I've just pushed out an update containing a little fix to the XP system. It would seem there was an issue related to Custom Mode that could cause your XP to completely reset, and I think I've fixed that now. I think :)

Apologies if you were affected by that!

As always, if you have any feedback or encounter any problems, please do not hesitate to let me know. And feel free to come and say hello on the Wrongworld Discord[discord.gg], although I haven't found much time recently to get on there myself!

The German, Dutch, Russian and Japanese versions of Wrongworld are now live!

I've had the beta running for the last few weeks and there haven't been any major problems with the translations reported, so, fingers crossed, it'll all make sense to native speakers of the above languages... As I only speak English, it's pretty difficult for me to know! :)

If anyone does spot any problems with the non-English versions - typos, grammatical errors, font problems etc. - just let me know and I'll get them fixed.

I've also updated the Steam store page to support the above languages, although the vast majority of that text has been translated using Google Translate, so I'm sure there'll be all kinds of problems and weird wording, but hopefully it'll mostly make sense! Same as above: if anyone spots any issues with the translated store page, just let me know and I'll update it ASAP.

Huge, never-ending thanks to all the people that helped with the translations. I'm so grateful to you guys :)

Some more details about the update:


----- LANGUAGE SETTINGS MENU -----
When you first boot up the game after downloading this update, the game will ask you what language you want. If you want to change it at any point after that, you can use the new Settings > Language menu to change it, although it requires a game reboot to take effect.

The save slot text isn't automatically updated when you change language - that text is actually set using whatever language you had selected when the game was saved - but it'll update to the currently selected language whenever the save is updated.


----- RANDOM UPDATES/FIXES -----
- Fixed an issue with things not resetting properly if you died while in a cave but were resurrected by a Cloning Station.
- Added subtitles to the robot boss.
- Changed the font in a few places to help with the non-English language versions, and also just because I think it looks nicer :)
- Updated the credits to thank some of the people who massively helped out with the translations, although I'm sure I've forgotten a bunch of people! If you're one of those people, get in touch.
- Updated a lot of the UI to help the translated text wrap/scale better. In theory.


So, there were are... Wrongworld has been translated! It only took me about 3 months longer than expected! :)

As always, if you have any feedback or encounter any problems, please do not hesitate to let me know. And feel free to come and say hello on the Wrongworld Discord[discord.gg].

I pushed out a little update to the translated beta version of the game an hour or so ago, just to correct a couple of minor issues with the non-English versions (there was a slight issue with the formatting of the save slot text shown on the Title Screen, and some of the special German characters weren't displaying properly).

I plan to leave the beta running for a little while longer yet, just in the hope that some more native speakers of German, Dutch, Russian or Japanese can take a quick look at the game and reassure me that it seems to make sense! :)

If anyone wants to jump in and take a look at the translated beta, you can find out how here:

https://steamproxy.net/games/664750/announcements/detail/1601514507819367503

Cheers!

It's taken me a couple of months longer than anticipated, but I think the Wrongworld translations are finally ready! However, as it's pretty brain-melting for me to test every single bit of text in the game in 4 different languages, I could do with a bit of help from native speakers to make sure it's all working nicely.

So, if you speak German, Russian, Dutch or Japanese (or are just curious) and fancy taking a look at the translations, please feel free to opt in to the beta so you can access the latest version of the game. To do that:

1) Open up your Steam Library.
2) In your list of games, right-click on Wrongworld and select "Properties".
3) Click the "Betas" tab at the top.
4) In the "Enter beta access code to unlock private betas" field, enter the following password:

betapassword

5) Click "Check Code".

You should then unlock the "betapublic" version of the game and be able to switch between that and the normal version of the game at will.

The beta version shouldn't cause any problems with your save files or anything like that, but please note that this is a beta, so there might be things wrong with this build of the game. I don't think there are, though! Just wanted to get that disclaimer in :)

If you decide to opt in to the beta and notice any problems with the new languages, please take a screenshot if possible showing the problem and email it to me at info@sludj.com.

When booting up the game, you should be asked which language you want, and you can change it using the new Settings > Language menu (it requires a game reboot to take effect).

Honestly, I do expect there'll be some minor issues with certain bits of text getting clipped or not fitting into the available space as well as the English version, but hopefully nothing game-breaking. If it looks pretty, that's a bonus, but I generally just want to know that it all makes sense!

Fingers crossed, there won't be any major problems, and I can finally get this update pushed out to the live version as soon as possible.

Thanks in advance for your help if you can give it. And thanks anyway if not! :)

I pushed out Update 1.4.3 yesterday, which was just a little bug fix, but it turns out that I fixed one bug and created another! That's what I get for rushing! Spinning too many plates at once this week, and it made me take my eye of the ball and not test things thoroughly enough. Please feel free to send me angry messages to teach me a lesson for my cock-up ;)

To anyone who was affected (which is hopefully just the one person who reported the problem to me), sorry about that! I've just pushed out update 1.4.4, which should fix the issue. Again. Fingers crossed :)


----- RANDOM UPDATES/FIXES -----
- The Crafting Menu now only updates to show which items you can craft based on the resources in your Inventory AFTER you've finished crafting something or placing a structure you've just created. Previously, it refreshed the Crafting Menu the moment you started crafting something, which caused a few issues if you subsequently cancelled the craft/structure placement, resulting in the resources not necessarily being properly returned to you. Long story short, there was a fiddly little bug lurking in there, but it's hopefully gone away now!


As always, if you have any feedback or encounter any problems, please do not hesitate to let me know. And feel free to come and say hello on the Wrongworld Discord[discord.gg].

Update 1.4.3 is now live, but it's just a little bug fix - see below for details. However, I thought I'd take this opportunity to give a little update on what I've been working on over the last month or two.

Thanks to the awesome Wrongworld community, all of the text in Wrongworld has now been translated into a few different languages - German, Dutch and Japanese so far, and there are a few others not too far behind. So, I've now started work on actually implementing the systems to allow the text to be swapped out. Because I haven't tackled such a thing before, I don't want to give an ETA on when these translations will go live, but hopefully it won't take too much longer. Rest assured, I'm hard at work on it anyway!

If you want to help out with any of the other translations in the meantime, please contact me on Discord or Twitter or email (info@sludj.com), and I'll point you in the direction of the community spreadsheet.


----- RANDOM UPDATES/FIXES -----
- Fixed a bug that prevented the resources from spawning into the world when you cancelled a craft-in-progress AND also had the "Auto-Close Crafting Menu" Preference disabled. Pretty sure I introduced this bug a couple of updates ago (when I added the greying-out of Crafting Menu items when you don't have the required resources in your Inventory), but because I play with the default Auto-Close Crafting Menu enabled, it slipped through my net. Sorry if you've been affected by that at all, and thanks to AzureDragon for letting me know! :)


That's all for now: just a tiny bug fix and a little update on how translation things are going. I'll get back to it!

As always, if you have any feedback or encounter any problems, please do not hesitate to let me know. And feel free to come and say hello on the Wrongworld Discord[discord.gg].

Today marks the start of the annual #LoveIndies celebration, so if you have a passion for indie games and hidden gems, make someone happy by sharing your reviews and recommendations on social media in support of them over the next two weeks, and leave shiny new reviews on Steam too if you want :)

For more info, please take a peek here[docs.google.com].

Tell your friends and subject your enemies to this information! :)

With the help of the wonderful Wrongworld community, I'm finally getting around to sorting out multi-language support for the game!

If you happen to be multilingual and fancy helping out translating the game to any other language, please fire me a quick email at info@sludj.com and I'll send you an invite to the translation spreadsheet.

First round of invites going out this morning :)

Update 1.4.2 is here, but don't get too excited; it's a very, very minor one! I'm still focusing on some other elements of the game at the moment (like preparing to sort out localisations and the potential console versions) which is preventing me from working on any major new content for the time being, but I've recently made a few very minor changes and fixes so I thought I'd get them live while I have a bit of free time.


----- WOODEN TOOL TWEAKS -----
Wooden tools now only take 5 Wood instead of 10, and they harvest a tiny bit faster now too.

One of the parts of the game that bothers me the most is the slow start. I know that's mainly just a side-effect of the survival genre that I can't do much about - you start off with nothing that exciting and have to work your way up to the good stuff - but I'm hoping this change lessens the initial grind some people feel exists in the early part of the game.

Speed-wise, in case you're interested, here are the approximate timings of how long it takes to harvest something depending on whether you're using a Wood, Stone, or Science-y tool (in seconds):

-- TREES --
Head: 9.4
Wood: Previously 5.65, now 4.7
Stone: 3.7
Science: 1.8

-- ROCKS --
Head: 9.4
Wood: Previously 5.8, now 5
Stone: 4.25
Science: 1.95

So, this update makes Wood tools cheaper and improves the harvesting time between using your head and using a tool. The speed change isn't much, but hopefully it'll make crafting your first Wood Axe a little more satisfying by giving a more noticeable boost in speed.

One of the side effects of this is that the Stone tools aren't as good by comparison as they previously were. They still cost the same old 5 Wood and 5 Stone, meaning that the fact that they last around twice as long as a Wood tool isn't as much of a perk as it once was, because you could, for example, just craft 2 Wood Axes and probably get as many harvests out of them as you would a Stone Axe, saving 5 Stone in the process (but using up another 5 Wood in its place). However, you would still harvest a little slower overall so it's worth having a Stone tool for that reason alone, and you have to factor in the need to stop and craft multiple items, as well as potentially having to carry several of them around with you. Plus, by the time someone has crafted a Workbench and has access to Stone tools, they'll hopefully be into the swing of things a little more then and would feel like the additional resources aren't that big of a deal.

Experienced players probably won't care about this either way, but new players might find the start of the game a little smoother now, so this change can't hurt! I hope that all makes sense and you understand the reasoning behind this tweak.


----- RANDOM UPDATES/FIXES -----
- Fixed a typo on the Mode Select screen... How it's taken me a year or so to notice that, I'll never know!
- Fixed an issue that might've caused Indoor Lamps to toggle on and off when you were moving furniture around inside your house.
- Disabled the Unreal Engine console from opening when you pressed Tilde (or whatever key is to the left of "1" on your keyboard), because it was completely pointless. At least, I think I've disabled it now :)


So, there were are. A pathetic little update this time! Rest assured, I still have plans for more content in future, but I'm juggling a bunch of things at the moment so there's no ETA right now. Hopefully not too long :)

As always, if you have any feedback or encounter any problems, please do not hesitate to let me know. And feel free to come and say hello on the Wrongworld Discord[discord.gg].