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| Localizing a game is always a time consuming process especially if the game has not been designed with this goal in the first place. The Drag[en]gine provides a simple system to localize games. The advantage of this system is the transparency to the game developer. Adding a new language to a game consists of simply adding a new language resource file, loading the file and using it to retrieve translations from. The localization system composes of two major components. | Localizing a game is always a time consuming process especially if the game has not been designed with this goal in the first place. The Drag[en]gine provides a simple system to localize games. The advantage of this system is the transparency to the game developer. Adding a new language to a game consists of simply adding a new language resource file, loading the file and using it to retrieve translations from. The localization system composes of two major components. | ||
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| The door would store 0 as it's section and desk 1. Now independent of the language pack assigned you can query the description of the door using section(0)-entry(1) or for the desk using section(1)-entry(1). You could also use one section for your entire game and add each text as an entry in this section. Using the sections though you need only 2 indices instead of 6 in this example which is easier to work with. | The door would store 0 as it's section and desk 1. Now independent of the language pack assigned you can query the description of the door using section(0)-entry(1) or for the desk using section(1)-entry(1). You could also use one section for your entire game and add each text as an entry in this section. Using the sections though you need only 2 indices instead of 6 in this example which is easier to work with. | ||
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