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Ability to translate games' pages without creating new projects

A topic by Sírıfys-Al created Jun 17, 2024 Views: 422 Replies: 7
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As rightly stated in the site rules, «Recreating pages <…> has many negative effects. <…> Ratings and reviews <…> are not transferred betwen pages.»

But for games that support multiple languages by default and are designed for a multilingual audience, it is inconvenient to have a page in only one language.

Besides, it is inconvenient to duplicate the game description in different languages on one page, as this spoils the page’s appearance (for example, if the description is big, or it shows game elements with text, etc.)

Also, unfortunately, built-in translators often distort the text or simply do not allow it to be adapted for other languages.

In this case, the most suitable way, in my opinion, is to let the gamedevs to create several subpages with their own translations, which can be switched with buttons.

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You could make a blog post/devlog and put your alternative language game description there. And then link to those pages on your main page.

But if you just do automatic translations on those pages, well, anyone not understanding English browsing on an English website probably has the means to deal with that fact. Like translation in the client browser or something like that.

Recreating pages

This is about deleting a project and creating a "new" project that actually is the old project.

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You could make a blog post/devlog and put your alternative language game description there.

I tried a lot of ways to translate my game page, and the problem of this one is that I can’t make blog posts/devlogs look the same as the main page.

Like translation in the client browser or something like that.

This is what I meant by “built-in translators”.

P. S. But I admit that my post is written very poorly. I should have posted it after I got some sleep.

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Why would it need to look exactly like the game page? You can have text and images, same as on the game page. What more do you need?

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This has been around for more than 6 years: https://itch.io/t/167852/multilingual-game-pages

but still not done. Coincidentally, I’m gonna start to translate my pages today and just found this new thread from you opened two days ago!

I opened a GitHub issue for this: https://github.com/itchio/itch.io/issues/1615

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Wow, seems like the devs are really “productive”… I hope that one day we’ll finally get this feature!..

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Subscribing. My game sells really well in China on Steam and you'd expect there's a Chinese audience which would be interested in DRM free games but the lack of translated descriptions / screenshots makes it harder.

Yeah, this feature would make everything much easier…