Progress report for August 2024

Last month's report was combined into this month.

Astralaria

We have made quite a few class mods, but we still encountered a lot of problems when actually making map.

We have spent most of these two months gathering feedback and constantly revising various issues with the first beta dungeon of Astralaria. The current beta only includes 1 replayable map, 10 trinkets, and 6 new enemies.

Also, as mentioned before, we have adjustments to our translators. I've received questions about two previous classes missing words in their translations.

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    1 September 2024

    We have updated the translation file today

    Floss: https://www.patreon.com/posts/98009482

    Ailuoli: https://www.patreon.com/posts/108844169

I am currently in the process of contacting professional foreign language school students to work on the translations, and as soon as we have confirmed our working relationship, we will begin translating the missing parts of the previous translations. Hopefully, this will result in a better and more stable localised text.

I was actually going to wait until the translation of the current, more stable version of the Astralaria test dungeon was complete before posting the August work report, but apparently I haven't waited for the day when the translation is complete, so I have to go ahead and send out the work report now. We should have this part of the translation done by the first few days of September.

You should be able to notice that the images of the monsters are different from the ones previously released. We've actually stylised almost all of the illustrations to make them more in line with DD's art environment.

Actually, they're still not that ‘fundamentalist’ now, but I think the style is interesting.

Here's a screenshot of a portion of the folder of material we've completed so far (of a portion of the screenshot), let me explain. Here's a display of the enemy material, meaning there are a total of 23 new enemies and 4 new bosses.

The map will have five areas in total, with one boss for each new area except the first one.

As said before, we plan to update once a month and aim to finish this part of the replica towards the end of the year. At the same time, art materials are being prepared for the main Astralaria content to ensure that we can begin work on the core content as soon as we finish these current sections.

In fact, the part we're currently working on is sort of Astralaria's extra content. I chose to do this part first mainly because I wanted to familiarise myself with the crafting process and avoid the problem of repeated reworks in important major dungeons, and it's proving to be quite useful.

Also, because of the lag in translations, patreon releases will always wait until our local beta has stabilised before being translated and uploaded. We have a limited number of members, so please understand.

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New Class

Mystic

Work continues on the Mystic, and the artist plans to allocate more work time over the next month to finish illustrations as soon as possible.

Aeon

I regret to inform you that Aeon's current work has stopped and the artist is unable to continue contributing for personal reasons.

YueZhu

In order to fill Aeon's work cycle, we've re-planned new characters.YueZhu is a new class featuring Whitesnake and hand-held lamp.

Although the project has just been confirmed for about two weeks, this artist is more efficient and I think we should see the finished product relatively soon ......

There are a few other characters that weren't the main recommendation but have been completed that haven't made it to you yet due to translation issues.

Asti

The King of Delay returns once again to his loyal darkest dungeon!

The illustrator of warlock class brought in his new character, Asti, and I brought in his drafts for you guys to check out first.

*class will not include the Sea Dragon form.

The good news is that he's sure to finish the painting, the bad news is that there's no telling when he'll finish it.

...... The jokes stop here, let me be serious, he should finish it faster this time, I will supervise the work and make sure he can finish the job effectively.

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Peripheral Gifts

Unfortunately, I don't have the energy to send items overseas and I don't understand shipping costs.

I've put together a free subscription gift for fans in mainland China, consisting of a folio card, a sheet of letterhead, three different stickers and a fire-painted stamped envelope with DD's iconic Iron Crown on it.

Yes, it's the Lilith class trinket, the letter. Though it may not look the same ......

Let me translate what's on the letterhead for you.

Writing is just a pain in the arse!

But it's too far away to use telepathy.

Don't tell anyone, especially Tiamat, about my secret letters, okay? Otherwise I won't be able to control how hard I hit you next time. (I don't translate well. The original text here also has a sexual connotation.)

Don't forget the dating and come to my room when you have time.

Don't be late! Don't let anyone know!

Deovolente is the real name of the character lilith class. My id as author is GhastRiv ...... Sometimes people get the two confused.

I've uploaded the art materials as attachments, or you can print them yourself if you want.

The text on the envelope was handwritten and came from a female PhD in Mathematics from a leading university. She was also a cosplayer in the last chrono ark character, and one of the art participants in the Astralaria mod.

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Have a good day. See you next month.