When Hobo recently tested the game and uploaded a map, there were a few issues with Chinese characters. For a while, this had me stumped, because I figured I would need to generate a font for every glyph there is, which is a bit much.

But then I saw SuperDungeonMaker. They let players create maps, and add titles and descriptions. When I saw this screen, I had to download and play it myself. I checked out the upload popup, and I was able to write text in ANY language.

I was like... how??

I contacted one of the developers, in this case Julian (but he didn't respond fast enough, i can't wait!!! 😂), so i asked devs in the Acegikmo discord. And one of the nice people there told me about...

✨ Dynamic Atlassing ✨

After watching two YouTube videos about it, here's how it works...

• Download a font, i.e. for simplified chinese 
• Drag font into unity
• Highlight imported font and press CTRL+SHIFT+F12 to create a dynamic font
• Go to your default font's settings, and add this as fallback font
• DONE 🎉

Julian later replied and confirmed that it's exactly what they're doing as well.

So yeah, now I was finally able to display any characters from different types of names.

Not sure if it will cause troubles with translation, but it shouldn't actually. Fallback should just work. We'll see if it causes any issues further down the line, but for now I'm happy.

Apart from that, I have implemented 10 of the 15 unlockables in a rather long working session of about 12 hours. 😁

Here you can see the Shield Bomb:

And here you can see the abilities "Empire Survivor" and "Chain Reaction":

I've also started creating the Halfquake skin, right now it looks like this:

Still needs a few more adjustments, but I like it already. :D

And finally, something I've talked about previously, I changed the font to Saira and updated the dialogue layout:

I think it looks much better now!

Next, I will work on statistics, commentary and the rest of the unlockables. This should be fun.

P.S.: Catty & Batty and Behind The Death Scenes are on sale right now in the Steam Autumn sale (75% and 50% off, respectively)!

To be continued... 💎