I would cry if I wasn't sleep deprived. After working all weekend and a total of two hours of sleep this morning, Meltys Quest is pretty much feature completed. All the translations are done and inserted. The new game plus enemies are designed and implemented. Sachinama also finished doing the censors and uncensors for everything in record time.
If all goes well on Steam's end, as in they don't fail u...
2017-10-16 17:14:48 +0000 UTC View PostToday I finished translating, editing and inserting nearly everything, from Skills to Items databases, to non sex scene related Events. There's still three events and the Scene Mode to translate and insert.
After that, I gotta do the new game plus enemies, and then figure out to implement achievements, disable F5, and get the game onto Steam.
2017-10-14 03:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe latest version of the demo for Meltys Quest is now available! Click here for the link!
For first timers,
Click on the big yellow Try Free Demo button to download the demo on 2017-10-13 12:35:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Today, I finished editing and inserting text for all the maps. Now it's onto the rest of the stuff. I also spent a vast majority of the day updating the demos. Please don't play the demo until I make a new post announcing the new update.
Today I edited and inserted a bunch of maps, I don't know what the total is now or how much I did total today but there is about 12 or so big maps left to go
Meltys Quest now has a Steam Store page up!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/723090/Meltys_Quest/
The release date is tentatively set to October 24th.
The game isn't done yet, and there is a chance Steam might not like something during their review process which would set ...
2017-10-11 21:14:01 +0000 UTC View PostToday I edited and inserted 27 more maps, for a total of 57.
Also, the Steam store page for Meltys Quest is now up!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/723090/Meltys_Quest/
I'll make a public formal announcement tomorrow with more details and stuff when I'm not sleep deprived, but for the time being if you see this post, please do me a huge favor and tag the game as 'Anime'!
Today and yesterday, I've edited and inserted a total of 30 maps.
AAAAAAAAAAAH, progress is going really slowly for the map text. A hurdle that popped up while doing this is that it turns out Sachinama has been adding new text here and there, which isn't a bad thing of course, but it means that it's a setback in terms of having more things to translate. But I just gotta keep fucking pushing.
Today I finish editing and inserting the rest of the sex scenes. Then I spent the rest of the day completing all the enemy encounters for the the first playthrough. It's not really balanced yet, and there's no new game plus+ special encounters in the game yet, but the japanese version at this moment is more or less complete.
Anyway, I'm going to move on to editing and inserting the text for the maps next. According to the map IDs, there's 120 maps so that's the magic number. After maps a...
2017-10-08 01:47:52 +0000 UTC View PostToday I turned beast mode on, and edited and inserted 23 sex scenes. I should be finished with the sex scenes tomorrow.
Did some more enemy encounters and balancing. I did a recount of the total number of sex scenes edited so far, and either I miscounted before or I did a lot today. Either way, the total is now up to 28.
Today I spent a majority of the day balancing the stats of various costumes, accessories, skills and first half of the enemies and bosses. The equipment screen is expanded a bit, and the work for all the costumes should be finished now. I also edited and inserted three sex scenes.
So I'm gonna start off with some bad news first. This is mostly for my $10 patrons who knew about my initial planned release date for Steam. Sorry guys but it looks like that is gonna be impossible no matter what. I knew Steam required a store page to be publicly visible two weeks in advance, but while it seems obvious now, I didn't know Steam needed about three working days to review the store page first before it get be made public. Sooo, we're not going to make the initial release date I had ...
2017-10-04 02:16:13 +0000 UTC View PostMan, it's October! Anyway no translation report today, just a short progress report. Yesterday I think I edited and inserted four sex scenes. The rest of yesterday was spent on doing game balance. New skills, new game mechanics, setting stats for items etc.
And then today I spent most of the day talking with Sachinama, discussing the changes I made, discussing future changes needed, brainstorming changes, making sure we're both on the same page in terms of how we want Meltys Quest to look like...
2017-10-03 01:23:40 +0000 UTC View PostToday, I've finished translating everything Sachinama gave me so far. There's still some scenes to translate when he gives me a build with the remaining scenes. But until then, I'm going to begin the long road of editing and inserting everything into the game.
I'm going to start with all the sex scenes first. I've edited the six sex scenes from the demo, and edited and inserted three other sex scenes today.
Made quite a bit of progress, translated some loose ends, etc etc.
After the translation is finished, I will still need to edit it and insert it into the game. There's also the playtesting, gameplay balancing, the new game plus princess mode changes, etc etc. And of course, the debugging.
Still I'm really close now t...
2017-09-30 01:36:42 +0000 UTC View Post
God, it's already time to go to bed...
Anyway, I think I made good progress on Side Story D so far? It's not finished yet so it's hard to exactly judge how much I've done compared to how much is left. But I think by the end of tomorrow I will finish or be close to finishing all the material I received so far.
2017-09-29 02:01:28 +0000 UTC View PostMeltys Quest will release as scheduled on DLsite Ecchi on the month of October.
Furthermore, I am here to announce that Meltys Quest will be releasing worldwide on Steam.
The Steam version will be released after the DLsite version. The DLsite version will be priced at whatever 2000 yen will exchange into. The Steam version will be priced at $20.
The Steam version will feature achievements and heavier censorship of CGs. There will be a <...
2017-09-27 15:59:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Originally I was planning to get started on Side Story D today after finishing G, but Sachinama finished F today so I figure it's better to finish F off too.
And just in the nick of time, today I managed to finished translating F!
2017-09-27 02:19:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Damn, so close to 100%ing Side Story G too. Tomorrow work will begin on the massive Side Story D. I'm so close now!!!
2017-09-26 02:19:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I spent most of the day on fixing parts of the translation in the last dungeon I mentioned before that I wasn't satisfied with. It wasn't much but I also made some progress on Side Story F too.
2017-09-25 02:39:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I finished Side Story E. Sorry, but I can't give any more details than that since this is all endgame stuff and I want to avoid hinting at or giving spoilers. But I will say that the endgame stories wrap up nicely.
2017-09-24 01:21:31 +0000 UTC View PostToday I finished two short sex scenes. In terms of length, short sex scenes are about half the length of the other sex scenes.
In terms of translating, I'm at the final stretch now. The above side stories are basically all that remains. I'll bold which parts I've made progress on each day to make it easier to see.
I noticed that I've been getting very irritable lately. And I think that irritation stems from the stress of feeling the crunch of time. There's bills to pay so I want to get the game out as soon as possible, but I also don't want to put out a half ass translation, or worse, a half ass product. It's a completely different feeling when the responsibility isn't on someone else to shoulder.
It sucks, looking back I wish I translated the last dungeon faster by like at least a day or two. There's e...
2017-09-20 01:27:06 +0000 UTC View PostToday, I've finished a sex scene and made gotten 1/3 the way through the Goldol side story.
And I've also spent a lot of time thinking about design today. Currently, new game plus doesn't offer really any specific new challenges, and I want to change that. Expanding onto the Princess Mode difficulty setting, I plan to have Princess Mode make every enemy in New Game Plus an actual challenge against someone who is carrying over all their stats.
Now here is where I run into a game des...
2017-09-19 01:28:38 +0000 UTC View PostToday, I finished the sex scene from last night and a different sex scene. I'm now working on the GOLDOL side story, which is long, and long.
Did I mention long. Because by my count, its longest sex scene is twice as long as the longest sex scene in the demo, which is Gobbler's. But I eventually got through the last dungeon, so I'll get through this too.
Today, I finished translating all the completed endings so far. There's one ending remaining to translate but Sachinama hasn't finished finalizing it yet. Basically, at this point I'm mostly pushing up against content that is being written at the same time by Sachinama. There's some unique challenges with this type of stuff that you won't usually find in a normal translation project where you begin translating when everything has already been long finished and fully edited. But I took on this pr...
2017-09-17 00:23:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe last dungeon is now translated! There's still a small part that is untranslated because it's related to the ending sequence, and I'll definitely need to go back to edit some stuff later, but for the most part - IT'S TRANSLATED!!
I already began translating one of the endings. I'll probably do a few endings first before swinging back to working on the character sex scenes. But first, I'm going to take a few hours break today. We're making progress boys!!!