A Beastly DevLog: Apps For Days

[p]Welcome to our first Beastly DevLog! First we got a quick, exciting announcement... [/p][p]Two Beasts or not To Beast has just been approved for release on Steam! [/p][p][/p][p]While we smooth out any last sneaky bugs, we want to give all our wishlisters and patient fans a little sneak peak into our process of localizing this game into English, some extra snapshots of unique parts of the game, and introduce a few of the extra guest characters you might meet as you hop around town. Starting with…[/p][p][/p][h2]KnotsApp Messaging & Stickers![/h2][p]In today’s world we all spend the day staring at our phones, and our protagonist Haruki is no different. You’ll have access to a number of useful apps on Haruki’s phone, like a task list, map, a timer to “speed up” time, and the ever important music app to choose your soundtrack for the day.[/p][p][/p][p]One app Haruki will use frequently throughout the day is KnotsApp, where friends and new potential lovers will send him messages containing hints for a perfect study date, or to make their own sultry plans with him themselves. Our translators had some fun here figuring out how we thought each character would type and chat slang to use.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]And, what chat stickers with very short text and little context would mean in English while still being readable and fitting where the Japanese text was.[/p][p] Some of the stickers were simple and obvious. Our image editor had some fun finding just the right fonts, and adjusting the layout of text to be readable and fit horizontally…[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Some were a best guess or had some variations until we edited and checked them in-game, or needed shortening (or even lengthening) to fit nicely. These ones below especially took some time looking at synonyms to find just the right English word to get across the same concepts and formality...[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Or made more sense when we looked at them all together, and made sure they fit in their set, like these cute Rock/Paper/Scissors stickers...[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]Guest Character Spotlights[/h2][p]Meet Momo and Ohagi, two voluptuous babes, and horny drunks![/p][p]
[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Thanks for reading, until next time...[/p]