We are honored and grateful to announce the release of a Korean translation for Strangeland, courtesy of volunteer translator Hyewon. To opt into the translation go to your Steam Library, right-click on Strangeland, and select Properties. Within Properties, set the language to Korean.
This translation has presented extraordinary challenges. On a technical level, the engine in which the game is made, Adventure Game Studio does not easily support non-Roman-alphabet languages, and it required a great deal of work by our coder, James Spanos, to make the translation function. On a linguistic level, Strangeland's complicated wordplay and interwoven references required not only deft translation but thoughtful localization. Hyewon worked closely with the writer/designer Mark Yohalem to find a way to convey the text's original meaning in Korean.
This translation would not exist without Korean streamer Kimdoe, who featured Strangeland on a webpage entitled "I want this game to be translated in Korean." Hyewon found Strangeland through that website, and answered Kimdoe's call. After many months of tireless work and testing from Hyewon, James, and Mark, the translation is at last complete.
If you encounter any bugs or errors, please let us know in the Steam forum, or you can email us at [email protected].
It is our hope that this translation becomes a bridge between Strangeland and a new group of players. And we are immensely thankful to Hyewon for building that bridge.