Hi everyone, welcome to another week's developer's diary.
This week, the Steam Workshop functionalities keep expanding beyond mere graphics overwrite.
From a tech point of view, the game can now accept community localization mods.
As proof of technology, a localization template mod has been set up in the workshop.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2712267894
Although I know little about Japanese, French, German, Russian, and many other languages, with a bit of Google Translation, the mod can demonstrate some results on the UI. It shall likely support making mods for most of the languages on earth except a few languages such as Arabic and Uyghur. Depending on the demand of those languages, maybe I can also try to come out with some solutions late. But, for now, that concludes my efforts on supporting community localization mods. If there are any bugs, I will also update the template mod accordingly just as I fixed a few bugs in the Japanese template this week.
The second big part of this week's updates is more food. A sushi bar and a bakery are open in the town of Liu. There are 5 variations of sushi and the new alcoholic drink, sake sold in the sushi bar. Meanwhile, the bakery is a bit different, it mostly just sell baguettes. The Baguette that people can eat, the Baguette that people can use as weapons, the Baguette that can shoot lightning, the Baguette can help pick locks, the Baguette that can make people believe whatever you told them, the Baguette that can do a lot of interesting things thanks to our prefix system. Basically, from a tech point of view, we get a Baguette food and a Baguette weapon while the Baguette weapons can also have prefixes on them. Furthermore, the Baguette weapon can be turned into Baguette food in case anyone is hungry. It's a bit chaotic. But, it feels quite fun in a messed up world with all the magic and unspeakable horrors. :)
Next up is the further subdivide in speech skills. Based on community feedback, the speech skill is now a group of skills of Intimidation, Persuasion, Deception, and Seduction. The previous speech skill is working as a base to affect all the 4 sub-skills. However, each of those 4 new skills can also have modifiers on them to further indicate a character's skills in their respective fields of work. For example, you can hardly use a zombie to seduce a human who does not like undead creatures. But, instead, our zombie friend can be quite Intimidate to the same human. It brought a bit more diversity to solve different problems in this world. But, they may have different consequences. For example, threatening a poor guy who just lost his job to pay up his bill may have a negative impact on karma while nicely convincing them does not; A failed attempt to seduce a police officer may only make them a bit displeased while a failed attempt to intimidate them may make them shoot you immediately.
We also have a bit of story content update, involving the beggar gang faction in Liu. Their leader finally appeared with unsettled grudges with the local dragon organization (though, he admits dragons do not all fly the same color.) The homeless people in the sewer are under his de-facto protection. Thus, killing them may now have some negative consequences.
His appearance can also be used on a male player character.
That's for this week.
Although the stock market is not in its best performance recently, some legal businesses are waiting for me to address, Shanghai is under the attack of another wave of COVID mini-breakout, it's likely going to be a busy week next week, I will try to limit their negative impact on the game development.
See you around. :)
Today's changelog:
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New background music for Liu's sewer.
New NPC: The Beggar King. (More stories later.)
You can now directly choose to go back to the town from the exit of the Beggar Gang's Camp.
After you meet the beggar king, you can also go directly to the Beggar Gang's camp from the entrance of the sewer.
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The game will now start to track the relationship between you and the beggar gang. Killing homeless people in the sewer has a negative impact.