Overtrick's Demo is now available in five languages! Thanks to our wonderful translation team, you can now play in Chinese, English, French, German, or Portuguese. If you see any issues or want to suggest changes, I’d certainly appreciate you letting me know (join our Discord server!).
We also localized the game trailer for all languages, and I wanted to write about making that happen! Normally, a game trailer is put together with recorded gameplay footage. If your game has text in it, then you have to record and edit gameplay across each language you want to localize for.
For Overtrick, the trailer is actually auto-generated by the Godot game engine. Originally, I did this so that I could keep the trailer up-to-date with new art and animations from the game (and because I didn’t want to learn how to use video-editing software). Now, it makes localizing the trailer as simple as setting the locale, and running a script!
Additional Updates
Godot 4.7 Upgrade. Overtrick now runs on Godot 4.7, taking advantage of some of the new UI/Control options.
Improved Launch Speed. The game should now launch a little bit quicker.
Special Card UI Improvements. I made a number of improvements to certain special cards, including improvements to the UI and animations for cards like Bridge Overlord, Swap, and Hearts in Harmony. Triple Header, Turn the Tide, and Shine Bright should now also be a little easier to use, after some attention to how their icons work in the top-left. The screenshot below shows Bridge Overlord in action, as well as the Triple Header indicator showing that 2 of 3 tricks have been won by the player.
Options Menu. I added Language, VSync and Master Volume to the options menu, and updated the UI.
Thank you to our wonderful translation team for such a quick turn-around on localization! And as always, thank you to our wonderful player community. Pop by the Discord server and say hi!