How do you do, fellow native English speakers? It is I, Solace, developer of Superheroes Suck and also a fellow native English speaker.
I am the only writer / programmer / render-person for Superheroes Suck. There is no team behind me, and I couldn’t afford one anyway. I do three passes on the text in the game: a proofread after I’ve finished a whole conversation, a second one after using a grammar checker before putting it into the game, and a final one as the event plays in game. I then submit the early build version to a friend of mine who I affectionately refer to as an “Editor” as well as my early build patrons who then sort out the majority of things I’ve missed.
Spelling mistakes and incorrect grammar does still get through, for example because I forgot to remove the “r” from “your” when it needed to be “you” and it just slips passed, or maybe I genuinely want some of the girls to speak incorrectly as part of their inflection. When problems arise, I usually receive a message about it on F95zone, my Patreon inbox, or in my Discord server, where I fix the issue that day or explain why said issue will need to be looked at later on.
I release a new version of the game every six weeks. I actually also prefer a longer development time, but the six week development cycle has been a perfect balance of productivity as well as trust building with my audience. I’ve found, at least for my game, it’s not very reasonable to give an unknown developer ten dollars and then see the results three months later. I know that this means that the updates for Superheroes Suck are short, but if you were to wait for every other release on a psuedo three month schedule, you would find the amount of content you were looking for delivered in the time frame you desire.
I do work a full-time job, so between forty hours on that and forty-five-ish hours each week on Superheroes Suck, I don’t have a lot of time to be flexible with my scheduling and that does take a chunk out of some of the quality control. It’s also a big reason why I’m no longer as active on here as I used to be. My living situation has changed since the game began development and the bills are larger. If you have bugs to report, feel free to do it in a private message on F95zone, on my Patreon, or in the official discord. There are also people on this forum who will submit the bugs that are reported here.
That will be it for me, I’m off to render animations!