Question KSA Localization Initiative

[Aperture]

Hello @Morrow and the KSA team,

With the upcoming Public Release, the community has started organizing itself to localize KSA into various languages.
To help coordinate these efforts — including for other language communities — I have a few questions:

• Have you planned or implemented a way to localize the game into languages other than English?
• If yes, is there any documentation explaining the localization process?
• Should we expect to use a specific tool or workflow for translation (e.g., a localization editor, external software, etc.)?
• Do you intend to use a Git repository or similar version-control system to manage translation files and updates?
• Would it be possible to obtain an initial file containing the English strings/variables so that we can begin preparing the French (and other) localization?
• And more generally, do you have guidelines or preferences regarding how community-driven localization should be organized?

Thank you in advance for your work, and we look forward to your reply.

 

[TROPtastic]

Good idea to create a question for all languages. For any devs that look at this, if you don't want to pay a professional company to translate game strings, CrowdIn or Weblate are probably your best options to involve the community. Weblate in particular is open source software with a lot of flexibility in how it is deployed, and it is used in Captain of Industry (another technical/STEM game) to translate game strings.

 

[τhαlιυm]

As i've suggested as well in the french translation thread, i have a bit of experience with Crowdin, participated a bit on Chromapper and Roughly Enough Items translations.
So if you don't mind i can perhaps create one and invite who wants to help translating?

We could start with the languages who manifested interest in this forum (French, German, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Chinese) and open up as more people wants to help?

Also depends if the game supports Cyrillic characters or any other alphabet than latin in fact

Edit:
Well i got ahead and started the project: https://crwd.in/kitten-space-agency/a7414a7005e7deef8f753abcd7a1da1b2622028
If you want manager rights to help adding strings to translate, feel free to DM me!