I often get asked about localization for Love of Magic, but I've always said no; partially because I considered it a lot of work (it was), and because there's just a ton of text. Across the three books around 650k words, or similar to Lord of the Rings. Evidently I have been busy. Several different translation teams have tried over the years,  but always run out of steam before getting much more than ~1/4 of the way.

At the same time I *get* that there are people who struggle with the language; my English isn't the easiest, and it can be hard to read for ESLs.

So. Enter LLMs. They've actually gotten pretty good, as long as they don't get sanctimonious on you and translate "Cum on her face" to "As a large language model I'm afraid I can't help you process this."  Previously machine translation tended to break in non-obvious ways (the classic reference is translating the statement "The Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" from English to Russian and back, which led to it saying "The Vodka's great, but the steak is terrible".) 

How well did it do? I... don't know. I don't speak Chinese, or Russian, or Turkish. Hopefully people will let me know if it's terrible. I have uploaded the raw .txt files to my Discord so people can edit it directly.

Apart from that there's a number of new and updated content. NGP is now complete, with big new quest-lines in Book 2, a satisfying and long overdue meeting in Elsewhere in book 3, and a true ending. And more sex, of course, because sex always sells. Assuming they let us market it.

Speaking of which, I don't know if anyone will SEE this devlog, since all adult games have gotten delisted from the itch.io store. If you're reading this, do let me know in the comments, or drop by on Discordand say hi!

So what's next for me? Wings of Empire is a Space Opera set in a world where the Roman Empire never fell, but clawed its way to the stars.

You can check out a demo (~2 hrs or so of gameplay) uploadedhere on itch.io for free! If you like what you see, do give it a wishlist on Steam, so I can afford to keep making games.