Translation to Spanish

[JAMR]

Siendo juegos de pantallas de texto, ¿no sería facíl traducirlos al español? Le abriría muchas ventas, sin duda.

¿Nunca se lo han planteado?

 

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Being text screen games, wouldn't it be easy to translate them into Spanish? It would open many sales, no doubt.

Have you never thought about it?

[Adam Ryland]

I don't know which games you're talking about, but if it's TEW then no, it wouldn't be easy - putting aside the huge workload (there's tens of thousands of lines of text for the internet stories alone), you'd be looking at a significant amount of coding to take into account the changes to word endings that Spanish involves, depending on verb usage and gender, that doesn't exist in English. We'd effectively have to create two separate versions of the game.

[JAMR]

Me referia a WMMA5, que creo que podría ser más sencillo.

 

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I was referring to WMMA5, which I think could be simpler.

[Adam Ryland]

That'd actually be harder due to the match engine featuring such a large percentage of sentences consisting of separate sections stitched together - putting it into a language with a different sentence structure like Spanish would mean a pretty hefty rewrite of how it works.

[JAMR]

Que curioso, yo pensaba que era "sencillo".

 

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How curious, I thought it was "simple."

[DerekReynolds]

So what has he wanted? To translate or to answer?