Samga Cameo in Spiral Clicker in the Works, Starbreed Translation Components Done, and Another Ending Preview

Heyo everyone! There's a few things I wouldn't mind going over this week, I got the translations components done, and have been in communication with Changer for a cameo appearance in Spiral Clicker. AbsurdRes has also been cooking up a new CG for Starbreed's ending. Let's dive into everything here!

I'll start with the cameo appearance! For the past little while Changer and their team have been working on Samga's appearance in their game, Spiral Clicker. I say they've done a phenomenal job so far! The build is still in development, but they will have many more CGs, and are showcasing some on their pages.

Check out Changer's Posts Here:
Patreon

To give a quick preview, here's just a couple examples:

I'll be sure to check back again when their build with Samga is released!

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Now for the progress report on the translation side of things! To just give a bit of an idea, there is all the menus to go through, but also each Hscene.

Doing these components are simple enough, if not a grind to get through, but things start to get complicated when working with texts that are variables. Because of this, I needed to rewrite code in a way that compensates for it.

An example of this would be something like the Planet display on level completion:

The "CATIYA" here essentially rides right off static variables that are important to save data. (This exact variable is what's used to save flags, like high score, completion status, so I need to adjust the visual text without actually changing the variable.) It sounds a bit weird, and kinda hard to explain, but I essentially just had to write code to display something different. There are several instances in the game where I needed to change how text displays to ensure that translations would display without compromising variables. This wasn't unexpected by any means, it's just me explaining some of the process, and why it can take some time.

Overall, I have covered the first pass of the whole game. There is an incredibly high chance it won't all work like butter, but I'll probably be doing a 2nd pass next week to ensure it's all good, then send the documents off for translation.

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I also decided to take a bit of time to make a few fun changes to the Ending "Social Media" page.

The little "Trending" and "News window will now dynamically change depending on each character's state

I think this window can have a lot of fun potential to play with, which I would like to do given the time. I think it would be cool to click on each of these tags, and have a small feed of "Randomized" characters talking about the character/topic. I think it would be a neat way to convey what the universe/world thinks of each of your crew dependant on where they end up. It might be a bit overkill in terms of how technical the ending would be, but I kind of like toying with these nuances. Even in SpunkStock I probably did more "Ending" cases than necessary, even in extremely unlikely scenarios.

I have a small list of other things I'd like to add, but they are quite "Extra" so it's all time dependant.

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Another thing that has been in the works in the next ending CG by AbsurdRes. This one takes place in the brothel:

Alright! With that, what's on the menu for next week? I'm expecting some minor revisions to come back from a review. (To ensure the game is ready for Steam review). So working on those revisions, along with the 2nd pass/review of current translation components should eat up a bit of time. If I end up with time after/around this, I may start to go down my "Extras" List. This is a list I compiled over the course of development of things I'd like to add, or adjust, but were not essential(or were lower priority in general).

Anyways! Thanks everyone for the continued support in these later stages! I'll catch you all next week with the next progress report!

-Regulus