More Language Support
This one is huge for translations! So far, the community has made a Russian translation, and several people have started on a few other languages. But these were all the easy languages for me to add support for. All I had to do was add in the Russian alphabet and all the accented Latin letters to my pixel fonts. This wasn't too much work for me.
The real problems started when someone wanted to try translating everything into Chinese. There was no way I could make all the Chinese glyphs myself. So I had to implement a way for a Chinese font to be loaded in. The real problem starts when you realize that there are A LOT of Chinese glyphs. Without getting too deep into the programming side, this basically caused the game to lag just by scrolling through the collection menu. I had to go through the collection and most of the events and scenes in the whole game to optimize the way all the text was being drawn on screen. After all this work, the game will be able to support most languages now! Japanese and Korean are other examples of languages that can now be done by loading in fonts. This was a ton of work, so let's hope it ends up paying off!
Keep in mind, these are essentially community mods for now. No language will be officially supported until the game is done, because I am still writing, changing text, and updating the game so frequently. If you would like to try translating the game into another language, you can find out how to do it by joining the Discord. The invite link is in a pinned post in the steam discussion forum!
New Event
The new event is automatically unlocked, but it is exclusive to The Towers mode! There has been a change of plans for it's design. Initially, the plan was to create a single event that was similar to a bonding time event. It would serve multiple functions and have the complexity of Voltage Veyeral's event. Instead of that, I have decided to split that idea into several smaller events. This way, there can be multiple shorter events for The Towers instead of only a single one you would run into on almost every run.
Early Access updated game version to v8.10
Content Added
- 1 new event exclusive to the towers (Total: 50)
Updates and tweaks
- Custom languages now support importing any fonts allowing for translations to Chinese, Japanese, and many other languages
- Added support for ↑↓←→ arrows to my fonts
- Further optimized most text in the game
Bug Fixes
- Bug Fix: On controller, using the B button to leave the pause menu could use a panic attack if you held it too long. You must now let go of the button after unpausing before being able to panic again.
Upcoming Stuff
10 more bosses coming up in this order
- The Orange Heart
- The Purple Heart
- The Special Heart
- A Common Veyeral
- Shamble Tower Boss
- Guardian Tower Boss
- Glyph Tower Boss
- Zaramech Tower Boss
- Glass Flora Tower Boss
- Veyeral Tower Boss
11 story mode events hosted by monsters (not in order)
- Sandrome
- Voladrome
- Shanx
- Dendrohai
- Lavalin
- Chionotoh
- Ventra
- Dot
- Storm Veyeral
- Molten Veyeral
- The New Common Veyeral
I'll split up the events for other modes now that the tower one is divided into a bunch of smaller ones. The event for endless mode will be a simple one that will introduce shiny battles to the monster choices if you meet certain conditions.
5 events for other modes
- Towers: event similar to free gift event
- Towers: event similar to a trade
- Towers: event where you can choose to remove a burden
- Towers: different event with a minigame
- Endless Stress: shiny battle event
Now that all the optimization and language stuff is done, I want to focus on new events for the next update. I'm aiming for August 2nd for the next one!
Oh, one more thing. There were a few gifts with memories that said they would be added in v8.10, but I didn't get to them in time, so they have now been moved to up v8.11. Except I lied! They said coming soon v9.10! That wasn't a typo, I never make those! And I did it on purpose the whole time haha!
Thank you for playing!
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