Weekly progress report (continuing localization prep) + Info about next community recolor poll (Patreon)

Hey everyone! Sorry this post is a little later than intended, I had a lot of little things come up the past few days and I've just been feeling a bit overwhelmed, so this post ended up delayed a tad. The good news is, it wasn't because last week was bad productivity wise; I'm actually quite happy with it! I didn't work as many days as I would've liked, but the days I did get work done were very productive compared to usual, so I count it as a win overall.

That being said, there's not a ton for me to talk about today. I've been continuing to focus on prepping the ingame text for localization, which is a slow but necessary job. All of the menus are done, and I'm nearly finished with all of the mid-gameplay environmental conversations, so after that I think it's just the major cutscenes and maybe a bit of misc text here and there. Since I'll be starting on the cutscene text soon, I'll also be starting work on the new/altered cutscene stuff to go with the rewrite. I'm still waiting on some recordings from our VAs, but there's still plenty of work left before the next update is ready to release, so I don't think missing voicework will end up being a hindrance at all.

Here's our daily updates for last week:

So, I said we were going to start the next community recolor this week, and we will, but I think we're going to do things a little differently for the starting point. We almost ended up with 3 "light skin" recolors last time, and I think that's kinda boring, so with this round of recolors we're going to start with skin color, and instead of having you vote for which shade you want, we're going to skip the initial voting stage, and start the poll in the middle of the week with one of the variant polls, featuring one light, one medium, and one dark skin tone.

Once we have the base skin color decided on, we'll start doing votes for the remaining colors, just like last time, with the one change that I'm going to host all future polls on Patreon and Discord simultaneously. This will allow folks to vote twice if they really want to put in the effort, but I think including a larger part of the community in the recolor polls is worth the tradeoff! Worst case scenario, we can make future Patreon polls be Patron-only, so only patrons get to vote twice, but for now I'm just going to keep them public when possible so we can include as much of the community as possible.

And that's all I have for today! Thanks for sticking with us during this period; I know things are a little boring right now, what with all the dull logistical work, but I think it's best to handle all of this right now instead of holding off til later. Even if we can't currently handle any official translations, the sooner we implement localization support, the sooner any dedicated fans can start working on their own fan translations, which is just great for everyone.

Anyways, thank you all for reading, and we'll see you again in a day or two with the skin color variant poll and the start of the second round of community recolors!