We will not break!
Good day to you, our dear Patrons.
Unfortunatelly, we have some sad new for you. It's about game release.
We've made a stable build, but leaving 2016 year got another surprise for us.
We've lost a translator. And now we are left with the ruins (not whole game thankfully, just translation).
My bad we didn't noticed it earlier, but what doesn't kill us only makes us stronger.
In case you're interested in our internal kitchen, here's what happened:
We gave whole text to our translator in the begining of December.
He assured me that he'll be able to finish work in time. But then he started to disappear for couple of days.
When I've managed to catch him online, he assured that situation is stable and work is in progress.
And surprisingly today (December 29th) he wrote that he quits and what is more terrifying - that he didn't even started!
That's my fault obviously, 'cause I've hired him in first place, but noone is insured that this won't happen.
So we kicked out his lazy butt, and now we are searching for a new translator. It would take some time.
Yet we work on translation right now - one of our artist volunteered to do this job.
We'll keep you in touch for latest news. Of course we (and you too obviously) would like to see all of this did not happen.
We really wanted to release new version this year, but we won't be discouraged and will not lay down arms.
While game is translating, we'll take some advantage from this situation and add some features that we wanted to add, but had to delay them to next update due to lack of time. We don't want this year to end up like this, but it already happened and we have to look forward. We sincerely apologize if we did not meet your expectations!
Sincerely,
Shadow Portal Team
Comments (12)
One more thing. is the game only a demo or is there a full game? Cuz when i did the Diary event, it says "Unavailable In Demo Version"
At now this game just demo version.
May i ask when is the next update?
Our artist is translating dialogs now. As soon as he finishes, i will say to you. After the translation is done I need 2 days to make it fully done.
we know you guys trying your best here so don't worry just give us something worth it later after all result are all the things matter anyway thanks for yall hard work guys can't wait to see next one comming
What language are you translating from? I am assuming to english. :)
Hi, Russian-English
Yeah, this kind of thing happens when you're working with people online, unfortunately. It's why I tend to rely on myself so much these days. But keep communicating with patrons and working on the stuff you can continue to develop right now and you'll be fine.
I can't click on the menu bar after launching the game. Any ideas why?
It's RPG maker engine game. You have to use arrow keys instead of mouse.
Everything will be fine. Translator has come and gone, but the game remained. The main thing do not give up. I wish you good luck in the new year. 💖
Yep. This *%° can happen. Main point is, in my opinion, that you commicated this (as you have) and that you look that this don't jeopardized the project it all. So good luck for the future and hope you it works better in 2017 than 2016.