Portuguese Brazilian Translation Effort

[Magnus Helvetti]

Just recently I've finished translating an indie game called Terroir, and seeing some posts (not here) about the lack of translation to my mother tongue, I was hoping if I could be enlightened if this is possible. I've never played the game in another language, but I assume every string and every menu option can be translated, yes?


I'm not even going to recruit anyone (at least not at first) as to not take consistency and quality away from my translation.


Is this possible? *points finger* Let's find out!

 

[Rakdar]

Just recently I've finished translating an indie game called Terroir, and seeing some posts (not here) about the lack of translation to my mother tongue, I was hoping if I could be enlightened if this is possible. I've never played the game in another language, but I assume every string and every menu option can be translated, yes?


I'm not even going to recruit anyone (at least not at first) as to not take consistency and quality away from my translation.


Is this possible? *points finger* Let's find out!

I assume it is and that it would basically amount to translating the localisation files (all of them). I know that some mods have translations, such as the French translation for AGOT, so there shouldn't be anything stopping you from doing it other than the massive and quite probably boring time investment.

 

[Magnus Helvetti]

I assume it is and that it would basically amount to translating the localisation files (all of them). I know that some mods have translations, such as the French translation for AGOT, so there shouldn't be anything stopping you from doing it other than the massive and quite probably boring time investment.

Alright. I'll give it a go.

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

Alright. I'll give it a go.

There is a german translation improvement mod, the french one got included to the game, there is even russian and thai on the Workshop,
so portuguese should be perfectly feasable i would think.

Recently a tool had been released which is supposed to make it easier and quicker:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/tool-translate-helper.1043308/

edit: oh i see you posted there already..

 

[vicbus]

Hey Magnus, if you need any help, count me in.

Brs unite!

 

[Magnus Helvetti]

Thanks for the offers. Once it's in a playable state, I'm going to need a lot of testing - don't worry, I will PM all of you.

 

[Magnus Helvetti]

I started to play around the Key Words. They all are WIP.

It's sad that I can't post in a Portuguese Forum, as we do not have one.

If you have any suggestion of word choice, please send me a PM.

Once it's in a releasable state, I'll post another thread with it!

(Since the screenshot, I've already made some changes)

 

[Falloutgamer]

I'll speak in portuguese for convenience:
honestamente, fico surpreso que alguém da comunidade brasileira se levante ao trabalho de traduzir o jogo e espero que você
consiga fazê-lo de maneira limpa, porém eu acho que em um canto você vai acabar tendo um pouco de dificuldade: os adjetivos e os pronomes masculinos/femininos.
Já que nacionalidades não tem gênero no inglês, fica bastante complicado traduzir "French Africa" pra "África Francesa" e ao mesmo tempo traduzir "French Egypt" pra "Egito Francês". Isso claro, sem contar outros problemas que vem dessa diferença linguística. Enfim, eu lhe desejo boa sorte e bom trabalho

 

[vicbus]

I'll speak in portuguese for convenience:
honestamente, fico surpreso que alguém da comunidade brasileira se levante ao trabalho de traduzir o jogo e espero que você
consiga fazê-lo de maneira limpa, porém eu acho que em um canto você vai acabar tendo um pouco de dificuldade: os adjetivos e os pronomes masculinos/femininos.
Já que nacionalidades não tem gênero no inglês, fica bastante complicado traduzir "French Africa" pra "África Francesa" e ao mesmo tempo traduzir "French Egypt" pra "Egito Francês". Isso claro, sem contar outros problemas que vem dessa diferença linguística. Enfim, eu lhe desejo boa sorte e bom trabalho

I understand what you mean, but the titles are not displayed like that in CK2, you are thinking of colonial nations from EU4 or Vic2. If you conquer Egypt as a Catholic your title would just be King of Egypt (Rei do Egito) or Queen of Egypt (Rainha do Egito), holder of the Kingdom of Egypt title (Reino do Egito). But I agree the genders would be a problem in many instances, like standardized events. One solution would be using all male adjective and nouns in events and sacrifice a little bit of immersion.

(Nice "br comuna" avatar by the way haha)

 

[Magnus Helvetti]

Yes, I'll gender them male, as it is more standard. When I can I will include (a). There isn't a better solution...

 

[xXConquerorXx]

Yes, I'll gender them male, as it is more standard. When I can I will include (a). There isn't a better solution...

Or you could use a gender neutral term, like Majesty (Majestade).

 

[Magnus Helvetti]

Progress is happening, peeps! I've created a subreddit, /r/pdoxbr, for us homeless Brazilians (tugas are welcome), and further updates will be posted there. I won't update this thread anymore, I'll post a new one after a truly playable beta is uploaded.

Please go check the subreddit out, I'm going to update the translation there for the time being!