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Dear Devere Now Has a Simplified Chinese Translation (Version 1.3 Updates)
[ 2021-08-16 00:04:13 CET ] [ Original post ]
I'm very excited to make a new announcement: Dear Devere now has a Simplified Chinese translation!
I'm been working with the translation team EchoriverTranslators. The translation is purely for text: It translates the in-game and menu text, and keeps the English voice acting for all the lines.
Version 1.3 of Dear Devere includes not only this new language option, but also tweaks some interface and typo issues. I've listed all changes below:
Edits Specifically Regarding the Translation:
- Added Language setting to the Settings menu. Includes English and Simplified Chinese (S Chinese).
- Settings Screen: When the game's language is set to S Chinese, the OpenDyslexic and Dejavu Sans font options are replaced with S Chinese-compatible fonts.
- Credits: Credits screen and animated credits now include credit to the translation team.
- In-Game: S Chinese translation includes alt text descriptions that translates the text in the artwork.
- Main Menu: Added an alternate main menu image that adds a translation of the game's title directly below the English title.
- Edited the programming I used for the Main Menu's buttons to fix a text alignment issue when you hover over the text buttons (I'm really happy I was able to figure out how to solve this issue, EEEEEEEeeeeee).
- In-Game: Fixed an issue that centred the text alignment of the textbox's mini menu buttons (located directly to the right of the textbox). This is not noticeable for players using default text, but helps with text placement for those who use alternate font options in the Accessibility menu.
- Setting Screen: Added a text button that makes it easier for players to open the Accessibility screen.
- Return Button: Edited text alignment (not noticeable for players who use the default font settings, but useful for players who edit the font in the Accessibility menu).
- Help Screen: Fixed text alignment issue in the Help screen that used to appear when the player had a gamepad plugged in.
- Help Screen: Fixed text alignment issues. Moved the "V" button info to the bottom of the page as a work-around to help resolve the issue.
- Credits: Declared the title of the game in the animated credits earlier, rather than under the init line (this visually doesn't affect anything on the player's end. It just ensures that the game recognises to display the translated title of Dear Devere when the language is set to S Chinese.
- Version of the game updated from 1.2 to 1.3. The Steam version has been updated to 1.3.5 due to the Steam version requiring different credits.
- New build of the game has been made with an updated version of the engine Ren'Py (version 7.4.8.1895).
- Log Screen: Added a "substitute False" line to the script of the game's Log screen to make the game compatible with an update of Ren'Py (Version 7.1.1-onward).
- Font Files: Changed the font file name from BASKVILL.TTF to BASKVILL.ttf (uncapitalised file name extension) to make the font file more recognisable when zipped.
- Font Files: Removed fonts that weren't used in any released version of the game (these fonts simply came with the GUI template).
- Inconsistency issue fixed: Changed the two instances of "1937, Scotland" to "Scotland, 1937" so that the formatting of all the titlecards are all consistent.
- "Skakespeare" (with two Ks) fixed to "Shakespeare" in the alt text (for players who turn on self-voicing in the Accessibility menu) in Act 2. (Artwork was kept as is because I don't like how changing the k to an h makes the lines no longer parallel.)
- "Bond fire" changed to "bon fire" during Act 3.
- The was an extra space between the words "ancient temples" in the Epilogue. Extra space now removed.
- One instance of the word "by" in the Credits screen was missing the letter b (showing up as just "y"). Now fixed.
- Typo in the Easter Egg file fixed.
- Windows version now also includes a 32-bit option.
[ 2021-08-16 00:04:13 CET ] [ Original post ]
Dear Devere
Jasmine Osler
Developer
Jasmine Osler
Publisher
2020-05-29
Release
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🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🕹️ Partial Controller Support
🕹️ Partial Controller Support
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- Dear Devere Depot Linux [235.9 M]
Dear Devere is a visual novel told through letters.
"I suppose I should start with a short summary of my life. I don't really feel like doing that, so I shall skip to the present."
The year is 1935. It all started with a single letter. But from that point on, nothing would remain the same for Angela Bard--a quiet, solitary woman living in the Scottish isles.
Much to her surprise, she receives a mysterious and strangely esoteric reply from an unexpected source...
Who is Devere? And how can he be sending letters from the forest at the edge of Angela's town?
Read through their illustrated correspondence, and watch their story unfold.
"I suppose I should start with a short summary of my life. I don't really feel like doing that, so I shall skip to the present."
The year is 1935. It all started with a single letter. But from that point on, nothing would remain the same for Angela Bard--a quiet, solitary woman living in the Scottish isles.
Much to her surprise, she receives a mysterious and strangely esoteric reply from an unexpected source...
Who is Devere? And how can he be sending letters from the forest at the edge of Angela's town?
Read through their illustrated correspondence, and watch their story unfold.
Features
- Voice acting for the leads.
- Examine an array of letters, postcards, and other documents.
- Multiple endings.
- Open Dyslexic font option.
- Self-voicing and descriptive text toggle.
- Text-to-speech voice mode.
Team
- Katy133 ....... Writer, Artist, Programmer
- Chintarmanya Vivian ......... Voice of Angela
- Mike Young ......... Voice of Devere
- Paul Robins ......... Musician
- Sarah S ......... SFX Artist
- HusbandoGoddess .......... Proofreader, Playtester
- Rawon .......... Proofreader
- Natasha .......... Proofreader
- Jacob Lunn .......... Playtester
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- OS: Linux x86/x86_64
- Processor: 1 GHzMemory: 520 MB RAMStorage: 520 MB available space
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