Новости BOOK OF HOURS
Объявления разработчиков, обновления и обсуждения.
BOOK OF HOURS x Smooth Jazz
The later stages of *BOOK OF HOURS* get a little stuttery, and I get a mail every couple of weeks from someone who’s dismayed that their high end rig built around a 4090 RTX isn’t running *BH* with the buttery smoothness…
Читать и обсудить →Light Is Always The Answer
*"Chitinous cities embrace the Change, or struggle against plagues of leaf and amber..."* AK here. It still tickles me how few people realise Weather Factory is literally just two people (plus, ofc, trusted freelancers)…
Читать и обсудить →Simplified Chinese out now for HOUSE OF LIGHT
An update for all our Chinese players: HOUSE OF LIGHT is now fully playable in Simplified Chinese! This means all 270,000 words of *BOOK OF HOURS* + HOUSE OF LIGHT are translated in beautiful Simplified Chinese, and you …
Читать и обсудить →2024.10.j.3: 'JANUS'
The Wonderful Shape is now a Dawn book Rest at Sweet Bones: Winter message now only displays in Winter Tooltip on first-day ticker no longer flickers Tuned some of the sounds in the Wisdom Tree If you've completed a stan…
Читать и обсудить →BETA BRANCH: Simplified Chinese localisation of HOUSE OF LIGHT preview
Thanks to the hard work of the Chinese localisation team, there's a preview version of the Chinese localisation of HOUSE OF LIGHT available now. There may be missing texts or oddities - please let us know about these at …
Читать и обсудить →HOUSE OF LIGHT Day 1 Update on beta branch
The headline feature here is a patch to address the problem some people saw with blank Further Stories events in legacy saves. There are also a bunch of typos and story logic oddity fixes, and a tiny additional feature …
Читать и обсудить →HOUSE OF LIGHT out now!
*"Mrs Kille respectfully addresses Morgen as 'Chaculette'- a title that Morgen seems to recognise - and bows her head. Morgen touches a finger to her lips, and then to Mrs Kille's forehead - perhaps a blessing, perhaps s…
Читать и обсудить →Russian and Simplified Chinese now available!
***"Before gods arose from blood, before ever ape stood upright, this was the language heard in the House of the Sun...”*** All 200,000 words of *BOOK OF HOURS* are now available in Simplified Chinese and Russian! (Japa…
Читать и обсудить →The Secret Colours of the Sun
*"Facts are like cows. If you stare them in the face hard enough, they generally run away."* — Mervyn Bunter, *Clouds of Witness* (1926) Facts are the bricks of life, but they need a few licks of paint before you want t…
Читать и обсудить →mfw. fml. etc.
A fix specifically for the logo not changing when you switched specifically from Chinese to Russian in the menu. Another fix for the bug the logo fix caused, where all buildings in Brancrug looked like the Sweet Bones.…
Читать и обсудить →A handful more loc fixes
(and finally the bookshelf labelling system supports Chinese characters)…
Читать и обсудить →UPDATE 2024.8.h.12
ladies germs and others, hello! Most of this patch is prep work for HOUSE OF LIGHT (out next month) and for Russian and Chinese localisation (out next week, available now if you add loctest=1 to your config.ini). But so…
Читать и обсудить →BOOK OF YEARS
[ We published this at 6.27PM (har har, Alexis) on Saturday 17th August on our website - but we wanted to share the feels and what's next on Steam, too! Happy anniversary, BOOK OF HOURS. ]* ONE YEAR AGO TODAY… On Augus…
Читать и обсудить →Gleam-Touched and Glory-Gifted
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2834350/BOOK_OF_HOURS_HOUSE_OF_LIGHT/ AK is away currently on a mysterious writing trip - his last before HOUSE OF LIGHT launches - to finish up the Lighthouse Institute. You've probab…
Читать и обсудить →The Ivory Dawn
*"Lucia the Eyeless will parley with the Chandler. Perhaps she'll alter her loyalties; perhaps the Chandler will free poor Ghirbi..."* For no particular reason, I've been reading about the punk and post-punk scene in Le…
Читать и обсудить →The Weather Forecast
AK posted this to the subreddit last night: "Celebrating the completion of the Further Visitor Stories in HOUSE OF LIG…
Читать и обсудить →Darest thou trust the Egg?
*“In the Mansus, the Hours strive one against another. As the struggles are resolved, they iron out the impossible, exalt the possible, tie the fraying braids of what has been into one golden ribbon of future. Everything…
Читать и обсудить →Update on BETA branch: FRASER 2024.5.f.1
You can now sometimes find blackberries, rosehips and mushrooms on the Moor ESC now closes the detail window (for consistency: it already closed terrain and verb windows) You can order a greater variety of things from T.…
Читать и обсудить →The Big Ones and the Little Ones
*"Al-Adim and Agdistis are gossipping, quietly, about al-Adim's patroness. 'Not a hundred legs,' says al-Adim, 'but more than you'd think…'"* If a videogame is a wall, what do you think - is writing more like the bricks…
Читать и обсудить →"See what surfaces in sleep..."
Aaand we’re back! The previous article had us rambling about the structure of Alexis Kennedy’s prose, something that makes translating it akin to translating poetry. Today I am going to talk some more about linguistic t…
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