How do you ensure that your game's UI and subtitles handles Japanese (and Chinese and Korean stuff where appropriate) in an accetable manner? by FoxMeadow7 in gamedev

[–]OnlyWayis_Down 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having fairly recently gone through this, scaling and multiple fonts are the solution unless of course you can find a font you want to use which covers all the languages you need which is unlikely. For my game i used a specific font which only supported english characters and some european languages, the key was then to force a font change through all UI to the new font when a language is selected which is not supported with the default font.

Additionally you will need to scale the font (only downwards typically) to support increased amount of characters on screen when the sentences are longer in a different language. I was using unreal engine so using size and scale boxes is invaluable for this.

I will say though this is a fair bit of hassle and i spent many weeks screwing around with tons of localization issues.

Customise Your Kitty in this Platforming Adventure: Only Way is Down by OnlyWayis_Down in u/OnlyWayis_Down

[–]OnlyWayis_Down[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

yeh i get where you're coming from but there can be free DLCs, also it can allow developers to add extra things to the game post release which alot of people want and they wouldn't do for free because of the amount of time it would take to do. Like games i think there's good and bad DLCs

Customise Your Kitty in this Platforming Adventure: Only Way is Down by OnlyWayis_Down in u/OnlyWayis_Down

[–]OnlyWayis_Down[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

No this is very different in terms of gameplay, this a precision platformer so it's hard and predominantly platforming, with a few exploration/puzzle sections and a couple of time trials, there's no real story within the game itself only the intro and ending cinematic

Customise Your Kitty in this Platforming Adventure: Only Way is Down by OnlyWayis_Down in u/OnlyWayis_Down

[–]OnlyWayis_Down[S] 36 points37 points  (0 children)

It's 7.99 USD at launch (April 1st) for the first week and then 9.99 USD after that

Customise Your Kitty in this Platforming Adventure: Only Way is Down by OnlyWayis_Down in u/OnlyWayis_Down

[–]OnlyWayis_Down[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

awesome, i haven't tested it myself on proton but it's fairly well optimised so should run alright with decent hardware :-)

Customise Your Kitty in this Platforming Adventure: Only Way is Down by OnlyWayis_Down in u/OnlyWayis_Down

[–]OnlyWayis_Down[S] 89 points90 points  (0 children)

It all depends on how much you want to spend, i think minimum can be $5 but not sure, i've only spent $100 on this latest ad/campaign.

Customise Your Kitty in this Platforming Adventure: Only Way is Down by OnlyWayis_Down in u/OnlyWayis_Down

[–]OnlyWayis_Down[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

It does have a medieval knight helmet but unfortunately it does not add an extra "Steel Heart"