L.S.F. English Project

Hi everyone. Sorry for keeping you waiting for such a long time.
It has been over 2 years since my last post in 2006.
I think those who were interested in our project may be confused and wanted to find out how our guys were doing. Well, the only good news is that we’re still alive.

I moved from Beijing to Tokyo to work for one of my favorite game companies. Derrick and Googol are now staying in Beijing. They’ll have a good summer because of the coming Olympic Games 2008. Andrew continues his school life in the United States, if I didn’t guess wrong. Yes, we’re still alive, and devote all our time to the daily life: work or school.

And now let’s come the part of the project. I don’t want to tell a lie, but the project progressed little in the last two years. That’s bacause we all felt lost in the great amount of work which had to be done in the full version, especially me. I just could’t find a solution to balance between the project and my daily life. So we just paused, as we don’t want the project to chain ourselves too much.

But after reading some of the comments about our project on the Internet, I feel it that the result of the project is unfairy for those who’re still waiting for the full game. We’re really disappointing them.

I have a new idea after thinking it over for a long time. I decided to open the project to the public, like all open-source project, to those who’re willing to help. Wiki would be the way to do it. I’ll release the full Chinese text (item names, descriptions, scripts, etc. ) on a wiki at first, so everyone can discuss it, translate it, edit it and argue on it. Obviously the exsiting wiki program couldn’t fulfill our requirements functionally. I’ll have to consider how the interface of the wiki would be and how to modify it in the codes. Now it’s just a rough idea. I’ll try to see how much we can make it though no one has any experience on doing it.

I just want to gather the power of all of yours to compete the full game. So please let me hear you if you had come up with some ideas or advises, or if you could offer some kind of help. And now I’m so excited as I was when I first started the project.

Tomorrow will never die.

We’re sorry to announce that the project paused and and the release of the full game is postponed infinitely, due to the lack of spare time for all members in the team.

But this is not the end of the project. You’ll hear our news soon.

We’re planning to recruit more helpers, maybe 6 to 10 people, most of them translators. And we’ll post some small questions for those who want to join us soon.

This news is for those who didn’t play the demo version of the game. We updated the download address of it. The main download site at waiss.name is recovered. It’ll be very fast for users from different ISPs in China. And a new mirror site lsfgame.net located in the US has been added to the list. Users from all around the world can enjoy extreme speed from that site.

Here’re the details:

Download Address:
For users in China:(server located in Shanghai)
http://waiss.name/download/lsf_demo_setup.exe

For users  of other countries:(server located in US)
 http://lsfgame.net/
(It’s required to download from the frontpage of the server.)

And the forum will be recovered soon.

It has been a long time that downloaders of the game complaint about the very slow speed when they tried to get the huge files back to their computers. But now they can release now.

We’ve setupped a mirror site located in the United States: http://www.lsfgame.net.

We have a plan to make web pages for the game in English, and put them on the space mentioned above. But still, we don’t have enough people now.

And the importand download will be moved to the new mirror site soon later on. And I hope you can enjoy the download speed from it then.

As what you’ve seem these days, our space is down again. I decided to move to a new space,in the hope of getting a better service. Though we’ll face the problem of data lost if we do this, I think it’s worthy of doing this for a brighter future.

And now I want to see if the space is fast enough. Could you please download this file:

http://waiss.name/music/2003/xyd.mp3

And leave me a message telling me how’s the speed. I’ll make the decision within a few days if it’s ok. And then the forum and all download service will be up on the new space.

Thanks!

I’m very very glad to tell all of you, the full items&magics list is done. And I took my time to write a viewer of it. So everyone can download it to check the whole list. It’s the snapshot:

 

You can download the viewer from: http://waiss.name/download/LSFViewer.zip

With this viewer, you can see how the names and descriptions are translated, how the short names are cut (and you can find that many different things share the same short name… ) … and  whatever you’d like to see.

I release the full list, because I want all fans of this game to help me at the following points:

1. If you don’t have much time, please check a few in the list, and give us suggestions to form short names of them. (10 letters at most, space included.)

2. If you have a lot of spare time, please check the whole list, and help to edit the English texts.

3. If you’re familiar with the names and descriptions in Chinese, please help to find out those improperly translated.

I start a thread in the project forum, so you can discuss it there. Or you can start new threads for specific topics on it.

http://waiss.name/forum/viewtopic.php?p=219

Thanks again for your support!

I’m glad to say that the transation of all items and magics will be done and released soon, including the short names, the full names and the full descriptions.

The reason why we’ll realease it first is that we need you help for better short names. And any other suggestions of the translation is are preferred, too.

Please wait for the list for a few more days.

God bless me! Godess Nu Wa bless me! It was like a miracle that I can find my backuped data back and a new space to store it. So the forum and all downloads have been recovered, and you can enjoy them now!

Forum URL: http://waiss.name/forum

I’m very sorry to announce that the forum of this project, http://waiss.name/forum, is closed because the host provider of our web space stop its service recently.

We’re planning a new space from a new provider soon. If we can find one ( of course a stable one ), the forum service and the download of the demo will be resumed. But it would be an empty forum with no previous data reserved. The host provider didn’t give us any of the data backuped.

Merry Christmas to everyone who’s still concerned about our project. We’re sorry to say the time to release the full game is delayed.

Derrick and I were on the first year of our career, so you can imagine how busy we could be. And other members of this project had little time, either, to take care of the project. Derrick told me, he finally came to realize why there were so many fans projects ending up with failure - they started these projects in the campus, but when their campus days came to an end, they wouldn’t have much time to keep them alive.

But we’re in a different situation. We promise we’ll never let go easily. The project IS NOT dead! Hopefully it could be finished the next summer.