It really does mean the world to me to see people enjoying the game. Thank you so much for your time and your support every time. I'll update you all again when the update to the Japanese text for chapters 1 and 2 and the new casting call for chapter 5 are ready. I don't have a whole lot to offer in return other than my gratitude and the promise that chapter 5 will be the strongest yet. If you'd like to throw some extra support at The Hayseed Knight, I'm currently passing the tip jar around and trying to gather some help on patreon. In the long run, however, that's an incredible blow to my budget and therefore my ability to make anything after this. I've been developing the game for six years, and I've had time to learn not to break the entire bank for an update. In the immediate term, I should be able to face that cost. This time, however, I have but two months to save close to 5k USD. The way things usually go, I would spend years saving for new chapters, pinching coins wherever I can from my day job and patreon, and then build a voice acting budget from that. Since this is the last chapter, I decided to go all out and make something I would be proud of for years to come! Let me zoom in on that last bit about voice acting first, however: with a large word count comes a large voice acting expense. That's right - if everything goes well, I'll be recording in May, and hoping to release chapter 5, THE LAST CHAPTER at the same time as the epilogues, in September 2023. I only have two months to save for the voice acting.I'm maybe two months away from recording this script (would be one, but I'll be in Japan in April making business contacts!).There's a new casting call on the way for the remaining characters.If you did, you're a bit sharper than me, and I'm proud of you.īe that as it may, I'm now sitting on the 50k+ word count for chapter 5 (I don't know what it is about that number but this keeps happening to me somehow) and facing three incredible facts: You may have realized that, perhaps, slicing the original plan for chapter 4 in half and having nearly 20k words written by your past self would help in the process. Chapter 5 is pretty nearly written by now! Far, FAR faster than I expected. To everyone's surprise, and mine's first of all. The "oh no, what if I run out of energy", "this writing sucks, what am I even doing" and who can forget the eternal "am I allowed to take so much as a break?" If you've ever had a project that ran on updates, you know what that's like - the fear of keeping people waiting. Welcome once more to: episodic releases and the fear they instill within my very soul. Going back to chapter 5, though! The current casting call is now live until May 6th 2023! Check it out and take a look at a few of the characters yet to come!Ĭhapter 5 continues advancing, and I'll keep writing during my trip! Remember that you can help finance the voice acting for a faster release sending a tip on patreon [I think that should be everything for now, thank you all so much for your time! Have a lovely rest of your month! Localization QA is still ongoing and the Japanese editor, Chisato-san, really wanted to make sure it was in perfect condition before it was released. The update itself contained small fixes in English to typos and such, but the major update was on revising the current Japanese translation. On the matter of Japanese, in fact: the next significant update, 1.7.1, has sadly been postponed until May. It's my first time there, and it's going to be 30 hours of a journey. How are you all doing this April? I'm a little freaked out because I'm off to Japan tomorrow.
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