Hi friends!
Localisation has been a very important part of our development process, a collaboration that included almost two dozen people across the world, from Osaka and Seoul to London to Istanbul, we’ve worked around the clock to ensure you can enjoy The Bench in your native language.
Step by step our team has been iterating, refining, and testing every line to make sure The Bench feels just right in every language, even before we launched the demo, and whilst most of the supported languages have been in the game since launch, many have been reviewed and updated over time.
This new update brings a few exciting additions and improvements to localisation:
Arabic has officially joined the flock: a huge thank-you to Pisty for his incredible contribution and attention to detail, and for literally gifting us his time, to ensure that The Bench can now be played by 380+ million native Arabic speakers across the world!
Portuguese (Portugal) has also been added to the game, by having native speakers revise and rework the Portuguese (Brazil) text, we hope our Portuguese friends appreciate this, especially during DevGamm Lisbon!
Chinese and Russian have received multiple UI and text layout fixes, and all languages have seen new words added as the game expands, including tonal fixes in Korean and Japanese
Polish also sits on The Bench, but is at an earlier stage, so you may still encounter errors. If you do see something that isn’t quite right, please let us know!
In total, The Bench is now playable in English, Italian, Spanish, Korean, Ukrainian, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Polish, Portuguese (PT), German, Turkish, Portuguese (BR), Modern Arabic, French and Russian
We remain independent teams and therefore a few little quirks or UI issues here and there. If you spot anything odd, please report it, every bit of feedback helps us make The Bench even better.
But there’s more!
Thank you to everyone who stepped up and supported us with feedback, we’re grateful for every bug report, it has helped us enormously, we try to address every report quickly and have updated the game (almost) daily since its launch, and your contribution has made an enormous difference - really!
If you loved The Bench and would like to contribute improvements or help localize it into your own native language, we’d love to hear from you! Drop by the Community section or come chat with us on Discord, we’re always happy to collaborate with fellow pigeon enthusiasts.
The Bench is still on sale for one more day! We hope the cheaper launch price can entice you to explore our world and help it grow if you haven’t done so already, but there’s only 24 hours left before the sale ends!
See you soon with new cool pigeons, and a few very big surprises!
– Noovola and Voxel Studio