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Translating Game Dev Tycoon - We need your help!

Patrick February 25, 2013 30 Comments

We need your help! Wir brauchen deine Hilfe! Votre aide est nécessaire!

Since the release of Game Dev Tycoon we had a number of players offering their help to translate the game into their own language. We have thought long and hard about how we can best provide translations for our game and in the end we came to the conclusion that a collaborative translation is the best way to proceed.

There are several reasons for this:

1. Game Dev Tycoon has, with more than 15000 words, a lot more text than similar games.
2. Game Dev Tycoon has many gaming references that only gamers would understand and be able to translate properly.
3. To properly translate a game the translator should be intimately aware of the game.
4. Only someone who truly enjoys the game will do its translation justice.
5. Using collaborative translations is the only feasible way we can support many languages quickly and on demand.

We have set up a web application to allow collaborative translations and tested it for a week by starting the German translation. Now, we want to invite fans of Game Dev Tycoon to help us out.

If you want to help us translate the game then your help would be most welcome!

You can visit our translation app at: http://translate.greenheartgames.com

We will also open more languages on demand but need a certain amount of interest before we unlock them. If you like to help translating the game in a language or you want to become a moderator for an existing language then please let your intentions be known on our brand new forum.

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30 Responses to Translating Game Dev Tycoon – We need your help!

  • Erik
    2 / 25 / 2013

    Will translaters get in-game credits? Where are the credits anyway?

    Erik 2 / 25 / 2013
  • Patrick
    2 / 25 / 2013

    Generally, I’d say yes but there are probably practical limits to that. We have over 1200 strings to be translated per language. Because anyone can suggest edits we can’t really know how many people will contribute to a translation and I wouldn’t want to include peoples name somewhere unless they are happy for us to do that. I certainly want to give credit where credit is due. I guess compiling a list of the most prolific translators when the translation is finished would be the best way to do that. In any case, by signing up to the translate app contributors will have their name listed there already.

    Patrick 2 / 25 / 2013
  • Vo Hoang Hac
    2 / 26 / 2013

    Vietnamese please.

    I’m from Vietnam.

    Vo Hoang Hac 2 / 26 / 2013
    • Zakumy
      3 / 23 / 2013

      Me too, Vietnamese please !!

      Zakumy 3 / 23 / 2013
  • nerold
    2 / 27 / 2013

    Czech language please!

    nerold 2 / 27 / 2013
    • Rikudou_Sennin
      5 / 17 / 2013

      I already made czech version…

      Rikudou_Sennin 5 / 17 / 2013
  • Teo Test
    3 / 10 / 2013

    I can help you translating it (:

    into GREEK language
    and/or GERMAN language.

    Teo Test.

    Teo Test 3 / 10 / 2013
  • Zakumy
    3 / 23 / 2013

    Because I’m a phan of GameDevTy, I will help translate it ^^ very pleasure …

    Zakumy 3 / 23 / 2013
  • Frozone
    4 / 20 / 2013

    Буду благодарен за Русский перевод этой замечательной игры!
    I would be grateful for the Russian translation of this great game!

    Frozone 4 / 20 / 2013
  • tuka
    4 / 29 / 2013

    Add Russian. I’ll help with translation.

    tuka 4 / 29 / 2013
  • Fergend
    4 / 30 / 2013

    I can help in Chinese version.

    Fergend 4 / 30 / 2013
  • Nugroho Latifolia
    4 / 30 / 2013

    Indonesian ready here !

    Nugroho Latifolia 4 / 30 / 2013
    • wijaya.pas@gmail.com
      5 / 1 / 2013

      one indonesian here too !!

      wijaya.pas@gmail.com 5 / 1 / 2013
  • asdf
    5 / 2 / 2013

    You are selling your game and make profit, you want people to contribute it without paying people back? Man, you are not hosting an open-source project here.

    asdf 5 / 2 / 2013
  • Alexander Lingtorp
    5 / 2 / 2013

    I can do the swedish! 🙂

    Alexander Lingtorp 5 / 2 / 2013
  • muszkaPOL
    5 / 4 / 2013

    Please translating Polish !! 😀

    muszkaPOL 5 / 4 / 2013
  • James Costa
    5 / 5 / 2013

    I finish the first play in the game yesterday, and it’s awesome!
    I’m missed some features, making me eager to play it again 😀 I can help with the Brazilian Portuguese translations ^^

    James Costa 5 / 5 / 2013
  • Peter
    5 / 5 / 2013

    I can help with Dutch translation

    Peter 5 / 5 / 2013
  • Simon
    5 / 8 / 2013

    know 4 different language, best in chinese and english

    Simon 5 / 8 / 2013
  • gotty
    5 / 8 / 2013

    I can do Czech for you, if you consider adding this language…

    gotty 5 / 8 / 2013
  • Mickael
    5 / 9 / 2013

    Hi !
    I am a native french speaker.
    So I could help you for french translation.

    Mickael 5 / 9 / 2013
  • BlackQwar
    5 / 10 / 2013

    I will gladly help to translate this epic game into Czech language.

    I enjoyed this game very much and I would love to help you in every possible way. Your attitude towards game developing is fantastic. It warms my heart to see someone like you!

    Czech Republic is small country like your dev team so we have smililar feelings of wanting to get our place in this big world. Give us chance to translate your game into our national language and let us inspire our fellow Czechs by your story!

    BlackQwar 5 / 10 / 2013
  • becikx
    5 / 12 / 2013

    I can help with Polish translation.

    becikx 5 / 12 / 2013
  • Cristian Venticinque
    5 / 12 / 2013

    I’m From Argentina, my Home language is Spanish and I could contribute with the Spanish translation and a LatinAmerican localized one too if it’s on plan.

    Cristian Venticinque 5 / 12 / 2013
  • Tobias Gschwandtner
    5 / 13 / 2013

    I can Translate into German, French, Korean and Spanish.

    Tobias Gschwandtner 5 / 13 / 2013
  • Oceano Bollard
    5 / 16 / 2013

    I can translate in French !! I’m Ready ! =)

    Oceano Bollard 5 / 16 / 2013
  • Andrea
    5 / 20 / 2013

    Hello,
    could you please add the italian language to the translate app? Please see italian translation topic in your forum. Thanks.

    Andrea 5 / 20 / 2013
  • PittoBit
    5 / 23 / 2013

    Italian pleaseeee
    so i can help you
    🙂

    PittoBit 5 / 23 / 2013
  • مترجم چینی
    6 / 22 / 2013

    I do consider all of the ideas you have presented for your post. They are very convincing and will definitely work. Still, the posts are too quick for beginners. May just you please lengthen them a bit from next time? Thank you for the post.

    مترجم چینی 6 / 22 / 2013
  • indeed
    6 / 22 / 2013

    well, you’ve got a point

    indeed 6 / 22 / 2013
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