LOCALIZATION & RELEASE DATE

It's time!

After noticing a decent demand for certain languages localization, I decided to start working on them for you!

My thought process was that having some translation as soon as possible is better than having no translation at all. This decision will prevent the accumulation of a bajillion words to be translated in the future on a super giga daunting task of hell, so instead we will do it right now and continue doing it brick-by-brick, chapter-by-chapter translation moving forward, like an extra homework ritual routine to be done before every release.

This is an early test of localization and some of these languages will be auto-generated to make sure I'm able to support them all long-term without pushing the release dates too far away on every single new chapter I ever write in the future.

As a native brazilian portuguese speaker, I'll be able to do line-by-line manual translations, with polished curated nuances and fun cultural references (like "Kid Bengala" ou "talarico"). After that, for all the other languages, I'll rely on you guys to tell me if the generated translations came out any good or nah.

When this new version comes out please let me know if you find anything too weird as you play it, and we can start polishing from there. I'll rely on this community to improve the localization, and we can have fun together adding unique cultural nuances when appropriate if you find any opportunity to do that. 

These are the languages that will be available on the next update:

• English 

• Brazilian Portuguese 

• Mexican Spanish

• German

• French

• Russian

• Korean

• Japanese

• Simplified Chinese

​That's a total of 9 languages, wowie!

RELEASE DATE

The development of Chapter 4 is going super well and we are still chilling with the initial promise of 1-2 months release window. Now with the bulk of 8 new localization work in mind, including UI changes, QA testing and coding to make it happen, this is my current estimation for the release date:

• 2 October, Friday

• 17:00–20:00 UTC (roughly 14:00–17:00 BRT) 

On this date, the current private version will become free to the public on itch and a completely new succulent chapter will become playable in early access for supporters.

That means 3 weeks from now and exactly 2 months from the previous update release date, so we can keep that promise in check as long as real life doesn't interfere. I'll work my hardest to make sure I meet this deadline without sacrificing my real life work and sleep schedule.

My main goal is to make sure Chapter 4 doesn't come out undercooked as a compromise. I'll give you more rewards, devlog updates and early peeks as we approach this date.

This release date will give me enough time to implement all the localization and line-by-line curated portuguese translation, as well as mega polish Chapter 4 out the wazoo.

Thank you so much for your support!

Ps. Please make sure to let me know if you want another language to be included so I can start considering it.