Hi everyone !

How are you ?

The end of the year is approaching, and on this occasion, I wanted to give you a little recap of my progress on my game ! 

1- Enabling the player to play each part of the game in either FRENCH or ENGLISH.

In the last playable version of the prologue and the first part of "Mysteries of the Twos", I created two separate versions of each part, one translated into English and the other translated into French. Initially, I thought that separating not only the game parts but also the "languages" would help players navigate and play in the language they preferred...

However, the game was initially divided into 5 parts (I’ve decided to change that, to reduce the number of parts as well, but I’ll talk about it later!), which meant I had to create 10 playable versions of the game (5 for the 5 parts of the game in English and 5 for the 5 parts of the game in French).

I realized that, in the long run, this would inevitably lead to mistakes from my part, because if I wanted to make a change in a part of the game, I had to make this EXACT same change in the French and ... In the English version....and for the players, it became a real maze...

So, I decided to do something about it :

Tadaaaaa !! I decided that from now on, for each part of the game, there would only be one playable version, and I would let the player choose their preferred language (french or english) right at the beginning of the game, even before reaching the title screen !

It goes without saying that the language choice will also affect the language that appears in the settings, load, save, and menu (I’ve already translated all of these aspects into French).

Please note that this choice will be available each time you will restart the game ! And as stated in the image, the saves you make, regardless of the language chosen, can be loaded if you choose a different language (and by loading that save, the game will switch to the other language), so you'll have to keep them organized if you decide to play the game using the twos languages.

2- Improving the CGs...and making new ones !

The quality of the pre-existing CGs in the Prologue and the the first part... were not really good... it's because I'm working alone on this project and I'm not a professional illustrator. But as the times passes, I started to saw only the flaws in my illustrations... (same as the backgrounds, you can check This post I made for this issue), so I decided to work on them too !

So far, I've redone 2 illustrations from the first part of the game, and I made one more that will also appear in the first part !

Of course, to avoid spoiling all my work, I won't show you the new illustration nor I'll show you the full improved version of the 2 existing ones... But... I'll show you the old version of your encounter with Yang, the student council president, in the first part and show you its improved version in full blurr !

I plan to make an additional illustration that will appear in the Prologue and improve the title screens illustrations (the one that appeared in the Prologue and the one that appeared in the first part !)

... Not to mention the remaining illustrations and backgrounds I have to make for the remaining parts XDD so many work to do ! But I'm so happy to be working on all those improvements ! And I'm so happy to show you my progress !

3- Working on animating the Prologue of my game !

For a long time, I had this idea of creating animations in the form of episodes that will tell the story of 'Mysteries of the Twos' !  I already mentioned this idea in the end of This post :

As you already know, this game will be divided in several "parts" so several "playable visuals novels". My idea is to create short animations (4 to 6 minutes long) in the form of episodes that will summarize each part of the game (maybe some parts will be turned into multiple small animated episodes !).

I made a little preview in Reddit ! you can check the video HERE !!

I hope you'll like this little update ! and I also wish you happy holidays to everyone ! 🥳 I hope you have a wonderful time surrounded by those who matter to you, and I hope the coming new year will be filled with happiness, joy... and many otome/yandere games to discover!!

See you next year !!

MelaEliera, Creator of "Mysteries of the Twos"