Spring has sprung! And tons of bugs with it.

No, actually, the bugs were pretty much already there. But we started testing, baby! Toumayhem has been fully funded from my pockets and a few kind donations, so I'm extremely grateful to the friends who offered their help to test the game for free. I'm also assisting them in this endeavour to lighten the weight on their back. Thank you, my beloved Chrono Bros. Also, all portraits have been finished and both the backgrounds and translation progress is advancing steadily.

As I said, this month was all about bugs for me! Mostly incorrect sprites showing up, wonky transitions, some sentences going out of bounds...

Aiko has had a single test run only dedicated to her lines because she's the only one capable of exceeding the textbox capacity.

Other fun bugs left to fix:

• All doors make the sound of a swing door. As you can see in the previous screenshot, that's a revolving door. The school is full of them (but there's swing doors too!)
• Even when the game is in Italian, the voice assistant sometimes speaks in English for some reason (the reason is: missing labels)
• The voice assistant speaks too much and reads the date EVERY SINGLE TIME. This is clearly superfluous and needs to be changed, though I'd like some feedback from people who need a VA to play properly

I need to take some time to properly polish the accessibility side, mostly audio captioning, but other than that it's going smoothly.

Additionally! I've finally programmed my favourite screen in the game.

The Jukebox! Track names are available in romaji and kana and all puns are properly explained. It was also the perfect chance to ramble about the music, something I really really like to do. Audio is definitely the thing I like to do the most in games (a vital part of storytelling, for me!), so it was amazing to see this coming alive.

Also, there's a credits video now. I made it all by myself. Video editing is my passion. Sorry in advance for repeating my name constantly in the credits, at least the Special Thanks list is varied enough.

See you next month!