TL;DR: We are still working on new languages and full controller support, they should be there around December 🌻
Localizing a video game is a huge amount of work. Translating the texts is just a small part of it! You need to set up every sentence and every world in your game so it automatically translates, and now everything will be longer or shorter depending on the language so you need to make sure it always looks good by tweaking tons of parameters. Then of course it leads to new bugs so you need to test a lot and fix a lot. How about images with text in it? You need to redo those to, plus many other things that I won't list there.
Same goes for adding controller support to a game that was designed to be played with a mouse! It's not only a big design work but you really have to break everything and build it again.
On Minami Lane, I decided to take the months of work needed to do both on my own. I'm proud of what I did back then, but seeing how painful it was, I decided not to do it on Kabuto Park. Seaven Studio, who did an awesome work on porting Minami Lane to consoles, offered to do it for me so that they could then port the game to the Switch. I agreed, and we started working on it that way: I supervise, they implement, and LocQuest, a great localization company that we worked with on Minami Lane, does the translation and LQA (localization quality assurance).
That means less work on my side, so I could rest a bit more during summer, work on other projects like the Doot Tiny Grant, and I'm now starting to work on a new game with Blibloop. But that also means that it takes longer than if I did it myself! I hoped we could have something by now, but it's more likely going to be ready around December.
Thanks a lot for your patience, I'll keep you updated when I have more news 💌
Oh and also:
We hit 50k sales! WEEEEE this is incredible 🪲🥳🎉
Thank you so much everyone 💕
