War of the Human Tanks pages are now live!
You can hop straight in by clicking on the banner, or navigate there from our main page at www.fruitbatfactory.com through the same banner.
We are adding more sections when other tasks allow. Currently you can read up on the story and characters, and get an overview of the game system.
Once completed, the pages will double as a manual for the game with in-depth game play guides.
If you spot some issues with the site, don’t hesitate to tell us.
When you first start up War of the Human Tanks fully in Japanese, the sight can be a bit overwhelming from a translation point of view. I’m referring to this:
It doesn’t exactly help the task that the gameplay script is split into perhaps a few hundred separate scripts, and the strings that need translating (perhaps as long as 1 character in size!) are hidden among the other game logic.
Well, our resident helper and tech genius Tony Blomqvist wrote some marvelous filters to help us deal with this issue. I’ve been chipping away at them from various angles for a while now with Yoshifumi‘s support, and the gameplay is… getting there. There are still a few bigger scripts to tackle (including unit infos, which are reflected pretty much everywhere), but it’s getting easier and easier to figure out what goes on in the game in English.
Of course, the initial translation is just half the story. After inserting the changes you go fiddle with the menus to figure out exactly where that one word was supposed to appear in and just how badly you screwed it up. Then tune and tinker.
But as you can see here, progress is definitely being made, and it’s quite fun to see the screens one by one turn into something understandable:
(Note that the images shown in the screenshots are also a work-in-progress.)
Above is the original Japanese logo for War of the Human Tanks. As you can see the ‘series’ name is emphasized heavily in the proportions.
I prepared many alternative versions and our team picked their favorite from amongst those. That one went over many, many changes over the course of several days, and finally came out as the version you can see below.
I hope you like the design as much as we do.
This is naturally just one handpicked detail I wanted to share with everyone. This particular image is important because you will be seeing it everywhere.
The progress overall has been rapid with each team member exploring different aspects of the game. Stay tuned!
War of the Human Tanks will be the first game Fruitbat Factory will be releasing worldwide in the English language. It is a story-driven strategy game with a setting deliciously crafted with black humor.
The game’s been our staff’s top pick for release since the moment we laid our eyes on it. It is also the first part of the Human Tanks game trilogy, which we hope to bring over in its entirety if the reception is favorable.
Yakiniku Banzai are cool guys and we couldn’t be happier about this opportunity to work with them! Expect more news in the near future.
(There was yakiniku consumed during the meeting again. Photos courtesy of Yakiniku Banzai.)
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