Here’s some fan art from ChazDude on Newgrounds.
If you’re having a very bad Christmas, or know someone who is, private message me on Newgrounds, Twitter, BlueSky or the EBF Discord, and I’ll send you a Steam key for EBF5.
Hey everyone, I’m getting started on translating Matt’s Hidden Cats.
I’ve already emailed everyone who helped translate EBF5 with the details.
(assuming they’re all using the same emails as before – contact me if not!)
I’m gonna start doing some research to see which new languages I should add to the game, based on what languages are popular but also looking at the stats on my existing games.
Splitting Spanish into Europe and Latin America was mentioned during the last project, so I think I’m finally going to do that.
I’m also adding Finnish and Lithuanian due to nepotism – they are tiny markets but I have family that speak those languages.
After that, I dunno… in terms of what’s popular on Steam and the overall gaming market, the next languages to add would be Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Italian. So I’ll consider those if I have enough fans who can help out with those languages.
Let me know what you think!
I’ve just finished all of the achievements in Matt’s Hidden Cats.
There’s 90 in total, and while most of them can be collected through normal gameplay, there’s a bunch you have to go out of your way to get, and they’re quite tricky.
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I played through and finalised 83 levels in Matt’s Hidden Cats this month. Ooof.
The game currently has no thematic climax though, so I may need to make a few more levels to tie it together at the end…
Hey ya’ll, you can try out the Matt’s Hidden Cats demo on Itch while the Steam launch approaches.
Currently it’s only in English, but it’s almost feature-complete otherwise.
There’s 4 or 5 hours of content in there.
So it turns out that on Steam I can only notify wishlisters about a demo one time, when it first drops.
I was gonna publish a Matt’s Hidden Cats demo in English only, and update it with the other languages later, but I guess I’ll do that on Itch or Newgrounds instead.
The best thing for the Steam algorithm seems to be to generate a lot of hype just before the game launches, with nearly final content, and not too long in advance. So the Steam demo will probably have to wait until late January, after translations are done and shortly before the Next Fest in February.
I’ll try to get an English-only demo out on some other platform this week. Hoping to finish the final dialogue soon and do the translations in December.
Here’s a bonus photo of my Halloween costume, from Expedition 33:
