neonie Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 Every summer vacation, while everyone is playing at the beaches or going camping in the mountains, Shinichi has a bored look on his face. Even though his father is getting remarried and he ended up living together with his older brother and childhood friend, it doesn’t trigger any excitement in his heart. However, this summer is different. Helping out at his father’s Cafe Sourire with his meddlesome friends, will it help him regain that ‘something’ that he had forgotten? ‘Sourire’ means ‘smile’ in French and that’s what this heartful love ADV wants you to do with its slice of life depiction of working at a cafe during summer vacation. This VN caught my eye quite a while ago with it's striking, soft art style. I recently downloaded the Japanese version of the game and am now more interested in it then ever. So interested in fact that I thought would take Aaeru's advice, and become the editor and project lead for this. But first I would like to see how interested the community here is in playing it, and if there are any individuals who would specifically like to work on it as a translator, hacker/encoder or proof-reader. From what I've played of it, the game seems very much in the vein of Little Busters/Katawa Shoujo. I doubt it will get quite as dark as those though (but hey, looks can be deceiving). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muki Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 I can help with proof reading; translating wise I'm not so great at compare to other people in this community. hope to see this project moving, and yes I do have a copy of the novel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neonie Posted July 27, 2013 Author Share Posted July 27, 2013 Steve was able to hack it for me, so all that's left is finding someone to translate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shcboomer Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Steve was able to hack it for me, so all that's left is finding someone to translate :)/> I'm sure if you ask around people will respond, or try to get in touch with Aaeru, maybe she can help you recruit with a post on her blog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neonie Posted July 27, 2013 Author Share Posted July 27, 2013 I found someone interested in doing it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Only the .ks files of the scripts are around 3.5MB which is quite a lot (even though it has speaker tag and voice address and all that included in the script). So you will ideally want more translators (for each route etc). I think if you are really starting this, you should rename the topic and ask Aaeru for the blog post, it should help you get some more attention and potentially people. As it stands now, it looks just like a question if players are actually interested (ofc they are, there will always be people who want to play a VN in English, not need to really ask ). So changing the topic and the whole first post into looking for people thread and share more detail for the actual translators (like what routes there are, how the choices are made, how long it is etc) Look up more info yourself, WT so you can see the number of routes, playtime on EGS (there it is 15 hours average so it will be like 20-30 for normal pace English readers). You also want to prepare a torrent version of the game for the translators and other people working on it, find out if there are some additional patches and what they change if there are some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neonie Posted July 28, 2013 Author Share Posted July 28, 2013 I believe I may be in over my head... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Topic closed. Interest is clearly shown and Neonie will be starting new recruitment thread with more info and all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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