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🖤 Episode 2: Dark Whispers — Final Update

[p]Here's a quick animation from EP2 (out of the ~300 animations...sorry we decided to do a few more than 250)[/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p]Hey everyone,[/p][p]We are close. Really close.[/p][p]Here's where we stand:[/p][hr][/hr][p]🎬 ANIMATIONS — less then 100 animations TO GO[/p][p]We are sitting at roughly 300 animations completed and closing fast. About 100 remain — that's 2-3 days of work at our current pace. Two scenes left to close out and that chapter is done.[/p][p]The animation work in this episode is on another level compared to Episode 1 — more expressive, more cinematic, more of what you asked for. And yes, we keep adding more as we move scene to scene. When something deserves it, it gets it.[/p][p]For those wondering where the time goes — animation in the AI era is not a one-click process. For every animation you see in the game, we generate 5-8 attempts that do not make the cut. To deliver ~300 animations, we generate closer to 1,000. Each one is a cycle of generate, evaluate, tweak, generate again — until it is right. It is time-consuming, it is iterative, and the results speak for themselves. We are not cutting corners to ship faster.[/p][hr][/hr][p]🖼 BY THE NUMBERS[/p][p]2,130 images. ~300 animations.[/p][p]To put that in perspective — most full commercial visual novels on Steam ship at 1,500 images total. Episode 2 alone surpasses that. This is the most ambitious thing we have built and it shows.[/p][hr][/hr][p]🌍 TRANSLATIONS — 11 LANGUAGES READY[/p][p]11 languages are tested and ready to ship. We are actively looking for a French translator — if we find the right person in time, French ships with the release. If not, we will use a carefully reviewed AI translation as a placeholder and update it the moment a human translator is on board. We'd rather be honest about that than pretend otherwise.[/p][p]Two additional languages — Romanian and Ukrainian — are in progress but will not be included in the Episode 2 launch. They are coming. Just not on this timeline.[/p][hr][/hr][p]✨ NEW: AN EXTRA CHOICE[/p][p]We added a new player choice that we are genuinely excited about. No extra rendering, no extra scenes — just a smarter branch that gives you more agency over how a key moment plays out. It rewards players who pay attention and fits the story naturally. We wanted to give you more options and this felt like exactly the right moment.[/p][hr][/hr][p]📋 WHAT'S LEFT[/p]
  • [p]Animations: ~100 remaining · 2-3 days[/p]
  • [p]GUI: thumbnails, portraits, small polish · 1-2 days[/p]
  • [p]Final QA · 1 day[/p]
  • [p]French translation: in progress[/p]
[hr][/hr][p]🗓 ETA: 5–7 DAYS[/p][p]That is the honest number. Translation is the one variable we don't fully control — everything else is on schedule and moving fast.[/p][hr][/hr][p]💬 A WORD ON REVIEWS[/p][p]We have seen some reviews picking apart small details and we want to address that directly — not defensively, just honestly.[/p][p]2,130 images. ~300 animations. 11 languages. Branching paths. Voice direction. More hours of content than most full commercial releases. It is easy to find one frame in 2,130 that isn't perfect. We know that. We also know that the players who follow Sofia's story all the way through — who sit with it — feel the difference.[/p][p]We build this for them. And for you.[/p][p]Episode 2 is almost in your hands. Thank you for waiting. We appreciate you waiting and I we are very close, our team is doing all they can to release asap.[/p][p]— Greuceanu Heavy Industries 🖤[/p]