Thank Leyre González for help with the translation!
Please feel free to tell me any bugs you found in the game, in the discussions board, or via kissme@wmy-studio.com .
PS. Don't forget to give a positive review if you like it.
Love :)
WILL: A Wonderful World won Dengeki PlayStation 2018-2019 Award!
WILL: A Wonderful World won the second place in the Dengeki PlayStation 2018-2019 Award! Thank you for your support!
Golden Week Holiday Announcement
Hi All
We hope you are doing great and enjoying all the Playism games!
As Playism is based in Japan, we wanted to notify you all that due to the extended Japanese holidays this year for Golden Week at the start of May, we will be closing our offices and operations from April 27th to May 6th.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, however, we will be back on May 7th, and shall handle all issues from then onwards.
Thank Teylin and Enchanted Pancake for Russion Translation
Teylin found me in May last year. She told me that she loved the game. Teylin is a translator and she wants to let more Russians know about WILL.
I never thought about translating this game into Russian until then, because most Russians like to play free games, which is the same as Chinese. But Teylin touched me. She reminds me of a Russian boy I met in Japan at Tokyo Game Show a few years ago. He worked for a game company in Japan. He has now returned to Moscow to start his own adventure game project. Although most Chinese people play free games and pirated games, there are still many players who really love games and respect the creation.
In my impression, Russian men have beards and Russian women are very beautiful. They are fighting people, strong and brave. But what surprised me was that they were very careful in dealing with the details of the text too. Teylin and her translation team, Enchanted Pancake, completed the Russian translation and proofreading of the entire game. In the process, we wrote more than 50 emails to discuss the details of the translation. After I put all the resources into the game, they did in-game-test 3 times to make sure the translation was correct. Teylin also recommended more than 10 useful free Russian fonts to me which really helps.
Now that the Russian version is complete. I believe the translation is very good although I can't read Russian. Knowing Teylin and translating WILL into Russian also gave me some new insights into Russia. I have not been to Russia yet, but now I really want to go there and have a look, see Lake Baikal, Red Square, Winter Palace... ◕ω◕
Enchanted Pancake is a Russian translation group whose Twitter account is @pancake_TL, but they use VK (https://vk.com/enchantedpancake) more frequently. If you have also done an adventure game and want some help for translating English into Russian, it would be a good idea to contact them.
At the time of writing this article, I suddenly thought, what does Enchanted Pancake mean? I googled Enchanted Pancake and got this:
Well… I want to go to Russia more now.
Finally, thank Teylin and Enchanted Pancake for all their help again! Love :)
WILL: A Wonderful World 1.4.0 Release Note
New Features
Added Russian.
Fixes
Fixed problem where the lines in selection screen disappear sometimes in low resolution.
Fixed several mistakes in Japanese translation.
Fixed problem where the dialog can't display correctly when quit game while reading ending.
Fixed mistakes on profile cards.
Improved
Optimized save data construction.
Optimized display performance.
Optimized memory usage.
Replaced controller support module with Rewired. Supported vibration on PC. More stable controller support.
This patch majorly added Russian to the supported language list. Thank Teylin and Enchanted Pancake for all their help with the translation!
Please feel free to tell me any bugs you found in the game, in the discussions board, or via kissme@wmy-studio.com .
PS. Don't forget to give me a positive review if you like it.
Love :)
WILL's HD wallpapers for cellphone and desktop!
Since game was released in 2017, I have been asked many times, "Excuse me... Where can I download HD wallpapers?" Even some players asked the goods store's custom service. They beat around the bush which looks like an unspeakable secrect deal.
Now the HD wallpaper are ready! Hope you like them!
Don't forget to share them to your best friends if you like them. :)
"WILL" got 34/40 from Famitsu's cross review and got GOLD award!
It is coming to an end in 2018 and it has also been nearly a year and a half since the release of "WILL: A Wonderful World". The famous Japanese magazine Famitsu has given 8/8/9/9, 34/40 in total, to "WILL" in the Cross Review. The high score makes "WILL" the first Chinese game that got GOLD award from Famitsu.
A lot of friends congratulated me, saying that it was a pity not get PLATINUM award with one less point. But I think GOLD is good enough for this game. I will definitely do better for the next game. ヾ(◍°∇°◍)ノ゙
Thanks Famitsu and PLAYISM! Thanks every player who supports "WILL"!
New version on console came out!
I still remember that the first announced console platforms of "WILL: A Wonderful World" were PS4 and PSV. Although PSV was abandoned due to some reasons, the PS4 version has been continuously developed. Interestingly, due to the convenience of the development kit of Switch, the Switch version became the first released console version.
The PS4 version was finally ready recently on PSN store (only in Japan). The Japanese version does not contain English, but don't worry, I'm preparing the Asia/EU/US version which contain English. Thank you for waiting.
PS. Since I have started developing a new game, I probably would not check the discussion board frequently. So sorry that I didn't respond some of you in time. If you encounters any problems in this game, please contact me by sending an email to kissme@wmy-studio.com . I will continuously maintain this game.
Switch version is coming!
Good news!
"WILL: A Wonderful World" will be on Switch this month! !
With the help of CIRCLE Entertainment, after many many times of testing and revision, "WILL: A Wonderful World" will be released on October 18th at Nintendo eShop in Europe and North America. The game supports English and Simplified Chinese.
I want to thank you all for your support and attention during this whole year, so there will be a discount in the first week. If you have a Switch and haven't played "WILL," then maybe it's a good time!
Thanks. :)
WILL: A Wonderful World 1.3.0 Release Note
New Features
Added Traditional Chinese.
Fixes
Completed proofreading of English translations and fixed all mistakes that have been discovered.
Adjusted Japanese translations in some places.
Fixed problem where the game turned black when select "don't save" after game clear.
Fixed problem where images (UI mainly) are flickering on some Mac.
Fixed problem where icons of console buttons display incorrectly in some cases.
Removed the words "mouse" and "computer" in the opening to ensure correct cross-platform display.
Fixed problem where icons of console buttons display incorrectly with XBox controllers.
Fixed a logic error happened after one character died in the game.
Fixed problem where the game does not response when switch endings with controller while none of the endings are selectable.
Improved
Improved the video playback to make it more smooth and fixed the problem where the video exits on the way.
Removed plenty of unnecessary memory requests and reduce the time overhead of GC.
Solved memory leaks.
Optimized image storage to save memory and GPU memory usage.
Improved UI display.
Improved tutorial text.
Reconstructed the method of displaying icons of console buttons to make the function more stable.
Please feel free to tell me any bugs you found in the game, in the discussions board, or via kissme@4ddoor.com .
PS. Don't forget to give me a positive review if you like it.
PSS. There is a new documentary called "Indie Games in China" released recently on Steam. This is a movie recording Chinese game developers' lives and the story of "WILL" is also part of it. Hope you like it!
