So someone asked if the Virgins Protection Magic translation was still being worked on in the comment, which is a polite way of asking "Are you dead?"
Well, I'm not dead.
There has been lots of trials and tribulations though. I'm a bit more active on the forums at ULMF due to Blogger being a kinda poor platform in a lot of ways (i.e. not pleasant to use). I made a long post on my current situation there, and it's certainly worth a copy and paste here:
It's been a hectic month or so due to employment
issues. As of a couple of weeks ago, I was made part time (thanks,
Brexit! I'm an academic, and there is evidence showing academia has already seen a direct, negative consequence of the vote.
I'm not sure if it would have helped my specific case had the vote gone
the other way, but it certainly couldn't have hurt.) I've already
reduced my costs, but I still need to find some other way of generating
money or things will get tricky.
Is this a plea for donations? Categorically No. Leaving aside the
fact that I do not solicit donations for my fan translation works due
to the ethics of doing so, there's the practical aspect: Donations won't
solve the problem, they'd only prolong the amount of time I could go
between full-time jobs. And, to be honest, my current experience with
donations is that they really don't amount to that much - I can reveal
that since 2011, I've received about $250 in donations for RPGMaker
Trans, which won't cover a single months rent in the UK. It's a good
thing it's a passion project, not a commercial one.
What this is notification of is that things are very hectic for me at
the moment. I have no idea on how much time I will be able to dedicate
to translation. Progress could be faster, slower, or wildly oscillating.
I would certainly like to have the next version of the patch done by
Christmas, but again this is an aspiration, not a timetable.
And as to where I am personally: don't worry too much about me. I'm
fortunate in that I've got about 4-months of "rainy day" money, and I am
still earning some from the part-time work I have. I estimate I've got
about 7-8 months to find an alternate source of money before I start to
have issues, which is way, way more than most people who find themselves
having their employment status being altered. In short: There is a
problem upcoming for me, but it's still some way off.
With regards to the patch itself: my tools put the patch at being 76% complete at the present time. I don't yet have all the tools I need to do the quality checking though, so the release has been postponed while I implement them. Quality checking includes quite important stuff like checking to see if translations go out of box, spelling etc. so I'm unwilling to release an unedited patch. But expect the next release to contain the complete game up to the end of Act 4, including all H-scenes in Alchester and Frisbee.
As to ongoing progress... as I've said, it's going to be a bit hectic. The
Stream on Assembla is a good source for updates, so if you want to check the heartbeat of the project, head over there (although note that the timestamps are when I push the changes up to Assembla, and not the actual timestamps).
Due to the general crummyness of Blogger, I'm currently looking at creating an actual website for this project, as well as a bunch of other stuff. If all goes well, that should be done before Christmas, but I've made promises of this nature before and they've lapsed.
Anyhow... congrats on reading this far I guess.
