{"id":2499,"date":"2019-02-05T16:41:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T16:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chucklefish.org\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2019-02-05T16:41:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T16:41:03","slug":"new-languages-available-for-timespinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chucklefish.org\/blog\/new-languages-available-for-timespinner\/","title":{"rendered":"New Languages Available for Timespinner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hey everyone, great news! \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After several months of hard work,\nTimespinner is now playable in <strong>French<\/strong>, <strong>German<\/strong>, <strong>Spanish<\/strong>,\n<strong>Brazilian Portuguese<\/strong>, <strong>Russian<\/strong>, <strong>Simplified Chinese<\/strong>,\nand <strong>Japanese<\/strong>! These new languages are available on right now\non <strong>Steam<\/strong>, <strong>PS4<\/strong> and <strong>PS Vita<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"572\" src=\"https:\/\/chucklefish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Timespinner_Birthday_RU-1024x572.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chucklefish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Timespinner_Birthday_RU-1024x572.png 1024w, https:\/\/chucklefish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Timespinner_Birthday_RU-600x335.png 600w, https:\/\/chucklefish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Timespinner_Birthday_RU-444x248.png 444w, https:\/\/chucklefish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Timespinner_Birthday_RU-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/chucklefish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Timespinner_Birthday_RU.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Timespinner is a beautiful 2D\nmetroidvania about a young woman who travels through time to exact\nrevenge on the evil empire that killed her family. The game was\nsuccessfully Kickstarted in July 2014 and was released in September\n2018.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Creating and releasing Timespinner has\nbeen quite a journey. Much to my chagrin, that journey did not end\nonce the game was released. It\u2019s been almost half a year since then\nand I\u2019m still working every day to improve the game. From community\nmanagement and bug fixes, to new features and quality-of-life\nimprovements, I\u2019ve had my hands full! One of the biggest tasks I\u2019ve\nbeen working on is localizing the game with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.riotloc.com\/\">RiotLoc<\/a>\n(they\u2019re great btw, please check them out!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things I wish I knew about localizing a game<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Since Timespinner is my first released\ngame, I\u2019ve definitely made a fair share of mistakes and learned\nmany new things along the way. The area of localization has\nparticularly been a fun source of development problems! In order to\nhelp other game devs learn from my mistakes, I\u2019ve made a list!\nEnjoy \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Pull all displayed text out of\n\tthe game and into an external file, such as a spreadsheet.<\/strong> This\n\tone seems pretty obvious, but the longer you go before starting this\n\tprocess, the longer it\u2019ll take to extract all text! I\u2019m glad I\n\tdid this relatively early, only a couple of years into development,\n\tbut even then, it was super tedious and boring to complete. Once you\n\thave this file, you can hand it directly to the localization team!\n\tEasy!\n\t<\/li><li><strong>Character dialogue lines: Keep\n\ttrack of who is speaking and who they are speaking to. <\/strong>This\n\tcomes in handy for languages where it can affect how it\u2019s\n\ttranslated. You can also use this information in-game to\n\tautomatically detect who\u2019s talking. For example, Timespinner uses\n\tthis speaker info to display character portraits and name headers\n\tfor dialogue boxes!\n\t<\/li><li><strong>Keep a master list of\n\tcharacters that speak or are spoken to<\/strong>. You\u2019ll want to keep\n\ttrack of all characters\u2019 gender, age, occupation, their\n\trelationships to other characters, how their name is pronounced, as\n\twell as unique things such as faction and mythological race (you\u2019d\n\ttalk differently to a demon or a god, wouldn\u2019t you?). This info\n\tcan help with languages that use genders, relationships, and status\n\twhen speaking to others.\n\t<\/li><li><strong>Pick Fonts carefully<\/strong>.\n\tYou\u2019ll want to use Fonts that support extended Latin characters as\n\twell as Cyrillic characters. I made the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pentacom.jp\/pentacom\/bitfontmaker2\/gallery\/?id=1298\">Font\n\tfor Timespinner<\/a> myself, so I had to personally make sure that\n\tall required characters were created. For Asian languages, you\u2019ll\n\tlikely need a new font, too!\n\t<\/li><li><strong>Design UI as if all text was\n\tlonger. <\/strong>This one was a big headache for Timespinner. English is\n\tactually a very concise language. It can sometimes take around 50%\n\tmore space to say the same thing in other languages than it does in\n\tEnglish. In order to combat this, I had to add text fields that\n\twould automatically scroll if they got too wide for their allotted\n\tspace.\n\t<\/li><li><strong>Design UI as if all text was\n\ttaller.<\/strong> Similar to the above problem, I found that my Asian\n\tfonts were a few pixels taller than my Latin fonts. Thankfully, this\n\tdidn\u2019t end up being too hard to work around, but it\u2019s something\n\tto keep in mind if you\u2019re using smaller pixel-art fonts where size\n\tmatters!\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/chucklefish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ramparts_CN-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chucklefish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ramparts_CN-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chucklefish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ramparts_CN-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/chucklefish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ramparts_CN-441x248.jpg 441w, https:\/\/chucklefish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ramparts_CN-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chucklefish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ramparts_CN.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Use pre-rendered text sparingly. <\/strong>Pre-rendered text can look super awesome in game! Just keep in mind that each time you make this art, you\u2019ll likely have to remake it for each and every language you localize the game in!  <\/li><li><strong>Cull debug and unused text from the game before sending it to be localized. <\/strong>Yeaaah, so, I forgot to do this before having Timespinner localized. Since localization teams tend to charge per word, debug text can turn into wasted time and money for everyone. Oops! <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Wee, development pitfalls! Despite the\nhiccups along the way, I\u2019m super happy with how Timespinner\u2019s\nlocalization has turned out. I\u2019m excited to see how people enjoy\nthe game in languages other than English!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Timespinner is <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/368620\/Timespinner\/\">currently on sale<\/a> during the Steam Lunar New Year Sale &#8211; it&#8217;s available for <strong>10% off<\/strong>! If you&#8217;ve been holding out for more language support or thinking about checking it out, right now is a great time to pick it up!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s all for now! Time to start\nworking on console ports! Yayyy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for reading, everyone, and happy\nLunar New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everyone, great news! After several months of hard work, Timespinner is now playable in French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese! These new languages are available on right now on Steam, PS4 and PS Vita! Timespinner is a beautiful 2D metroidvania about a young woman who travels through time to exact revenge on the evil empire that killed her family. The game was successfully Kickstarted in July 2014 and was released in September 2018. Creating and releasing Timespinner has been quite a journey. 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