteroulette, she can do many things such as

Nothing

Chill

Relax

Look pretty

Make conversation

Get pet

Change into no less than three (3!) different shells, each of which featuring a removable hat

Empty your bin and check your calendar, if you really want her to do something useful.

You can download her here!

CONTENT WARNINGS:

Chronologically, Castoria hails from the aftermath of her adventure. Meaning she is dead. She does occasionally mentions her death and its circumstances, albeit in vague terms.

While Castoria mostly acts kind and helpful, she does occasionally get really bitter and vitriolic. This will never be targeted towards you as a user, but I figure this warrants a warning regardless.

She has one whole line about petplay.

What's an Ukagaka/How do I get the desktop Castoria?

An Ukagaka/Ghost is a computer widget that hangs around desktop. It can do a variety of things (empty your bin, check your calendar, set you reminders, ect) though in Castoria's specific case this is really just "what if blorbo could hang around with you and randomly chat you up." It's a bit like a shimeji, if you've heard of those.

Follow this very simple tutorial and you, too, will get to have the funny Castoria on your desktop! (And perhaps, many other ghosts! We did a Herlock Sholmes a few years back :)

Step 1: Get SSP

SSP is the software that allows ukagakas to run. You can get it here. Yes, the website is in full japanese, but fearen't! I screenshotted the download button you need.

Step 2: Get the .nar file of the ukagaka you want

Some ukagakas have multiple .nar files (Castoria has two for instance), just get all of these bad bitches :]

Step 3: Launch SSP

You should get good ol Emily popped on your desktop!

Step 4:

Drag your .nar files on emily! A pop-up will ask you if you want to install the ghost, and you shall say yes!

Step 4.5:

If the previous doesn't work, you can unzip the .nar files in the ghost folder in SSP, next to Emily's folder.

Step 5:

Right click + change ghost + Artoria Caster

And you should be good!

If you are still having issues, I will redirect you to the Ukagaka wiki and to Zi's blog.

[k40m0j1]

woo hooo first yes man drawing!! i love this little fellow!! inspired by some dialogue from an ukagaka (that i unfortunately couldn't get a screenshot of </3) by @/toxartsukagakas and tv head design is also taken from there

this guy has completely taken over my brain im glad i could finally draw him xd

[ukagakadreamteam]

Hey, so this one's about the underfell sans ukagaka by change side (I think, thats the dev on the wiki anyways), and for some reason I've noticed that what would normally be a clothes pile (I think) has changed into..Two underfell sanses? Is there any fix to this? Also, the one that was the clothes pile is permanently stuck as holding a phone and looking at it. So only the actual one moves. For other info that may help, I'm on windows, only running this ghost + there is no error message when this happens/happened.

This is a tricky one! This ghost in particular has very unique code, and as I am not terribly familiar with it it is hard for me to spot errors in it. I took a look, but didn't find anything yet. We haven't seen anyone else with this issue before either, so there isn't a known fix.

Does this issue happen upon restarting the ghost/SSP? Or does something specific trigger it? That information would be a good place to start.

Additionally, it would be helpful if you can bring up SSP's script log, and show the log when the issue occurs, whether that be on boot or otherwise.

To open SSP's script log, you'll need to be in developer mode. You can toggle developer mode in the SSP preferences, on the General page.

Once you've done this, you should be able to click on a ghost and then press Ctrl + L to open script log. This will display a log of all the scripts that your open ghosts have run recently.

A screenshot of the log would be useful, although if the script is longer than the window itself, it would be more helpful if you could copy out the script(s) in question! You can do this by highlighting an entry, then clicking the Copy button.

I can't guarantee that we'll be able to find the issue or provide a fix, but we'll certainly try if we can have a bit more info to go off of!

[wyrm-in-the-apple]

I was digging for screenshots for the Gaster essay I’m writing and found this goofy thing from last August spawned from my frustration at drawing pelvises

The ukagaka are the ukaGaster, S the skeleton, and DTS

[owlfromthemeadow]

I hope people don't think I made that Narrator Ukagaka. The creator is listed on the wiki page but. ough, I just took screenshots of an Ukagaka I liked

[logicpng]

howdy! i downloaded the aster assistant a while ago and they functioned fantastically and i love them btw, but recently (just now actually) i noticed an issue i hadnt run into before.

i dont know if this is due to an ssp update and is thusly out of your control; but when vega or rigel manifest in their "pop-up" form, they are locked reeeeeaally low below the others' body. i can move the dialogue window all i want, but the "pop-up" stays down. similarly, if i grab the "pop-up", it takes their body up along with them.

its very strange and i didnt use to have this issue before, and im wondering if its just a setting in ssp that i need to switch on or off that you're aware of.

ahh, yeah I think it may have been an update, there was something related to window positions. but things do just go off the rails sometimes. I probably will add a mode to adjust the side panel's position manually

them being fixed together is intentional on my part, just not to "lose" the panel if Aster's main body is dragged

for now you can enable developer options in SSP Preferences, press Ctrl+S on him*, and in the input window enter "\![reset,sticky-window]" to unlock em. once you're done adjusting just input "\![set,sticky-window,1,0]" to reenable it

(*That will open Script Input. You can also open it through Right Clicking on him and select Development Interface in Utilities submenu, it will have the button)

I hope this helps! posting this publicly too in case anyone who has Aster needs it too

[neighborhood-ukagakafan]

Ukagaka creators should lowkey make me a Dogdaym+ Catnap ukagaka for my birthday on the 14th [ SLASH JAY, well if you want /JJJJ ]

Anyways my favorite old screenshots of future Leo

@kiturtles :3

[owlfromthemeadow]

Wish I saw this earlier. Maybe I'll post some screenshots of the Ukagaka (Ghost) later on :>

holy fuc

imagine if there was a thierry shimeji

silly guy running around desktop

I would download that fuck IMMEDIATELY I don’t care if my pc explodes

little men who THROW whatever tab you're looking at AWAY so you can look at him & him only

god would a shimeji be cool though,, i definitely could not buckle down & make one myself but we can Envision together...

though I do love the idea of thierry being more of a " computer buddy " ala bonzi buddy or clippy, where he just stands there & Sees All & occasionally makes a bad joke or says you ought to be put on a list for your search history even though his is worse

but... hey... we KIND of have that already...

[smallteacake]

I have a bunch of screenshots of various ukagaka because these things have taken over my life

[sysig]

If it’s not one thing, it’s another