💌 Discounty News - May 2025
Attention shoppers!
First of all, to everyone eagerly awaiting more news about Discounty's launch, all I have to say is: stay tuned! 👀
In the meantime, we wanted to share a few development updates pulled from our most recent email newsletter. Make sure to subscribe to our newsletter for the full version — new subscribers get the latest issue in their inbox!
[h2]🎉 A MAZE. Festival: Making a playable demo![/h2]
As we wrote in our last newsletter update, Discounty was nominated for an A MAZE. Award at the A MAZE. Festival in Berlin this year. That also included the opportunity to showcase the game at the Exhibition, along with all the other nominated games.
Because of that, we had to make a demo version of the game! We wanted to show off some of the best parts of the early game in a short demo that could be completed in a half hour. We threw one together then got it all set up at the festival. We met so many cool people, and that alone was worth the trip!
[h2]🌐 LOCALIZATION: Discounty goes global![/h2]
We want as many people as possible to play Discounty, which means we need to localize the game! That means translating every bit of text — from dialogue to quest logs to UI — into a bunch of different languages.
If that sounds like a lot of work...it is! Thankfully, our publisher is working with localizers to bring the game into all of our target languages. (By the way, these are English, French, German, Spanish (Spain), Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified & Traditional Chinese, and Danish.)
But getting the text translated isn't the end of it. After we got the translations back, we've had to make sure they're re-implemented into the game properly. Translations can unexpectedly break code, longer words can extend outside of text boxes, and there are sometimes lines that might not get implemented properly since we have a massive & confusing text database. But it will definitely be worth it when fans all over the world can play the game in their native language!
[h2]💬 Mods? ...Mods??[/h2]
As a reward for reading to the last entry, we're going to let you in on a little secret…we’re going to open a Discord server for Discounty very soon! The Discord is going to be a crucial place for us as developers to gather feedback to improve the game. If you want to be a part of making Discounty into the best possible game it can be, keep your eyes peeled here and on our social media channels for more info in the coming days!
That's it for this month's dev update! If you want to read more, make sure to sign up for the newsletter here. Thanks for reading, and see you next month!
xoxo
Crinkle Cut Games
First of all, to everyone eagerly awaiting more news about Discounty's launch, all I have to say is: stay tuned! 👀
In the meantime, we wanted to share a few development updates pulled from our most recent email newsletter. Make sure to subscribe to our newsletter for the full version — new subscribers get the latest issue in their inbox!
[h2]🎉 A MAZE. Festival: Making a playable demo![/h2]
As we wrote in our last newsletter update, Discounty was nominated for an A MAZE. Award at the A MAZE. Festival in Berlin this year. That also included the opportunity to showcase the game at the Exhibition, along with all the other nominated games.
Because of that, we had to make a demo version of the game! We wanted to show off some of the best parts of the early game in a short demo that could be completed in a half hour. We threw one together then got it all set up at the festival. We met so many cool people, and that alone was worth the trip!
[h2]🌐 LOCALIZATION: Discounty goes global![/h2]
We want as many people as possible to play Discounty, which means we need to localize the game! That means translating every bit of text — from dialogue to quest logs to UI — into a bunch of different languages.
If that sounds like a lot of work...it is! Thankfully, our publisher is working with localizers to bring the game into all of our target languages. (By the way, these are English, French, German, Spanish (Spain), Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified & Traditional Chinese, and Danish.)
But getting the text translated isn't the end of it. After we got the translations back, we've had to make sure they're re-implemented into the game properly. Translations can unexpectedly break code, longer words can extend outside of text boxes, and there are sometimes lines that might not get implemented properly since we have a massive & confusing text database. But it will definitely be worth it when fans all over the world can play the game in their native language!
[h2]💬 Mods? ...Mods??[/h2]
As a reward for reading to the last entry, we're going to let you in on a little secret…we’re going to open a Discord server for Discounty very soon! The Discord is going to be a crucial place for us as developers to gather feedback to improve the game. If you want to be a part of making Discounty into the best possible game it can be, keep your eyes peeled here and on our social media channels for more info in the coming days!
That's it for this month's dev update! If you want to read more, make sure to sign up for the newsletter here. Thanks for reading, and see you next month!
xoxo
Crinkle Cut Games