Roboquest News - Localization and Tier List
Hello guardians!
We’re here to talk about two important things: the localization of the game and tier lists (featuring weapons).
This will be short news, but fortunately worthy of your time and interesting nonetheless.
Let’s dive into it right away.
[h2]Summer Update Texts[/h2]
As many of you might have noticed, the game’s no longer localized in other languages apart from English.
When developing a game, you ideally want to localize the stable aspects of the game (IE, aspects containing texts that are no longer going to change over the course of the development).
But we initially had few to none of these “stable” aspects in Roboquest.
For example, we modified or re-created most of the perks and weapon affixes of the game several times.
That’s mainly why we initially didn’t want to start officially translating the game into other languages.
But over the course of the development, we’ve been contacted by several people asking us if they could translate the game in their own language.
So we let them do it.
Not only was it warm heartening to see people getting involved in the game development with us, it was also a big step forward for the game.
We can’t express how grateful we are to these translators. They helped us bring the game to a larger audience than we initially planned.
But as the Summer update was being worked on, we fell behind in our schedule. And the time we usually allocate to solidify texts and send them to the translators shrunk more and more. To a degree where we weren’t able to give them any time window to translate the game before the Summer update release.
That’s why we find ourselves in the current situation.
The translators are working on them, and the game will be available in different languages in the days and weeks to come. But we can’t guarantee any timeframe.
However, we now find ourselves for the first time in a state where we deemed a lot of the game aspects to be stable enough for the texts to be considered for a translation.
That means that the game is more likely to be localized and remain in a polished localized status.
[h2]Future of Roboquest Localization[/h2]
But what do we have in mind regarding localization in the long term?
According to our player data, the core languages that we need to implement into the game and that we guarantee will be ready for the 1.0.0 launch are English, Chinese, Russian, Spanish-Spain, Portuguese-Brazil, German and French.
It's important for us to maintain transparency with the community and one of the very reasons for this news post was based on your feedback.
We recognize that your language may not be included in the above list and whilst we don't have the resources to add all languages, we can at least provide you with a way to contribute. We set up an online Crowdin project so that everyone can participate. If you want to hop in, please make sure to head over to our Discord server and ping a member of the Roboquest Hotline.
Now, onto the fun part of this news.
Tier lists!
We set up an official TierMaker list for Roboquest weapons.
You can find it here.
Here’s a short preview:
But why are we doing this?
For several reasons. The first and main one being we absolutely love checking your tier list and hearing the logic behind your reasoning. The second one being that it helps us get a sense of what you like and dislike about our weapons. Thirdly and finally, we realized tier lists are something that seem to really entertain the community and generate a lot of discussion. And we’re always pleased to see our Discord (and other community platforms) blooming with discussions.
So we decided to create our own tier list template, so you don’t have to spend hours taking screenshots in the game and to provide you with an array of neat and organized images.
What do we expect now?
Nothing much, you can do as you please. You can also of course modify the amount of tiers and their title if you use the template.
We will however set up a specific channel for tier lists on Discord and we will be actively following your uploads and the discussion following them. You may post videos, images or whatever support you wish, we will likely be reading it. We’ll also be following the tier lists posted on other platforms, we’re just more active on Discord as it’s the most convenient way for us to directly interact with you.
You can also expect other sorts of tier lists (for Perks or Classes for instance) in the future.
That's it for this news, we can't wait to check out what you'll do with this tier list template!
We'll probably be back for a new Devblog in the weeks to come.
In the meantime, happy robot bashing guardians!
We’re here to talk about two important things: the localization of the game and tier lists (featuring weapons).
This will be short news, but fortunately worthy of your time and interesting nonetheless.
Let’s dive into it right away.
Game Localization
Localization is the process of translating the game in other languages.[h2]Summer Update Texts[/h2]
As many of you might have noticed, the game’s no longer localized in other languages apart from English.
When developing a game, you ideally want to localize the stable aspects of the game (IE, aspects containing texts that are no longer going to change over the course of the development).
But we initially had few to none of these “stable” aspects in Roboquest.
For example, we modified or re-created most of the perks and weapon affixes of the game several times.
That’s mainly why we initially didn’t want to start officially translating the game into other languages.
But over the course of the development, we’ve been contacted by several people asking us if they could translate the game in their own language.
So we let them do it.
Not only was it warm heartening to see people getting involved in the game development with us, it was also a big step forward for the game.
We can’t express how grateful we are to these translators. They helped us bring the game to a larger audience than we initially planned.
But as the Summer update was being worked on, we fell behind in our schedule. And the time we usually allocate to solidify texts and send them to the translators shrunk more and more. To a degree where we weren’t able to give them any time window to translate the game before the Summer update release.
That’s why we find ourselves in the current situation.
The translators are working on them, and the game will be available in different languages in the days and weeks to come. But we can’t guarantee any timeframe.
However, we now find ourselves for the first time in a state where we deemed a lot of the game aspects to be stable enough for the texts to be considered for a translation.
That means that the game is more likely to be localized and remain in a polished localized status.
[h2]Future of Roboquest Localization[/h2]
But what do we have in mind regarding localization in the long term?
According to our player data, the core languages that we need to implement into the game and that we guarantee will be ready for the 1.0.0 launch are English, Chinese, Russian, Spanish-Spain, Portuguese-Brazil, German and French.
It's important for us to maintain transparency with the community and one of the very reasons for this news post was based on your feedback.
We recognize that your language may not be included in the above list and whilst we don't have the resources to add all languages, we can at least provide you with a way to contribute. We set up an online Crowdin project so that everyone can participate. If you want to hop in, please make sure to head over to our Discord server and ping a member of the Roboquest Hotline.
Tier Lists
Now, onto the fun part of this news.
Tier lists!
We set up an official TierMaker list for Roboquest weapons.
You can find it here.
Here’s a short preview:
But why are we doing this?
For several reasons. The first and main one being we absolutely love checking your tier list and hearing the logic behind your reasoning. The second one being that it helps us get a sense of what you like and dislike about our weapons. Thirdly and finally, we realized tier lists are something that seem to really entertain the community and generate a lot of discussion. And we’re always pleased to see our Discord (and other community platforms) blooming with discussions.
So we decided to create our own tier list template, so you don’t have to spend hours taking screenshots in the game and to provide you with an array of neat and organized images.
What do we expect now?
Nothing much, you can do as you please. You can also of course modify the amount of tiers and their title if you use the template.
We will however set up a specific channel for tier lists on Discord and we will be actively following your uploads and the discussion following them. You may post videos, images or whatever support you wish, we will likely be reading it. We’ll also be following the tier lists posted on other platforms, we’re just more active on Discord as it’s the most convenient way for us to directly interact with you.
You can also expect other sorts of tier lists (for Perks or Classes for instance) in the future.
That's it for this news, we can't wait to check out what you'll do with this tier list template!
We'll probably be back for a new Devblog in the weeks to come.
In the meantime, happy robot bashing guardians!