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Recently we have managed to translate the game to Russian and now I am considering options to translate the game further. I am considering trying to translate the game to German next, because from what I know, strategy games are very popular in Germany, but most of the players don't know English well enough. The biggest problem is budget - the game so much text that hiring professional translators (especially native speakers) would cost us impossible amounts of money, considering that we are a small indie developer. With Russian translation we have hired students, but since we speak Russian ourselves, we edited the results and got decent translation on a modest budget. Unfortunately we don't know German to do the same with German translation. This is where we need help from players. The plan is to hire local students again to translate and then have German players to proofread the results. I am making this thread so players willing to help us with the German proofreading would sign up here. The more will sign up, the less text would be per player and considering how much text there are we need a lot of help. Therefore if you are willing to help - please let us know and post here! We need only veteran players though, who know the game well enough to understand the context, so only those who play at least 6 moths are preferred, so post how much time have you playing the game already. If you don't speak German, but know TT2 player who knows it, would you kindly send him/her a link to this thread? |
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i'm playing the game for more than two years now, would like to help, asking other german players who are offline in a break too and will send them the link
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Thanks a lot! Let's see how many would sign up to evaluate if we could pull this off together :) |
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started in A3 and i have experience in proofreading. would we get the original text if something is not clear? |
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started in A3 and i have experience in proofreading. would we get the original text if something is not clear?
Yes, we would provide Excel file with English and German lines side by side. |
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I'll follow this thread. I would be glad to help. |
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I'm playing also around 2,5 years now and am a german native speaker. And i would be happy to help with that. |
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Yes, we would provide Excel file with English and German lines side by side.
could i also change the english text if necessary, or is that useless?
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English text would be for reference. |
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I have to say that I think you could really stand a resumption of the English proof reading too. :-) I am still finding things that could be corrected or amended. :-) |
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I will think about it, but this thread is for German translation, so no offtopic :) |
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I am also willing to help, native speaker and i have been playing since the last days of alpha. |
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I would also like to help. I am playing for several years now, I think I started wit A3. I am German (native speaker). |
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Thanks to everyone who is signing up, I have to clarify though - this is a volunteering effort, we will not be able to pay you, only putting your name in German credits if the translation would be a success. |
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I will think about it, but this thread is for German translation, so no offtopic :-)
Thanks! Moving along now. Nothing to see here lol |
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Always awaiting the same thing for french and i will work for free. Please tell le if you are interested. I usually translate softwares in french (IObit softwares, comodo internet security ...). |
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Thank you! If we will succeed with German, surely we will try other languages next. French is one major candidate for sure. |
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I would like to help with the german translation, too. I'm a native speaker and have already helped with the german translation of another game (Ultima 6 project). |
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Thank you! If we will succeed with German, surely we will try other languages next. French is one major candidate for sure.
Then maybe Freddydelanuit can already translate what he sees in the game (tech tree, some dialogs, items...) in files on his computer so he will just have to copy and paste those when you give him the files to translate ? |
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