The Localization - What about that?
At this moment we are not going to localize Archeo: Shinar, when the game is in Early Access. We are preparing structures which will make localization (not dubbing!) possible and easy to implement, but in the current state we decided to work on the Career mode, voice over and the interface. For some, it may be not clear, but we will support Archeo even after the full release for at least 6 months. We hope that after the release we will earn money for the localization, which is always a great addition for non-English speakers. However, we not only need more budget to work on localization but also we don’t want to limit the languages based on our sales data, which clearly states that we should deliver only a few localizations.
What’s more, a lot of people reached us offering their service and help with the localization. That’s great, we really appreciate your passion and your attitude. You are awesome, wonderful people! And we probably will reach you back and use your help, however, we can not imagine doing so without rewarding each person. When we are talking about the lack of budget for the localization, we hope that a significant fraction of it will be spent to reward your hard work and magnificent attitude!
We should also add that most of you usually don’t see the amount of text in the game. We tried to limit it for your experience, but Archeo has a lot of ‘forks’ which hides the alternative events and so on. We can tell you that random events on their own have more than 35 000 words. As a comparison, a standard book (200 pages of manuscript) has about 55 000 words. At this point, we can’t even estimate how many words Archeo will have, because we are still writing the career mode. We just can’t expect anyone to translate our game for free.
To sum it up, we are going to release a full game with the career mode only in English. The game will be prepared for further localization, which we hope to deliver in the next few months after the release.
Cheers!