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[Crowd-sourced Localization] Seeking community localization for Ho-Ho-Home Invasion

A topic by Whitepot Studios created Dec 18, 2020 Views: 475 Replies: 6

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Whitepot Studios3 years ago (3 edits) (+1)

We launched our festive stealth Santa micro-game this week, Ho-Ho-Home Invasion!

Ho-Ho-Home Invasion is a free festive stealth micro-game, made in three weeks, that we definitely didn't consider calling "Santa Game Solid". Help Santa enter houses, deliver presents, and leave - all without being seen or detected by the automated robots his elves have made to help him train.

We've now set up crowd-sourced localization options on Localizor and CrowdIn for those who want to contribute translations in the following languages:

Chinese Simplified
Chinese Traditional
Japanese
Korean
Russian
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Portuguese, Brazilian
Spanish

We're using Localizor as it is a platform specifically built for indie games:
https://www.localizor.com/ho-ho-home-invasion

We're currently adding an in-game option to change language, and that update will be pushed once we have a few more translations. Thanks!

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Crossfire2713 years ago(+1)

I could just offer assisting translations from english to german paragraphs in that case, while preferring testing games on browser than downloads. Also I generally like indie-based games and being open for suggestions if e.g. the translated parts should sound rather easy in understanding or bit unique in words, etc. btw: I'm open for collaborating for free and personally also being open for translating sequels of your game, next to every bits of "ho-ho-home invasion" which sounds like a cool title for upcoming xmas.

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Whitepot Studios3 years ago

Hey thanks so much, that's really helpful. If you contributed on Localizor, be sure to send me your LinkedIn profile or portfolio link so I can add it to the credits/our website :)

I generally like indie-based games and being open for suggestions

I agree! Native speakers know better than I do what works in their own language - for example, we have an achievement called 'Santa Klutz' ('Klutz' being clumsy and a pun on 'Santa Claus') but where that obviously doesn't translate very well, people have used their own cultural references instead and I think that's super cool :)

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Crossfire2713 years ago

I don't use LinkedIn, while references and puns on characters/abilities sound cool (like that mall-security movie that a common actor as main-role and his name bit referring to his body-type too, I guess).

While I think that adding possible puns should be discussed with the origin designer of the game, same if a graphic-animator trying to add colours or shapes and the uploader not even noticing that similarity because he/she didn't know the origin scene e.g. as movie/trailer/game/etc.

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Lara Combina3 years ago(+1)

I found the game really entertaining! I'll give a hand with the Spanish translation^^

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Whitepot Studios3 years ago

Thank you! <3 Be sure to send me your LinkedIn profile or portfolio link so I can add it to the credits/our website.

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Whitepot Studios3 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

Thanks so much everyone who has contributed so far - just put up a new update with the following languages:

French
Spanish
German
Italian
Portuguese (BR)

I'll be doing a more detailed post later, but in the meantime let me know if you find any problems :)

https://whitepotstudios.itch.io/hohohomeinvasion/devlog/207008/quick-localizatio...

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