Hi Guys,
I am working on a German translation of the game and I already finished the short UI strings.
The longer explanations will take some more time however, as I am doing this in my free time.
EDIT: Due to a statement from Cliff some posts later, that they are working on a German version, this mod is on hold until the German version is out.
German Language Patch v0.15 for Democracy3 v1.08
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Status:
- Main menu (100%)
- Germany mission info (100%)
- Politic setup (100%)
- Welcome screen (100%)
- Main GUI Strings (100%)
- Policy names (100%)
- Policy sliders (100%)
- Statistic names (100%)
- Situation names (100%)
- Voter group names (100%)
- Voter group descriptions (100%) with denkdaetz
- Pressure groups names (100%)
- Minister job titles (100%)
- Tutorial (100%) with Gravian
- Pressure group descriptions (0%) with myself
- Situation descriptions (0%)
- Statistic descriptions (0%)
- Policy descriptions (0%) with Coming
- Dilemmas (0%)
- Events (0%)
- Attacks (0%) with denkdaetz
- Achievements (0%)
- Quotes (0%)
Changes in 0.15:
- Updated strings to match with Democracy3 v1.08
Changes in 0.14:
- Finished the Tutorial with help of Gravian
- Matched the Tutorial with the strings
Changes in 0.13:
- Updated strings to match with Democracy3 v1.07
- Several tweaks to Policy names to fit inside the policy bars on the polling page
- Changed Icon for Fuel Efficiency to read l/km instead of GPM
- Changed Party names to the biggest German parties
Changes in 0.12:
- Translated voter group descriptions with help of denkdaetz
- Changed ‘Kindergartengeld’ to ‘Kinderbetreuung’ in policy names
Changes in 0.11:
- Translated policy group background images
Known issues:
- Special German characters (ÄÖÜäöüß) are not inside the fonts so I cannot use them right now.
- German decimal separator is a comma (,) instead of a point and the thousand separator is a point (.) instead of a comma, however the game doesn’t support it.
- Even though I tried to abbreviate, some German translations are longer than the available space, so they appear trimmed in the middle of the word.
- Party names are global. It is currently not possible to have the corresponding Party names for each country
Compatibility:
You need to have the original game to apply the translation patch.
I used the GOG version 2.0.0 (Democracy 3 version 1.06) as a base for the translation.
Usage:
Just unzip the contents of this archive into the base folder of Democracy 3 overwriting files when prompted.
Disclaimer:
I only edited text files and bitmaps with strings in order to achieve a complete German user experience.
No EXE file or other files have been touched and they are not included in the download.
I am not responsibe for any damage those files may do to your game installation or your system.
Backup your game folder and use the patch on your own risk.
Download:
Current version:
German Language Patch v0.15 for Democracy3 v1.08.zip
Older versions:
German Language Patch v0.14 for Democracy3 v1.07.zip
German Language Patch v0.13 for Democracy3 v1.07.zip
Democracy 3 v1.06 German v0.12 (beta).zip
Democracy 3 v1.06 German v0.11 (beta).zip
Democracy 3 v1.06 German v0.1 (beta).zip
Participation/Suggestions/Credits:
- denkdaetz for his help on the descriptions
- Gravian for his help on the tutorial
- positech games for this great game
- notepad-plus-plus.org/ for this great public license code editor
If you like to help me, you can post your translated files here and I will integrate them into the patch and you will be mentioned in the credits.
If you have alterative suggestions, how to solve the limited string length and abbreviation problem or you found better terms for specific words, please post it here, so it can be considered and integrgated.Changes