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I'm looking for people to translate a game and then test the translation (play through the game).

Now let's talk about the business stuff first. It's for pay, but here's how it works. You won't become rich from this. For 3 months you'll get 100% of the profits from the region(s) in which the language is the national language or whatever, and if some region has a more than 1 (I'm thinking of French in Canada) you'll get 50% of that also. To be fair, I take the highest amount earned (I'm thinking French could possibly be that if someone decides to do that translation) and everybody gets that amount for their translation. So if you translate for a small region where not many people are likely to buy, you get the same amount as someone translating for a larger demographic. To give a figure, and this is not guaranteed or anything but people have already translated the game to some languages and they're making $24.06 CAD for May (they'll be paid for June and July also). For sales where I have no region data, the shares will be projected based on the regions where I do.

So, I probably said most of what I need to say. The game is Monster RPG 2 [www.monster-rpg.com]. It sells on the iOS App Store, the Mac App Store, Ubuntu Software Center, and directly from my website (http://www.nooskewl.com). One thing I should mention is that I don't know if I have or can find a suitable CJK font for Japanese/Chinese/Korean translations, but if I can those would be great. I'll check into it if anyone can provide such a translation. About the size of the job, there are 946 lines to translate, some of them are single words and some of them are small paragraphs. The English translation has around 35K characters. Next thing of note is that the next release of the game (You will be paid starting then) could take a while as I've got an artist retouching all of the player battle sprites in his spare time. On top of that, I get paid the month after the end of the selling month. So if the artist finishes in 2 months, you wouldn't receive any money until 4 months from now.

Also should mention translator/testers will get translating/testing credits in the game too.

Ok big ramblings over. Let me know, but please do not apply if you're not completely serious about finishing and doing a good job.

Thanks.

I can translate the game in Greek if you are interested.
Makis

Thanks makis, can I send you a PM with some more details?

P.S.: I'm very sorry but I forgot to mention that Polish, Spanish, and German translations are already done for this game.

Yes you can trentg, no problemo!

To update, I now have translators for Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Slovenian, and Greek (and German, Spanish, Polish are already done). I really really want a French translation and will accept any others too.

French translation is being done now. Still will accept others.

Sorry, but you say Spanish is completed, maybe next time.

Yo soy hablante de español nativo por si necesitas otra ayuda.

Hablante? :p

yes, It's a real word, It mean speaker.

I can translate to Portuguese, I'm Portuguese!

Is that Portuguese of Brazil or Portugal/Europe/etc?

Portuguese from Portugal. If I were from Brazil, I'd say I'm brazilian ;)

ha! I just saw the "brazilian portuguese" in the description, sorry! For some reason I read it "Brazilian, Portuguese" ;)

Oh, I could use a Portuguese translation. I will PM you.

I said French is covered but I could use a France/European French translation as well. The translator I have is doing a Canadian French translation.

I can translate it in Italian  :) Just send me a PM!

I can cover a European French translation.

Hi! Do you need the game translated into Swedish?

Oskar Alex

Wow, I'm really pleasantly surprised at how many people have responded! Thank you all!

FuzzWarrior: I have someone for the European French translation, if that doesn't work out then I will PM you! Thanks!

Hello again. I have a Dutch translator and he's finished his first draft. There's a problem though. The game uses OpenGL and it runs really slowly on his computer. If anyone here would like to split the job with him, all you'd have to do is basically test the game and make minor corrections as they come up when you're playing. Let me know if you're interested!

I'm going to call that it folks. At least for this revision. If any latecomers come by with new languages to translate to, maybe we can work them into the next-next update, but that's a few months down the road. For everyone who is translating, if I didn't mention, I'd like to have all of the translations in by the middle of July so we can make an August 1st release. Now I will prepare versions of the game binary that include all of the new languages, so you don't have to edit a "Polish" translation :D. Thanks.

By the middle of July ? got it =)

Italian translation completed!

Swedish translator seems to have given up, lost interest, or disappeared. Would welcome another Swedish translator!

Thanks,
Trent

Actually he has resurfaced now.

I'd like to nominate Indies4Indies, a great sound studio who also do localization and translation (not just text but voice work too), they're great guys. I myself can handle Korean and have ppl who may be able to do Jpnese.

http://www.indies4indies.com/ (http://www.indies4indies.com/)

Hi there. I don't think this game has a budget big enough other than "grab some other enthusiasts on a forum and put them in the credits", but we're working on a big game that we want translated to Korean and Japanese. Just for future considerations, can you give me some idea of a price for a large RPG, what kind of time it takes, what sort of format you prefer the text in? There would be no voice work required just text translation. Thanks. PM me if you prefer.