Time for another short devlog!

Many things have changed and improved since the first devlog almost 4 months ago. Back then, I was suffering from a severe concussion & had other health problems tracing back to November that kept my dev time to an absolute minimum. Thankfully, the symptoms gradually started to go away and I do dare say that I today do not suffer from any day-to-day symptoms. Which means development has ramped up, as well as the commercial success. It is still a far far cry away from being able to support me enough monetarily that I could direct all my time & money towards it, but I do have good hopes that this will change, and I will be taking action to try to speed up that process.

GameTranslate is taking many small but meaningful steps by the week. I think the app will soon reach a stability level that I am proud of and willing to advertise to people in good faith. Hence, when 0.5.0 eventually releases, after a time period of 7 days, I will increase its price to $10. I will also open a Patreon or/and BuyMeACoffee. This will be done with the sole purpose of being able to improve the app at a greater & more qualitative speed. More money means more development time & better hardware. The latter would not only improve development speed but also eventually enable me to create my own OCR & language models, as well as fine-tune currently existing ones.

Update release schedule

I realize my release schedule of new versions and the versioning themselves are all over the place. Therefore, starting on Sunday 1st of June, I will release each new update on the Sunday of every following week. These will be the full installers that you have already been using to install GameTranslate on your system.

There will also (possibly, and likely) be hotfixes contained in .zip files released during each week, at any time, Monday-Saturday. These will only be available to people who have purchased the app.

Feedback

I am extremely thankful to have started receiving more feedback from users. It is invaluable. Please do not hesitate to write on the forums or contact me at gametranslate.ojefors@gmail.com if you have any suggestions, feedback, issues, bugs or crashes. Even if you have already sent a crash report! There should also be an in-app bug/feedback report window added soon, making it much more convenient for users to give their valuable time.

Thank you!