So as 404 Games kick into high gear with ‘In Da Hood’, many people, including Terranova, have started wondering: what, exactly, do you get banned for in a hip-hop themed world? But I want to go into a more interesting digression: What San Andreas taught me about localization. Continue reading
Category: Localization Woes (Page 2 of 2)
Last week, Kotaku reported that China banned a game for recognizing Taiwan as being a sovereign state. I mailed this news to a friend of mine, who is a nut for Championship Manager (which is, btw, probably the most popular game in the world that you’ve never heard of). His thoughts were good:
Interesting… This is indeed a strange one… Especially since Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and Tibet all have national teams and are affiliated with FIFA in real life. I don’t see China ever pulling out of the World Cup because of this… Continue reading
I was ICQ’ed this babelfish translation of Chinese press copy for Shadowbane.
“In the evil spirit sword world, the swarthy skin, glistens the armor, you are the soldier, strong powerful half giant soldier. In the evil spirit sword world, neat sends the hair bun, the red master ��, you are the evil spirit master, attractive humanity evil spirit master. In the evil spirit sword world, aside the body black leopard, commander-in-chief is mad the hunter short coverall, you are the female hunter, fills the jungle breath demon female hunter. Outside evil spirit sword world? I ���� take off the hard helmet, I want to see outside the game world that you.”
Thanks, Babelfish!
I’ve found the most intriguing and addictive online game put up in the last 3 years. Create a nation, determine its level of political freedom, and lead as a benevolent ruler or a tyrannical despot. Unfortunately, the game is apparently running on an old Texas Instruments calculator, or something else that really can’t handle the load, but the game is nice in that it scales well to the level of involvement you want. You can put in a minute a day, and have something very near the BBS games of old, or you can join the United Nations and take part in the debates (which are, I might add, well worth the price of admission). Continue reading
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