Hello! Obviously I have not been able to do what I had hoped to do with continuing my writing and development of this mod. Two years ago I returned to full-time employment after working for myself for so many years, and it has sapped my time and energy. I haven't even had time to play the latest update to Stardew Valley. So after a NexusMods user reached out to me, I decided to update my stance on some things for True Love Valley.
THIS MOD This mod, the English version of True Love Valley, is still something I want to work on. I am not looking for collaborators to help me finish it. It's a passion project for me, even if I haven't been able to be passionate for a while now. If you're looking to write dialogue for SDV, creating your own mod is simple enough. You could even look at the files of this mod and replace all the dialogue I've written with your own. I don't mind if you copy the framework I've used. But please do not copy or publish any of the English dialogue I have written. Please. I implore you, don't do it. I've had to deal with people stealing my dialogue in the past and it's demotivating and will put me even further from completing this if I think someone is just going to steal my work and republish it. I sincerely appreciate the consideration for my work and my own personal well-being.
LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONS It was brought to my attention that a Spanish translation already exists at the time of this writing. I did not approve of this. But I have decided that it's selfish of me to maintain my stance on translations when I've been inactive for so long. So from now on, I am allowing language translations. But I do have a couple rules. 1) Please link back to my mod and reference it on your mod page. 2) Do a good translation; if you're going to just feed my English dialogue through translator software and publish it, I do not approve of that. That's lazy. You can use a translator to assist you, but please don't just do an automatic translation without reading it. I worked very hard on the dialogue that's here, and if you want to do a translation of it I would like you to actually care about it. Please do me that personal favor as a member of the SDV community if you want to translate True Love Valley. I will not be including translations in this mod, so if you want to do a translation of True Love Valley you will have to also publish it as a separate mod.
THANK YOU Thank you everyone for all the support you've given me over the years. I so wish I had completed this mod back when I started it so that it could all be wrapped up for you all. But it just didn't work out like that. I'm trying hard for a better work-life balance and I so very much want to get back to my personal creative projects like True Love Valley. I appreciate you all sticking with me, enjoying the mod in its beta state, and just generally being an understanding community. Thank you so very much.
Is this mod still being worked on? I saw the last time it was updated was 2021. I've been wanting to download this mod for some time, but I'm still waiting for Alex to be added.
When you have time, would it be possible to make it so that the other bachelors and bachelorettes don't continue flirting with you once you're married? I'm married in my file, but I also have an 8 heart friendship with several of the other single characters, and it makes my friendship awkward with them when they keep asking me to skinny dip! X'D
you can probably just turn off the characters you don't want the dialogue for in the config file. that should return their dialogue to the vanilla version.
this mod is a work in progress and it says so in the mod description. the only romanceable characters that are completed so far are Abigail, Haley, Leah, Penny, Sebastian, and Shane.
💀 eta: ok, so i decided to take a look at the files. there are 10 mentions of the word "feet" and 6 of "foot." this is out of over ~1000 lines, so it's really not *that* much. i think out of those, probably 75% were questionable.
Okay on further inspection, three(ish) of the references that aren't idioms (e.g. 'two left feet) are bachelor(ette)s offering to massage the farmer's feet at the end of the day, which I don't think is weird. But Haley does directly ask you about how her feet look in a pair of sandals and goes on about what cute feet she has. So. That's a little more on the nose (or on the toes, I suppose).
So this doesn't seem to work with mods like the girl mod or mods that make name changes as this changes their names right back. Just wondering if there is a way to make it compatiable.
From what I've seen myself, it's 50% done character wise. I haven't been through all of the character routes that are available yet but I have enjoyed the couple that I have. Hopefully linenpants feels better soon.
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THIS MOD
This mod, the English version of True Love Valley, is still something I want to work on. I am not looking for collaborators to help me finish it. It's a passion project for me, even if I haven't been able to be passionate for a while now. If you're looking to write dialogue for SDV, creating your own mod is simple enough. You could even look at the files of this mod and replace all the dialogue I've written with your own. I don't mind if you copy the framework I've used. But please do not copy or publish any of the English dialogue I have written. Please. I implore you, don't do it. I've had to deal with people stealing my dialogue in the past and it's demotivating and will put me even further from completing this if I think someone is just going to steal my work and republish it. I sincerely appreciate the consideration for my work and my own personal well-being.
LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONS
It was brought to my attention that a Spanish translation already exists at the time of this writing. I did not approve of this. But I have decided that it's selfish of me to maintain my stance on translations when I've been inactive for so long. So from now on, I am allowing language translations. But I do have a couple rules. 1) Please link back to my mod and reference it on your mod page. 2) Do a good translation; if you're going to just feed my English dialogue through translator software and publish it, I do not approve of that. That's lazy. You can use a translator to assist you, but please don't just do an automatic translation without reading it. I worked very hard on the dialogue that's here, and if you want to do a translation of it I would like you to actually care about it. Please do me that personal favor as a member of the SDV community if you want to translate True Love Valley. I will not be including translations in this mod, so if you want to do a translation of True Love Valley you will have to also publish it as a separate mod.
THANK YOU
Thank you everyone for all the support you've given me over the years. I so wish I had completed this mod back when I started it so that it could all be wrapped up for you all. But it just didn't work out like that. I'm trying hard for a better work-life balance and I so very much want to get back to my personal creative projects like True Love Valley. I appreciate you all sticking with me, enjoying the mod in its beta state, and just generally being an understanding community. Thank you so very much.
eta: ok, so i decided to take a look at the files. there are 10 mentions of the word "feet" and 6 of "foot." this is out of over ~1000 lines, so it's really not *that* much. i think out of those, probably 75% were questionable.