recruiting Witch's Garden Translation Project [TLC NEEDED]

[SpecterZ]

I need to re-organize the team. This project will be stalled for a while.

[Crayten]

58 minutes ago, SpecterZ said:

I need to re-organize the team. This project will be stalled for a while.

I really hope that you manage to finish your baby. Would be heartbreaking if it wouldnt happen after that much effort you put into it.

[SpecterZ]

Update

[Aizen-Sama]

@NeroDragon12 You seem to be more active here than other places, so I'll post something here so you know this. I've been trying to contact you to speak regarding this project for a week now. Please either get online in skype or send me a PM here so we can chat without constantly sending PM's here.

I'll be waiting for a response.

[Aizen-Sama]

From this moment on this project is under the jurisdiction of Luna Translations. More info on it here:

 

[Aizen-Sama]

Final Team Roster has been set up. We might recruit another proofreader and some beta testers in the future. But don't expect it to be the near future.

• Aizen-Sama (Coordinator)
• Unnamed (Translator)
• Rime (TLC)
• TastefulSardine (TLC)
• Forte (TLC/ Translator)
• Hellcat (Editor)
• Arcadeotic (Proofreader)
• Porygon (Lead Hacker)
• Tymmur (Hacker)

[Decay]

Jesus, Ryechu, calm the hell down already.

[SpecterZ]

Team re-organization is done.

[AdventSign]

So the few people that were working on it previously should stop ASAP?

[Aizen-Sama]

2 hours ago, AdventSign said:

So the few people that were working on it previously should stop ASAP?

Comtact me by pm and we'll talk about it.

[Aizen-Sama]

Weekly update.

 

[Aizen-Sama]

What up people. Sorry about the short blog post, but I'm pretty tired today.

 

[Aizen-Sama]

Sorry for not posting here as much as I should. Anyways, expect Eclair's route to be finished by the end of this week. I'll announce it in the bi-weekly update anyways.

Cheers and have anice day.

[Aizen-Sama]

As promised, this is the bi-weekly update link. Eclair's ropute has been completely finished! Only 2 left!

 

[Veshurik]

I still pray for that project, because I'm so interested in Windmill novels...  Are you still alive?

[Fred the Barber]

4 hours ago, Veshurik said:

I still pray for that project, because I'm so interested in Windmill novels...  Are you still alive?

It's still alive, but moving slowly. VNTS infrequently bumps the "translated" percentage by 1%, and you can also track the current progress here at any time to see how the numbers are moving up. The project is a solo effort at this point, by a person who doesn't have a whole lot of time. That, coupled with the VN being way bigger than your average VN, results in progress being slow. But progress looks pretty steady, and the person doing the translation work is very knowledgeable, so, be patient and hold onto that dream!

And to be clear, I'm not involved with the project, just acquainted with the translator, who isn't on Fuwa, so I figured I'd jump in and explain for him.

[Nandemonai]

On 12/8/2017 at 6:10 PM, Fred the Barber said:

That, coupled with the VN being way bigger than your average VN, results in progress being slow.

Witch's Garden Total line count: 53677

Shin Koihime Musou total line count: 108888

Is 53K really all that much bigger than your average VN? 

Edited December 10, 2017 by Nandemonai

[skrewball717]

it is bigger than your average VN, which I would say sits somewhere around 30-40k lines. SKM is huge, but is also the exception, not the standard.

[Fred the Barber]

Yeah, @Nandemonai, you've got a monster; your sense of perspective is probably a little off.

~40k is my gut feel for average, for a full-length VN. Witch's Garden, at 30% beyond that, is a pretty big step up.

[Veshurik]

Is that project... still alive?

 

Hope, Windmill also goes on West, because they already released some puzzle games in English in Steam.

Edited July 7, 2018 by Veshurik

[littleshogun]

As for whether the project is still alive or not, the answer is that yes it's still alive even with (Sorry) infrequest updates. The translator was also still active at the Discord, so sooner or later we'll going to get another update.

[frc_]

Hi, I'm the one person who's too stubborn to stop working on this project. As you can see at the bottom of the progress page Fred linked earlier, it's indeed still alive. In fact, I've been working on it almost every day since I joined it in September 2016. (The reason the progress page currently says "Last updated 7 days ago" rather than "yesterday" is that I only upload my changes when I complete a script)

Progress is indeed slow, but you have to take into account that apart from translating, I'm also already doing a quite thorough editing pass. It takes time to come up with sentences that are natural, clear and concise while also having character, and it takes even more time if you're not a native speaker. Sometimes I'll do fifty lines in an hour, and other times I'll only manage three . This is also the reason I don't normally post in here - seeing as it'll take several more years for this project to reach completion, there's really no point in trying to keep people excited. I'd rather have them forget about it and then surprise them when it's done.

If you want to chat with me on Discord, you can usually find me on the Visual-Novel.info server where I'm known as "arc_".

Edited July 14, 2018 by frc_

[Stormwolf]

Thanks for your hard work! If i were you i'd just make a serviceable translation and have the community fix it later, if people would be up for it. Better than to burn yourself out completely. Good luck regardless what you do

[Veshurik]

I love Windmill style, and you guys are wonderful. Slowly working, but I am patiently waiting person.

 

Would be great for helping with beta testing, by the way. All players love beta test!

[frc_]

I'm dropping this project. My apologies to anyone who was looking forward to it.

Because the common route hasn't been edited, I won't release a partial patch (it wouldn't be enjoyable to read). Conversely, the editing in the heroine routes is so heavy (often replacing entire sections of narration by original text) that I also won't release the translation for others to pick up. If this game ever gets a full translation, it should be a consistent one.