Legends of Amberland series heads to Japan!

Link to Japanese translation of this news.

The Legends of Amberland series (PC) was localized into Japanese!
New versions of all Amberland games were released (yesterday and one today), all of them containing a crude, early, Japanese translations.

• Legends of Amberland: The Forgotten Crown (v1.32) release notes
• Legends of Amberland II: The Song of Trees (v1.25) release notes
• Legends of Amberland III: The Crimson Tower (v1.12) release notes

Important note on quality: This is the first attempt to localizing ANY of my games to ANY Asian language. So, it is very a very crude first attempt and will have problems, those will be fixed of course. During the first localization step I was focusing on technicalities (characters displayed properly, making things bigger so those characters are readable, auto resizing text where needed, etc) while quality of translation itself was a low priority. Once I gather players feedback on things and it’s confirmed that, on technical side, everything is acceptable, I will proceed to improving the text quality itself.

BTW, I have heard that Japanese legislation requires and explicit permission to anyone who would want to localize the game (it can be done trivially by editing text files in “data/locale/” folder). Therefore, Silver Lemur Games grants anyone the right to localize the game (by changing locale/ game folder content) to Japanese (and other languages) and to distribute those locale files via various means. You might save yourself the link to this post if you need it for legal reasons, it’s persistent. Oh yes, if you do, you might consider dropping me the improved locale as well.

This is the first step in bringing the world of Amberland to more players across Asia. Since lack of those localizations was caused by technical limitations only. But now, when the game engine supports Asian character set, additional Asian language localizations are inevitable. Stay tuned!