Spielerando

Some letters and quote marks show as empty boxes in my game

A stylish font often lacks the curly quotes, the dash or the special letters your story uses, and the player sees boxes where words should be. Here is how to compare the text of the whole game with what the font can draw and get a list of the culprits.

Why this works

A font is a fixed set of drawings, and everything outside it is a blank or a swap. Comparing all text of the game with what the font can draw finds gaps in one pass, instead of waiting for a player to meet the first empty box.

When not to use it

Skip it when the text is made by players at run time, so you cannot list it, or when a fallback font already catches missing marks. Then pick a font with wide coverage, or test the fallback by playing.

In the full entry

  • What to build, step by step
  • Starting values and the reason for each
  • 4 common mistakes and the fix
  • 27 lines of example code with 4 checks that pass
  • How your AI shows you that it works

Say this to your AI

Use the Spielerando entry "Some letters and quote marks show as empty boxes in my game" (read_entry font-is-missing-letters-and-quotes) in my game. Build it step by step, and show me how you checked that it works.

Or skip this and connect the MCP: your AI then finds all of this by itself.Connect the MCP