Demo v0.5.1 - Japanese localisation and more

Yet another update for the Mops & Mobs demo! The relevant change this time is the addition of a Japanese localisation. This was done for the INDIE Live Expo 2026, but also as a test balloon for upcoming translations. Right now the Japanese texts are only in the demo.

The sad reality is that every translated word costs money, and our budget is very tight while the amount of text in the game is very high. The demo alone has around 9000 words. So what we'll have to find out in the future is which localisation will be actually worth it. For that we'll have to at least translate the Steam page, and then analyse the stats.

In any case, here are some other changes since the last update (as usual, not all of them are relevant to the demo version):

• added setting to disable move buttons
• fixed a bug with static NPCs getting removed after loading a savegame
• fixed a bug with quests getting removed from diary until reload
• added library level (not in demo)
• added inspection of specific items in the inventory (actually starts a dialog)
• added several sounds by Klangfee
• fixed mesh offset in inspection mode
• fixed a crash bug occuring when pressing F12 in the start menu

By the way, we started a weekly dev log, which you can find on IndieDB, our Discord, and in the Steam forum.