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I've been working on a tool that incorporates texthooker, translation, OCR, script matching, and popup dictionary. I have only shared it on the learn japanese subreddit and language learning discords. Website: https://game2text.com/ More information: Texthooker is a wrapper around Textractor, but I wrote my own text processing. (Textractor only works on Windows so text hooking is only available on the windows release). Translation is provided by three online services: DeepL, Papago, and Google Translate. Translation services like DeepL may be limited for a single IP address. OCR is provided locally by Tesseract or online by OCR Space. It's helpful when you can't hook a game or when the hook doesn't work sometimes. You can improve OCR within the app by applying image filters. Script matching is a technique that automatically matches the OCR result to your game script to find the correct line. So far it has been very promising for games like Persona 4, Pokemon Dungeons, Nier Automata provided you have a clean game script. Popup dictionary is a browser extension such as Yomichan or Rikaichan you can use with your browser. Since the app runs in your browser, you can use whatever popup dictionary you are already using. There are other language learning related features like Anki integration, but I suppose this app could be helpful for people who are just looking to translate their game. If you prefer to use another translation aggregator or service, you can simply enable output-to-clipboard in the app and have chiitrans to translate your clipboard or manually paste it in your browser.

It's funny how you can enjoy a anime you thought was going to suck just by reading the summary of it and looking at the genre listings. I guess it's like the old saying goes, "Don't judge a book by it's cover." That's kinda how I felt when I watched Ushio & Tora the first time thinking it just a quick shounen made into a anime but by the end of it I genuinely liked the characters and how the romance was built up. Same can be said about Eyeshield 21 and Cross Games, I generally don't like sport animes but those 2 stuck out to me.

Man, please don't... This is so cringe. You're turning a good idea into this weird social activism exercise that will appeal only to people that are already in your narrow niche and scare off everyone else. The indie VN community in the West is already very progressive. It doesn't need this virtue signalling and if you think there's some forms of diversity/representation that are too rare, remedy that by action (making your VN the way you feel is appropriate) and promoting games that already fit it (I assure you, if you look at game jams such as NaNoRenO or Yuri Game Jam and commercial projects by devs that show up there, you'll find plenty of diversity). And really, you should be talking to other devs about this stuff, in places such as Lemma Soft and VN Devs subreddit. That's where you could make a difference.

Well you know. The identity police groups are the biggest racists of all. While the rest of us don't care about skin color, they don't do anything but single out colours. Wish they'd stop already