"Character" "Idea" Generator

The unnecessarily high effort remake-sequel to a random thing I made in 2019 and forgot about is finally here...! (Don't worry if you have no idea what the original is, it's completely irrelevant.)

The intended purpose of this is to generate (very abstract ideas) for character designs. Basically it's a little art challenge toy thingy...

Instead of a detailed physical description of a character like some other Google search results for "character idea generator" will give you, this one only gives you a combination of symbols, colors, and a word. Because of this, it should hopefully be mostly agnostic to what kind of characters you might like to draw, and is only concerned with giving you a thematic direction. (You could probably also use it to make things that aren't centered around characters at all if you wanted to...It's really nonspecific.)

Instructions:

- Press the big button on the right to randomize the things on the left. You can also press the "R" key on your keyboard.

- You can press the lock buttons on the left to stop a category from changing when you press the randomize button. This is useful if you like part of a result but not the rest of it.

- Pressing the X buttons below the lock buttons will disable the display of that particular category so that you don't have to look at it.

- You can now also use the lock and disable functions by holding "L" or "X" on your keyboard, respectively, then pressing the 1, 2, or 3 keys.

- When you get a result you like then you can draw a picture about it or whatever it is you do.

- If you press "J" on your keyboard it will have an effect.

Hypothetical Questions You May Or May Not Have:

Q: "Can I use my results for blablablabla purpose?"

A: No I own all shapes and colors in the entire world. (This is a joke) (I do not care what you do.)

Q: "These adjectives are really unhelpful like what am I supposed to do with 'Ethical'???"

A: Out of concern for written language detracting from the vagueness of the rest of the results, some of the items in the word list were intentionally chosen to be slightly difficult to work with. (Not all of them though)

You can always lock the rest of the result and then regenerate the word, or just ignore the word part of the generation entirely. Who is going to stop you? Not me. I don't care.

Q: "There's a bug of some kind!?"

A: I honestly don't really know how that could have happened given how simple this thing is, but I guess if you describe it I can try to fix it...

Q: "There's not a Mac/Linux download?"

A: I don't have computers to test those on, so I couldn't be bothered...Just use the web version. Or if the download is really that important to you then you could try Wine, maybe. I don't know if that still works.

Q: "This isn't mobile friendly like at all? :("

A: I failed to think about this when setting up the UI...For now you may simply be out of luck, unless I decide to update this to reconstruct the UI to be more vertical, or otherwise make a mobile version.
One thing you can try is to put your mobile browser into desktop mode, and that probably still won't look right, but at least might make it possible for you to actually press the button...This isn't really a proper solution though and it might not work on your device, it's just the best I was able to manage in my testing.

Q: "I like the sound effects, where are they from?"

A: I had to phrase this in a strange way to get it to be a question! The sound effects are from Kenney's audio assets, I think specifically the Interface Sounds. They don't require attribution but I figured I should add a credit because people kept saying they liked the sound effects. ^^;