Localization

chaosmasterro

Is there a way to localize our games? I wanted to localize my game to Chinese, Spanish, and German for iOS or Android games. Am I able to do that?

Hopscotch

@chaosmasterro, sure,

first make an integer game level attribute, e.g.

game.Language

Let each language be represented by a number starting at 1

Let the user be able to choose their language, or set the language before publishing to a country specific app store.

Then for all your text in the game, make a table, like so:

now you can simply use the tableCellValue function in your display text behaviors to display the appropriate text:

tableCellValue(T_Languages, self.ThisWord, game.Language)

the attribute self.ThisWord can also just be the row number in the table, for the appropriate word.

For images which contain text, make a version for each language and put a number at the end of the file name according to the language:

welcome_image_1.png (for english)
welcome_image_2.png (for zulu)

Then in your actor, use the change attribute behavior to select the correct image:

Change Attribute self.image = "welcome_image_"..game.Language

That's it.

chaosmasterro

@Hopscotch said:
@chaosmasterro, sure,

first make an integer game level attribute, e.g.

game.Language

Let each language be represented by a number starting at 1

Let the user be able to choose their language, or set the language before publishing to a country specific app store.

Then for all your text in the game, make a table, like so:

now you can simply use the tableCellValue function in your display text behaviors to display the appropriate text:

tableCellValue(T_Languages, self.ThisWord, game.Language)

the attribute self.ThisWord can also just be the row number in the table, for the appropriate word.

For images which contain text, make a version for each language and put a number at the end of the file name according to the language:

welcome_image_1.png (for english)
welcome_image_2.png (for zulu)

Then in your actor, use the change attribute behavior to select the correct image:

Change Attribute self.image = "welcome_image_"..game.Language

That's it.

I see! This does imply that I know the language to translate it to correct?

Hopscotch

Yes, or you just make words up.

PhilipCC

@Hopscotch said:
Yes, or you just make words up.

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