[Yahtzee]

I think regarding the making of special translatey versions it's very much a case of cannot be arsed right now. Day job, magazine, Aberrant, personal projects and so on. Also I just got the Doom 3 expansion and that shit isn't going to play itself.

[Blueskirt]

... And what has Yahtzee to do with that, anyway?

Straight from the FR's news archive:

27/11/06: Bits And Pieces

The independent game company I work with, Gridwerx, has produced some demos of our current little projects, available to download on the website. Check them out, do. There's an adventure game demo by me and a puzzle game demo by my real world mate Scott. Help us out, 'cos we'd kind of like to become a professional company that actually makes money at some point.

There is also a fiction that Yahtzee wrote on that page for the Gridwerx Genesis project.

This post has been edited by Blueskirt: 15 June 2007 - 11:38 PM

[AdamM]

Aberrant

Wassat?

[Blueskirt]

Ahem:

...dealing with the issues caused when some people at Gridwerx splitted to create Aberrant Entertainment...

Be more attentive, student AdamM, it will be in the exam tomorrow!

[AdamM]

I don't normally bother checking beyond the last page of the thread...

*looks up Aberrant*

That's it? Just a homepage? I loathe sites that do that.

[Gekko]

Hello, Fully Ramblomatic community!

I noticed 5DAS on "free games" page on a finnish computer and technology magazine Mikrobitti. I ended up downloading it and the rest of the games. Now I am here.

Later I noticed this translation thingy and tried 5DAS with finnish translation. The result was somewhat, if I may say, interesting. The "voice" was so different comparing to english version and the feeling was... different. Anyway, I would like to translate 7DAS to finnish, but I have no idea how to do it. What tools do I need?

[David-kyo]

Greetings,

You don't need any tool for it, you get a text file with the lines from the game, and you have to write the Finnish version under the original ones. That's it. But if I recall correctly, Yahtzee also said something about not having the 7DAS source file anymore so it cannot be translated.

What exactly do you mean by "voice"?

[Gekko]

What exactly do you mean by "voice"?

The voice I imagine the characters use when I read the texts. I don't know if it is normal when people are reading a book, but it happens to me always. When I played the english version, the voice was somewhat cooler. When I played the finnish version, it was... stupid? I don't know, it must be because I mostly read english texts...

This post has been edited by Gekko: 19 June 2007 - 02:52 PM

[David-kyo]

So basically what you're trying to put across is that the translation was screwed up because the bloke who made it tried to be too literate, and what sounds alright in English may sound stupid in another language.
Happens too often to fanmade translations, gah.

[Gekko]

Well, it's not quite that. The translation was just nice and so. It could be compared to watching a good movie with original language (english) and then watching it dubbed in finnish. It sounds stupid as the characters don't "act" like a fin would act when talking. When reading in games like 5DAS, it works pretty much the same way.

This post has been edited by Gekko: 19 June 2007 - 04:09 PM

[David-kyo]

Oh? Then that's probably because the characters of the game are British, and only speak Finnish because of some unexplained reason. Dunno, can't speak that language, so I'm still not quite sure what you mean until you mention a concrete example.

[Gekko]

An example eh... As I can't name one, I quess that means finnish is a stupid language =) (I think I saw finnish ranked 3rd hardest language in the world in some webpage)

[HITCH]

HI GUYS,
I'M AN ITALIAN GUY AND I'D LIKE TO TRANSLATE 7 DAYS A SKEPTIC, TRILBY'S NOTES AND 6 DAYS A SACRIFICE.....WHAT HAVE I DO????? DO I NEED A TOOL OR SOMETHING ELSE??

[David-kyo]

First you need to take the paperweight off the shift key. But it's not likely to happen for a while anyway.

Or was this just a feeble attempt on your part to be funny?

[HITCH]

No....I was just looking for a good HEX editor to translate, but I found it.....