General

Thank you

Antoine — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:20:41 GMT

Hi Abel,

I just wanted to thank you for all the work made here, and to wish you luck with your projects

No more updates

Abel Garcia Plaza — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:04:55 GMT

Hi all,

It’s been a long time since I made the last update to this thread’s lists and I’d like to clarify what probably all you already guess: I’m no longer updating the thread. Unfortunately, I just have no time to do so. In fact, I don’t even have time to follow the news and games that are released regularly in this site. I never had time to start my own game but felt I needed to contribute to this adventure somehow and, so, I started this thread. But now I’m basically out of date in terms of XNA knowledge and I no longer consider myself able to continue contributing. Hopefully, I’ll return to this site in the future, when I have some time to spend on this.

Thanks for all your support,

Abel

Re: Games to be playtested/reviewed

Joopsy — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:51:48 GMT

Hello Multi-language folk.

My game, "Flite" is going to have to be reviewed by a variety of peeps, as although it is in English it includes a few words of

French, German and italian in the intro and the last unlockable also includes 1 sentance of french(ish).

Here is the link to it.
http://catalog.xna.com/en-GB/GameDetails.aspx?catalogEntryId=96bbe049-c613-40dd-9b00-90375264c2a9&type=1

Please tell me if there is anything that you think breaks any of the rules or best practices.

Thanks very much.

J.

Re: Games to be playtested/reviewed

Matthew Doucette — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:42:22 GMT

There are no translation offers for English to Japanese. Where or how would I go about finding someone? Please delete this post if it is inappropriate for this thread. But please let me know if you have an answer.

Re: Games to be playtested/reviewed

Abel Garcia Plaza — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:07:04 GMT

Games to be playtested/reviewed updated (4 Oct 2009)

Re: Games to be playtested/reviewed

Abel Garcia Plaza — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:59:23 GMT

Games to be playtested/reviewed updated (28 Sep 2009)

Re: Games to be playtested/reviewed

Abel Garcia Plaza — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:57:34 GMT

Games to be playtested/reviewed updated (27 Sep 2009)

Re: Games to be playtested/reviewed

Abel Garcia Plaza — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:09:46 GMT

Games to be playtested/reviewed updated (23 Sep 2009)

Re: Games to be playtested/reviewed

Abel Garcia Plaza — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:22:28 GMT

Games to be playtested/reviewed updated (21 Sep 2009)

Re: The multilanguage creators meeting point

Laberinto — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:42:09 GMT

Hi Abel. You can include me in the list of the reviewers in spanish languaje (I'm from Spain too).

Re: Games to be playtested/reviewed

Abel Garcia Plaza — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:48:40 GMT

Games to be playtested/reviewed updated (17 Sep 2009)

Re: The multilanguage creators meeting point

PinoEire — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:54:44 GMT

FYI: I'm publishing an Italian Resource File in Dictionary format. It would be nice if some Spanish, German, Japanese and French mother tongue creator are willing to start a similar resource for their own language.

Cheers,
Pino

Why this thread?

Abel Garcia Plaza — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:27:44 GMT

Have you noticed that there are not so much Community Games localized in languages different from English? And do you know why this happens? Well…

On the one hand:

The number of non-English speaking creators is relatively low, and…
Their positive vote is needed in order to pass games in their languages, but...
Not all people are aware of this problem, and…
Even if they are, there’s no official way to be notified when a game needs help (review, translation, etc.), so…
If your game is localized, it could get stuck and, eventually, never be approved.

On the other hand:

Some people want to localize their games, but…
They don’t speak the languages they target, and…
They have no way to find translators for those languages, and…
If they find someone, they still have to face the lack of reviewers for those languages.

Sure you now understand how useful a multilanguage creators meeting point, like this, could be.

Translation offers

Abel Garcia Plaza — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:16:36 GMT

Last updated: 24 Aug 2009

French

of France: Kafel (read the offer for details)

Italian

of Italy: TheMyx (read the offer for details) and PinoEire's Italian Resource File.

Spanish

of Spain: Abel Garcia Plaza (read the offer for details)

German

of Germany: zissakos (read the offer for details)

Speakers

Abel Garcia Plaza — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:16:15 GMT

Last updated: 15 Apr 2009

Spanish

of Spain: Byron Nelson, Trevelyan and Antoine
of Latin America: Trevelyan

French:

of France: Antoine

Italian

of Italy: TheMyx

NOTE: Just speakers of Community Games official languages are displayed here.