Draken wrote:
I guess we're still waiting on an "official" translator for this game, right? I hope that releasing SSMS1 will attract the attention of someone better capable of tackling this project and relieve you from feeling the need to translate things yourself. I only say this because it must be terribly taxing to take on such responsibility by yourself, and I know from experience that all the dictionaries in the world can't accurately translate what someone immersed in the culture can.
I am patient.
I also have a completed prequel with a lot of overlap and an excellent FAQ that guides well. I know the culture of the characters, their speech patterns, mannerisms, quirks, and rivalries. Once I have assembled a sizable body of work, a bilingual translator can clear up glitches in mere hours - as opposed to months of original work from scratch. Yes, and I'll take an hour or more sometimes to find the precise meaning of an esoteric term or phrase.
I have finally realized that putting one of these sagas together with 10,000 details attended is my true pleasure derived from the effort - not releasing. I am no longer concerned about the evolution requiring years. I'm determined to just peck away at these things until finished. I build houses the same way -five of them completed in 35 years. Everything appears to stand strongly, game and abode, solidly constructed by dedicated teams of talented people to resist hurricanes or whatever. Only I'm more of a lone wolf designing and constructing homes, but it's the same principle - one board or one word at a time. I do let Sherry pick all of the colors and finishes, because she doesn't understand load-bearing walls any better than I can write binary coding!
Okay, when I get a demo of SSMS-II, and after we release SSMS-I, I'll personally contact a few real translators and plead the case. I want the best possible because this game deserves that. I am confident someone will step forward, so I'm in no rush. Plenty to keep me busy in the hobby time I have. I've also resumed construction on the final house I plan to build, either a 5,000 square foot complex or 7,000 monstrosity, depending on how much my family members are able to restrain my ambitions, hee-hee...! (Or if the money runs out, whichever occurs sooner.)
Look how nicely Bongo` is fixing that pesky clock! But I'm frightened to even breathe on the insertion file!