fvlaenix

Progress Report. (Patreon)

Published:

2025-08-17 15:27:14

Imported:

2026-09

Content

Hello everyone!

Warning: an increased number of cringey memes are expected.

Horizon 1. The Gallery.

The number of different events that are triggered in the battle with Maven. This is just a part of it; you can see the image's scrollbar at the bottom. This is just one character, and there are more of them.

In short, this was too ambitious.

I had an old version of the gallery, but it was incomplete. Now that I've taken a closer look at everything, I'm facing a major problem: there are too many scenes. Each one needs to be found, tested, and named. So I decided to automate this a bit, but it's proving difficult.

I was hoping to get this done by the 20th-25th of August, but I'm not managing it. Unfortunately, it's still in a very raw state. Nothing has been tested; I'm just creating the search algorithms, which are quite complex (they involve decoding the game, navigating it in a tricky way, and so on).

Horizon 2. Improving Translations.

I tried to process the best options that exist on the most expensive models, thinking it would be a quick job… But now I'm worried that if they win, the translation will end up costing me hundreds of dollars.

A short theatre play titled "How to Spend $2 on Translating a Small Snippet of a Scene." Expect a new play: "How to Spend $200 on a Demo for a Single Game Translation."

Advanced language models are very good at understanding when they're being forced to do something wrong.

At the moment, the demo version is ready, along with the translation in several versions. For now, I'm planning how exactly this will all work. Besides, it turned out to be quite expensive. Of course, work on this will continue. I will try to get it done before the F11 release, because if I don't, the translation will have to be delayed.

Horizon 3. New Projects.

I'm currently working on two big projects at once, but unfortunately, I'm completely short on time, so they're on pause for now. One of them is quite creative, while the second has pushed my programming skills to the absolute limit. All in all, both of them are a cut above anything I've done before. But they are progressing extremely slowly, and I'm very disappointed in myself.

One day, there will be a separate progress report for them, but for now, I have nothing to show.