averagemoe
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I've seen that the download page has French and German language help files, and I got to thinking, what about official foreign translations of the games? Find some casts of voice actors overseas, record the dialogue in other languages. Give DROD to the world.

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averagemoe wrote:
I've seen that the download page has French and German language help files, and I got to thinking, what about official foreign translations of the games? Find some casts of voice actors overseas, record the dialogue in other languages. Give DROD to the world.

Yes, the game supports alternative language packs for homemade and official holds.

There is an official Russian translation for most of the games. If we were to go after professional translation and dubbing ourselves, that would cost a LOT and wouldn't be viable at the scale we operate at. Volunteers are welcome to produce localized versions of the text for import into the game.

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Topic on translating Flash DROD seems relevant. Some very interesting points about the difficulty of translating DROD's unique terminology.

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