MarkoH01: Yay! I am credited for the German localisation for this one. :) I am also still waiting for the promised patch to arrive on GOG. It has been about 8 months since I last talked to Pete from Whitepapergames. I guess it's time to remind him that he promised me this update will arrive in 2018 :) A fine game - love it with all of my heart. Unfortunately there might still occur some game breaking bugs even though I managed to finish it without such bugs ... fingers crossed. When you finally understood the game completely you will realize how good it actually is.
And it is NOT a walking simulator at all. The puzzles might be optional but only if you solve all of them you will completely understand every bit of it.
muntdefems: Oh, don't get me wrong. As long as their story is good, I love walking simulators, even those without any puzzles at all. :P
What I'm sorry about is that, if I'm granted the game, I won't be able to appreciate your localisation (even if it was added right now) as I know next to nothing of German. :\
Oh I undertood you but it is just as I said, imo Ether One is far from being a walking simulator in every sense. It is more Myst like and I'd never call Myst a walking simulator either. One might call it an "optional" walking simulator since you just have to solve one puzzle and collect all ribbons and you are done if you'd like to have it this way (no option to not solve this one puzzle though - all others are optional). The devs intention was to give people to simply enjoy the story or to really dive in and solve all puzzles (which I would really recommend as said).
German knowledge or not you still will spot my names in the credits though :)
The devs are really nice and it was fun working with them when I did the German localisation (complete from scratch and the game has lots of text - did this every day after work and on weekends) using google drive and while typing suddenly Pete typed "What is German for xxx" and I just typed my answer, It felt awesome. Unfortunately so far they refused to update GOG since the actual update that Steam already has since last year WILL break savegames and they don't want to risk this. Also they had to change their programmer and they are working on their next game, they are only six and so on. Pete sent me a handwritten christmas card last year (after I told him that I am sick of waiting and started to doubt him) on which he promised me (promised was underlined multiple times) "We promise to patch Ether One to the quality that is reflecting of your hard work and attention to detail." So I decided to leave them alone for a while and give them another chance. But it probably is the time to remind them. I will not give up on this patch as long as I am not told that it won't arrive.