[Selfbondage video game] Su Mo's Secret

[equinus]

Recently I ran into a weird RPG-maker game named Su Mo's Secret. The basic concept is that you bind yourself at home, perhaps dropping your keys somewhere in a public park beforehand, and then set out wandering, or to recover the keys. On your way you avoid or encounter random citizens, of whom some bring game over, some others add random restraints to you and a few help to remove them.

   
   
   

I quite like the idea. The game is free itself (Here: https://afdian.net/a/musicbox) but unfortunately distributed only via a Chinese file-hosting service unavailable outside China, and seemingly abandoned by the author in the beta stage. Is there any silimar game to recommend here?

[Tinker D]

Looks like an old 8-Bit Nintendo game.

Hey!!!!
Any sharp programmers out there?
Take an old Zelda game cartridge and change the character files.

[Like Ra]

The basic concept is that you bind yourself at home, perhaps dropping your keys somewhere in a public park beforehand, and then set out wandering, or to recover the keys. On your way you avoid or encounter random citizens, of whom some bring game over, some others add random restraints to you and a few help to remove them.

That would be very interesting in real life! 😋

[equinus]

Looks like an old 8-Bit Nintendo game.

Hey!!!!
Any sharp programmers out there?
Take an old Zelda game cartridge and change the character files.

One can argue that the whole genre of 2D RPG has remained more or less the same since that era.

[dhf7b8g]

I quite like the idea. The game is free itself (Here: https://afdian.net/a/musicbox) but unfortunately distributed only via a Chinese file-hosting service unavailable outside China, and seemingly abandoned by the author in the beta stage. Is there any silimar game to recommend here?

I actually downloaded this game. Seems to have an APK version too for mobile. Getting it running at all on windows was a pain because of some chinese filename shenanigans.

I am tempted to do a quick and dirty MTL so that its at least playable in english since I have quite a bit of fun playing bondage games (might end up reviving the video game bondage thread 😋 )


There are a few web based games similar to this: A three part "series" Lias Adventure: https://aelie.neocities.org/index?g=castle01 + Lias Revenge: https://aelie.neocities.org/index?g=castle02 + Lias Punishment: https://aelie.neocities.org/index?g=castle03 and some stuff from https://bondageprojects.com/


EDIT: Ive actually started translation on this (see attached images). Going to do a rough translation first to make it understandable then go back and tweak Context/UI/Grammar issues while I play it. Bulk translation shouldnt take too long but the cleaning will probably take a while.

Ill upload the game along with the rough translation when thats finished which will (hopefully) allow anyone that plays it to tell me what translations are odd/wrong as I doubt Ill get all 3000+ strings accurate on the first try.

[Lancer]

I quite like the idea. The game is free itself (Here: https://afdian.net/a/musicbox) but unfortunately distributed only via a Chinese file-hosting service unavailable outside China, and seemingly abandoned by the author in the beta stage. Is there any silimar game to recommend here?

I actually downloaded this game. Seems to have an APK version too for mobile. Getting it running at all on windows was a pain because of some chinese filename shenanigans.

I am tempted to do a quick and dirty MTL so that its at least playable in english since I have quite a bit of fun playing bondage games (might end up reviving the video game bondage thread 😋 )


There are a few web based games similar to this: A three part "series" Lias Adventure: https://aelie.neocities.org/index?g=castle01 + Lias Revenge: https://aelie.neocities.org/index?g=castle02 + Lias Punishment: https://aelie.neocities.org/index?g=castle03 and some stuff from https://bondageprojects.com/


EDIT: Ive actually started translation on this (see attached images). Going to do a rough translation first to make it understandable then go back and tweak Context/UI/Grammar issues while I play it. Bulk translation shouldnt take too long but the cleaning will probably take a while.

Ill upload the game along with the rough translation when thats finished which will (hopefully) allow anyone that plays it to tell me what translations are odd/wrong as I doubt Ill get all 3000+ strings accurate on the first try.

Just saying. If you need translation checking let me know. I read Chinese

[dhf7b8g]

Just saying. If you need translation checking let me know. I read Chinese

This would be great actually because I don't, so I have taken a few "creative liberties" to make it readable, but I have kept the main content intact. I'm uploading the game in this message as it's in a playable state. The translation.trans file is a translator++ json file with all the original strings and translations of those strings, so I would imagine that's where you would want to look unless you want to play through two copies of the game at once to compare them.

Every string now has an English counterpart of varying quality

I have played through the whole game once (It's pretty short but ends up as a sandbox when you finish the main storyline) and some parts were just impossible to complete with the rough translation because text doesn't auto wrap so that's great fun
The creators in game character do say the next update is coming in "a long time" and that we "might have forgotten about the game" so maybe it's not dead, and we will get an update after all?

I'm now on my "fixing playthrough" and I have what I would consider acceptable quality for the following:
The main scenes: Home, School, Convenience store, Kidnapping (main route)
The optional areas: Escape room, Creators house and Bondage shop
Most of the items have acceptable translations, although there is inconsistency, some specific items are probably inaccurate but It's mostly fine.

The only remaining area is the mansion, where the final two ending scenes are. It is currently playable, but not a great experience with the current text. The bad ending in the kidnapping scene isn't acceptable quality, but it doesn't impact gameplay.

After you get home from the kidnapping the game doesn't force you into any routes, so you can play as you wish (which is why I'm uploading now)
Download link includes the original PC version, original APK version as well as my translated PC version

https://mega.nz/folder/qZcSRZiK#MxeW9TApvoxBFFlQmk7clQ

[Lancer]

Just saying. If you need translation checking let me know. I read Chinese

This would be great actually because I don't, so I have taken a few "creative liberties" to make it readable, but I have kept the main content intact. I'm uploading the game in this message as it's in a playable state. The translation.trans file is a translator++ json file with all the original strings and translations of those strings, so I would imagine that's where you would want to look unless you want to play through two copies of the game at once to compare them.

Every string now has an English counterpart of varying quality

I have played through the whole game once (It's pretty short but ends up as a sandbox when you finish the main storyline) and some parts were just impossible to complete with the rough translation because text doesn't auto wrap so that's great fun
The creators in game character do say the next update is coming in "a long time" and that we "might have forgotten about the game" so maybe it's not dead, and we will get an update after all?

I'm now on my "fixing playthrough" and I have what I would consider acceptable quality for the following:
The main scenes: Home, School, Convenience store, Kidnapping (main route)
The optional areas: Escape room, Creators house and Bondage shop
Most of the items have acceptable translations, although there is inconsistency, some specific items are probably inaccurate but It's mostly fine.

The only remaining area is the mansion, where the final two ending scenes are. It is currently playable, but not a great experience with the current text. The bad ending in the kidnapping scene isn't acceptable quality, but it doesn't impact gameplay.

After you get home from the kidnapping the game doesn't force you into any routes, so you can play as you wish (which is why I'm uploading now)
Download link includes the original PC version, original APK version as well as my translated PC version

https://mega.nz/folder/qZcSRZiK#MxeW9TApvoxBFFlQmk7clQ

Welp. Time to start translating. Will update with progress.

where text? ah, found it, nasty nasty nasty

JSON hell is right here, fixed a lot of words, if multiple translations are present the first one is the correct one

so much text, translated about half

[dhf7b8g]

Welp. Time to start translating. Will update with progress.

where text? ah, found it, nasty nasty nasty

JSON hell is right here, fixed a lot of words, if multiple translations are present the first one is the correct one

so much text, translated about half

Just to let you know I was using translator++ which provides a nice UI for everything instead of editing raw json, its also the reason for the multiple translations. It would probably make your life easier if you werent aeady using some other RPGmaker translation tool.
The version I used is a patreon build but the latest public build from the developers website is most likely compatible with my translation.trans file, if you are using that as a base.

[equinus]

The author released an update.