It’s pretty much just Project news today! We don’t have any linguistic breakthroughs, as most of this week was focused on the website development and other more technical bits.
Firstly, some follow up about the austronesian alignment theory! If you recall, we’ve been in the verification phase for this theory for a bit over a month now. This involves checking all the voice lines in the game to check if the austronesian alignment theory holds up! See Hallowspeak Update 27 for more information on how we do this.
We’ve made some more progress on this now, and have currently fully checked all the voice lines for Quirrel, Hornet, Zote, Elderbug, Cornifer, Sly, the Nailmasters, the Stag, Snail Shaman, Millibelle, Cloth, Tiso, and the White Lady!!! And….? Yup!! They all fit the theory!! Honestly at this point, I’m not sure if we even need to continue and check every single character’s voice lines, cuz all of these so far fit fine!! Maybe we could just check some of the more weird and difficult voice lines, rather than every single one…
Now for the website!!! The Hallowspeak Website has been the main focus for the whole Team this week! As Crowan said in last (proper) update, we’ve moved to a WordPress website instead of coding everything from scratch now. But don’t let that fool you: there’s still been loads of crazy code shenanigans while making it!! They uh… pretty much all come from me trying and failing to edit the CSS.
Apart from coding, there’s been a lot of discussion on how the website should be structured: as in which pages should be linked to which others and how the website will be navigated. It’s currently split into Home, About, Blogs, and Contact. Home is just a nice looking front page, and the other three both have a few extra pages under them! I think this arrangement is pretty good, but if you have any ideas of your own we’d love to hear!!
And, of course, a lot of our time has been taken up by transferring all the Hallowspeak Updates to the website! It’s actually pretty annoying, since when you copy and paste it from discord, a lot of the formatting doesn’t go through, so all the line breaks and italics have to be done manually ? It is!! Incredibly time consuming!!!
So far, the only pages actually fully written are the homepage, about page, and the FAQ. However I wouldn’t be surprised if they get rewritten/redesigned in the future :p
Here’s some pictures!
Anyways, that’s pretty much it for this week! It’s gonna be holiday in 4 days for me, and we’ve been discussing having more Hallowspeak voice chats, so expect some cool progress soon!! (although knowing us, it’ll probably just be messing about :p) Tune in next time!!!