First off, thank you for sticking around all this time. It really does mean a lot. It's fans like you that make me want to keep going and not just abandon the project.
So, to address your question:
The project is currently stalled, and it is entirely my fault. I have been incredibly busy with school and work over the past year, maybe longer. My classes got a lot more difficult and time-consuming, and I got promoted at my job, which took away a lot more of the free time I had to work on the project. I have been wrangling with depression and anxiety, too, and it's really killed my drive to do any work on this project, even when I do have some free time. I know at this point I'm probably just making excuses, but I am very disappointed in myself for not being more diligent about working on the project.
Here is what has been done so far and needs to be done:
- About 95% of the graphics have been translated and inserted; the last 5% are graphics that appear when you unlock a new character, and some other miscellaneous texts.
- Another big thing about graphics, however, is that some of them need to be re-aligned after they've been translated. This requires modifying the game's asm code, which is a very tedious task (but, thanks to my schooling in Computer Science, it's more doable for me now). Text realignment will take a lot of work, but I feel that it is necessary in order to make the game look and feel polished. After all, some of the misaligned text shows up very frequently.
- There is a short video that plays in the intro scene that contains a hell of a lot of Japanese text. This can be seen at 2:50 in this video. The text is an in-depth description of the game's rules and mechanics. I want to translate it, but I'd need to finish transcribing it, which is difficult because the video quality is horrible. Then I need to figure out how to create a translated video and convert it to the proper format (I've looked into this before and it is NOT easy
). I've transcribed maybe half of it?
- All of the scripts for the story mode and board game have been "translated," but most of them still need to be revised to not sound engrish-y.
- Only Akihisa's story, Mizuki's story and the prologue have been revised and inserted.
- There is one line in Akihisa's story that I need to have looked at by someone fluent in Japanese.
- Half of Shouko's story has been revised. A bit of Kouta's and a bit of Yuuko's stories have been revised. None of these have been inserted.
- Everyone else's stories need to be revised and inserted. The epilogue needs to be revised and inserted.
- Akihisa's board game dialogue and the Principal's board game dialogue has been revised and inserted. Everyone else's needs to be revised and inserted.
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