ToA - New Weekly Build! (v0.3.17.3) (Patreon)

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Hayooooooooooooooooooooo! New weekly!!!

This one is really exciting for us - for a while now we've been working on localization/internationalization support, and now that work is finally in the game! But first, new stuff.

We've added the Dullahan oral art, where our lovely hero blows the Dullahan while she affectionately looks on, resting her head on her own thigh. We've added new VFX for Ice spells, as well as retooled the way VFX were working to improve load times, reduce memory usage, and make adding new VFX easier. We also revised the Merchant/Shop music as part of that ongoing effort.

So, the internationalization stuff: we've done a ton of work to move all of the text in the game out of code files and into data files, and we can now dynamically pull that text and asset files from user-provided language packs, with safe fallbacks for untranslated text and assets. We've also added charset support for arbitrary charsets, so a Chinese or Japanese translation is now possible, among others. The last bit we're working on is better support for dynamic merges, so highly inflected languages can properly inflect and have grammatical agreement so that a native-level translation is possible. 

There might be some text glitches here and there from this, since there was a lot of moving parts to it, but hopefully we can clear any of those up ASAP and be back to parity, and English-only players won't notice anything at all.

If anyone is interested in doing fan translation and wants to talk with us about it, we're going to create a channel on our discord server for any questions, knowledge sharing, or updates about translation work! You can also message us here on Patreon if you have any questions.

As always, changelog is below, and convenience download link below that. Thanks for supporting us!

Version: 0.3.17.3 - 3rd February Weekly

New features:

• Added Localization support!
• - Almost all text in the game can now be translated without modifying the game files
• - This includes text that is baked into image files, though alternate image files need to be provided
• - If language packs are installed, can freely switch between language options
• Tied VFX to particular skills and improved load times with VFX

New content:

• Added new Dullahan Oral art!
• Updated Merchant music
• Added Ice VFX

Tweaks and bug fixes:

• Added stamina recovery in Bondage stance
• Minor text edits

Hi-Res Art and Tales of Androgyny Weekly Updates (Bunny Tier+) -

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