Greetings to all you Otome Game Players! We are a team of Otome game developers based out of China. After receiving so many great feedback and comments for our last game, “Lost in Secular Love”, we are hoping to improve the English translation for our next game, “My Vow to My Liege”. While we were translating, we met with a dilemma and hope that you all will be able to help answer our question by taking part in this poll.
Due to the difference in sentence structure and rules in both languages, it is very common for the English translation to be much longer than the original sentence in Mandarin/ Chinese to maintain all the details said in the original text. In English, it is necessary to keep proper grammar and proper grammatic structure for every clause. While in Mandarin, you can omit the subject, and the sentence would still retaining its meaning.
As it stands, our question is whether to summarize the English translation by omitting out the less important details or preserve every aspect of the original text. Below are examples of the two translation.
Here are two examples:
1. Detail text with the original meaning.
• The alarmed soldiers of Qi starts to break their formation in their hasty attempts to flee. The unlucky ones who were unable to run away were trampled under the wheels of the chariots and turned into minced meat.
• An island shrouded in mist stands in the middle of Lake Tai; at the heart of this island stands a lone banner with faded golden lines on an altar. Around it motionlessly stands a group of magestresses on the ground that has been tainted red with blood.

2. Summarized text with fewer details.
• The soldiers of Qi starts to break their formation in their attempts to flee. Those who weren’t able to get away were turned into minced meat under the chariots’ wheels.
• An island shroud in mist stands in the middle of Lake Tai; at the heart of this island motionlessly stands a group of magestresses on the ground that has been tainted red with blood.

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Thank you very much for taking the time out to read and participate in our poll!

You can find our new game “My Vow to My Liege” here →My Vow to My Liege

«Бесконечное путешествие» получило обновление, которое включает в себя перевод на русский язык! Мы очень надеемся, что вы приятно проведёте время, проходя данную игру на родном языке.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/715650/The_Endless_Journey/?curator_clanid=27414956

Эта игра основана на сказке о Бременских музыкантах. Чтобы справиться с заданиями, от вас потребуется использование не только подходящих инструментов, но и персонажей. Вот только некоторые из них могут оказаться бездельниками.


На самом деле я задумывался о переводе на русский язык ещё когда создавал свою первую игру — "PRICE".

Kитайцы — самые странные соседи россиян. Когда я был маленьким, дедушка показывал мне письма, которые присылали ему русские друзья.

Так что я очень рад, что у «Бесконечного путешествия» появился русский перевод.:aboutlove:

We can now accept Australian dollars! We were going to accept it a few days ago, in time for the Steam's Autumn Sale Event but was having problems with our VPN. We have since then, fixed our system and apologise to all our Aussie friends for the long wait.

We are also participating in the Steam's Autumn Sale Event and all our games are now on sale for the week.:aboutlove:

After 2 weeks of trying to fix our email server, we have found that our previous email address, service@yetuavg.com can no longer receive any incoming mails and letters. So we have changed our customer service email to 2535104877@qq.com. We are very sorry for the inconvenience and asked that you will sent any future emails to the new email address. In addition to that, if you have sent us any emails within the past two weeks, we asked that you will kindly re-sent us your emails to the new address.

Thank you very much!

Thank you everyone for your support! The OST for Lost in Secular Love is now available! It has 24 songs done in traditional Chinese style (including the instrumental version of the opening and ending songs); produced by an independent Chinese musician and composer @TetraCalyx. I hope that you will enjoy it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/876920/Lost_In_Secular_Love__Original_Soundtracks/

Lastly, we will have a 30% discount for the Steam's summer sale event. :aboutlove:

Thank you for purchasing our game, Lost In Secular Love. In addition to developing this game, we are also in the process of developing a new puzzle game, The Endless Journey.
We would like to find out how many of our otome game players also like puzzle games. For this, we would like to give away 5 keys to The Endless Journey. If you are interested and fulfill the following requirements below, please leave a reply under this post.

The requirements are:

1. If you have clocked in 2hrs or more of play time in Lost In Secular Love

2. If you have played the English version

3. If you are willing to complete The Endless Journey within a week of getting the key and answer a few of our questions.

We will select 5 players on the 8th of June 2018 and a personal message will be sent to the winners after I've added them to my friends list.:aboutlove:

Thank you for buying an English copy of our game. I am so happy to hear from the feedback and comments that everyone is satisfied with the English translation of the game.:aboutlove:
There are two groups of people that I would like to thank.

1. I would like to thank all our volunteers.
To be honest, before the English version was released, I was afraid that my poor time estimation on how long it would take to complete the English version, would keep everyone waiting, only to be disappointed after playing it.（This indie game was made when I was studying in university.From today’s view, it has some disadvantage. ）But it is all thanks to the hard work of all the volunteers on Steam that this game is what it is today. I would like to thank the following people for their efforts and willingness to help us:

Teleute_Eirene，LolAya，SweeTnT，XiaoChuChu，Angel，Phoenix Moonstar，ExoCrystal，Melanie Wilson，arielmazzatenta，queenskittles03，Bluemist 一只小雨 ，Tianmi

Diana，Casear， Hidfrey， tsukkitan ，Firefly， TheRosetteWolf， Mizuki Kaito， Mira Nikki， -Neon- ， Kouryuu， Hyunae， Lihra， Francesca ，Linhette ♥ ，Stealth


2. Next, I would like to thank everyone commented / recommended our game.
Although I'm good at doing such promotions in China but with my lack of proficiency in English, (this announcement was translated by @Teleute_Eirene) it is beyond me on how to contact someone on Twitter, Facebook and other English social media sites. Added to my discouragement, yesterday, I found a crack version of our game on a few websites. I've already contacted the administrators of those sites but no action has been taken. And in my bleakest hour, I saw your comments and recommendations. It lifted my spirits and I would like to thank you all for supporting us.I'm very grateful. If anyone has a site that they would like us to promote our game on, please post the URL on the discussion thread and we will try to contact the administrator. Thank you again.

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Dear Friends,
Sorry to keep you waiting for so long. We will be selling our English version of the game on 25th（20：00） May at a 30% discount for two week.（US PST time）
We encourage all English readers to wait for the discount period.

To install the English version:

If you have installed the previous Chinese or beta version of the game, please uninstall all previous versions with it's archives.
Re-install the English version, right click on the game and go to properties -> Language -> English (from the drop down menu)

It has taken a year and a half to do the translation.
I would like to thank everyone who volunteered to do translation, proof-reading and beta testing. Everyone of you helped us during our most crucial moment.
I would also like to thank everyone who waited all this time for the English version to come out. Your patience and understanding gave me the strength to persevere on.
I am grateful that the game has allowed me the opportunity to befriend @Teleute_Eirene. This game uses a lot of old world terminology and words that were hard to translate but thanks to her hard work, our game has the standard of translation it has today.

P.s.
1. This game came out in 2014 with an older version of today's platform hence using F12 to take screenshots will be a bit iffy. (Currently, you can only take screenshots of the video clips.) I'm really sorry about that.

2. The text is set in a pdf format therefore, we had to simplify the English translation. You can enjoy a preview of this game with the simplified translation before purchasing.

Thanks to the patient waiting and encouragement of each and every English-speaking players, we have now completed testing the full game for the first time, and fixed some bugs. This time, we are looking for last batch of volunteer testers. Thanks to every player who is willing to sign up and help us.

【Recruitment Requirements】
1. English-speaking players who have previously purchased Lost in Secular Love (We are awfully sorry since many players, believing in us, have purchased the game and waited for up to a year.)
2. Players who have abundant time before April 14, 2018, and can send bug reports to our email address (service@yetuavg.com) before that date.

【Rewards】
For those volunteer testers who report bugs before April 14, we will give you the Steam key for all paid DLCs of Lost in Secular Love.
If you already have them, I will send you a game key for another game we developed instead.

【To Sign Up】
If you meet the recruitment requirements, simply leave a message in the comment area. I will draw 10 volunteers, and ask for their Steam usernames & emails to grant special authority on the developer's back end.
Notably, I am not fluent in English and may use machine translation when contacting you. I hope it won’t offend you.