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Greetings, Fuwanovel! Welcome to The Tales of Bayun thread! Summary It's a visual novel / narrative adventure game with RPG elements set in a grim fantasy world based on eastern european and slavic myths and legends. Still in development by me and Flyin Dogs indie team, aiming for the release till the end of 2022 for Windows and MacOS. Gameplay The core gameplay is like the most of VNs: choosing different actions and dialogue options. But we also have stats and inventory management, world exploration through Point and Click elements, additional features like bestiary. World All the action takes place in the original fantasy world called The Side. Even though we drew inspiration from different folklore pieces, The Side has it's own rules and stories, there is place for all kind of things: love and hatred, joy and sadness, poverty and wealth, life and... death. It is the place where you will meet many different characters, including some supernatural creatures and our beloved Bayun the Cat. None of them are good or evil, they simply have their own feelings, ideas, fears and ways of living. Happiness of one character can easily become a death sentence for another. Choose wisely, but don't forget that the main character has his own goals! Visuals Characters, backgrounds and all other items have been created from the scratch. The main idea was to create authentic and dark art that will catch the spirit of the original fairytales and legends. Sound There will be more than 20 ambient tracks created specially for The Tales of Bayun, sound effects for different actions (like footsteps, bells ringing, birds singing and etc.). We also plan to record the voice acting for the characters, but still have some doubts about this. Trailer: Gameplay: Some screenshots and arts: Hope, you got interested in The Tales of Bayun! As it is stated in the title of the thread, we have released a demo version on Steam a couple of days ago. Anyone can take a look and form their own opinion. Keep in mind that the work is still going, demo may have some bugs and lack some features (e.g. voice acting). But we will very grateful for any kind of feedback: bug reports, suggestions, ideas and all the thoughts you wish to share. You can share them via our small Google Forms survey, Discord or here in comments. Look forward to hearing from you and don't forget to Wishlist us if you like the game! P.S. If anything is wrong with the post, don't hesitate to tell me - I will do my best to fix it.

Nice to hear a bit on how the VN community works in Portugal. I hear that europeans usually know more than one language — which makes sense given your physical proximity to a lot of different countries. As far as I know, you don't really have the need of a second language in Brazil or the US; given the fact that their territories are pretty big and most people have little to no contact with other frontiers. Also glad to know I'm not the only one who has some worries on the state of Portuguese translations. Maybe because I'm a fluent English speaker for years, and because I have also helped in Persona 3 FES' Portuguese translation in the past, I'm quite aware that most projects don't have the care they deserve. Nowadays I am learning Japanese, and I hope I can do some justice on certain translations if I keep this hacking/translating hobby in the future. I highly recommend you to try learning Japanese too. Translating from an English TL does create some noise, and the linguistic structure of English is a lot different from Japanese. I think the fact our native language is Portuguese kinda boosts our Japanese learning capabilities since we have similar sounds and our linguistic structure is not as alien to Japanese as English is. If you need any any help, I highly recommend this guide: https://itazuraneko.neocities.org/ Currently focusing on the N4 exam. Also hoping to get N3 by the end of next year. I'll keep immersing, studying and praying lol