Howdy Chocolatiers!
Captain Contraption’s Chocolate Factory may be our fourth game but it’s the first one we have tried to localise. We want as many people as possible to enjoy our game and since we do not have the budget for human translation we thought a Google Translation would be better than nothing. Unfortunately, many of you have fed back that the translations in the game at the moment are less than ideal - frankly a machine will never do as good a job as a human.
Our plan was (and still is) to use the income we generate from the game to pay for professionals to complete the translations. Unfortunately the reality of being a small game on Steam is that it will take us a long time to generate the funds we need to do this effectively. This has led us to consider alternative strategies for completing the localisation.
To our surprise we’ve had a number of you offering to translate the game for us - which is incredible - but until today we haven’t had any tools to allow this or a reasonable way to compensate volunteers for their work. Today we are announcing that we are teaming with Localizor, an online crowd translation tool where players can help translate text in games in exchange for coins that can be redeemed into Steam keys. We are really excited to try Localizor out with you all. This is how it works:
- Head over to Localizor and sign up
- Pick a game you want to help translate (ideally Captain Contraption’s Chocolate Factory, but there are lots of other projects you can support)
- Either translate text or vote on suggestions of translations.
- When you have earnt enough coins head to the Localizor shop and redeem them for a Steam key!
If you have any questions, comments or if you want us to add your native language to the list let us know below. We hope you will join us in translating the game together so more people can enjoy the game!