---- Welcome Miners! ----
If you want to help out translate Deep Rock Galactic, you have come to the right place!
The game is currently released on Steam and Xbox One / Microsoft Store PC. The translation effort is for you, who wants to help out to make the text understandable in your language! and then you'll have a good chance of putting your mark on the game.
---- Technical guidelines for translations ----
- All the text from the game is one long list called "AllGameText"
- Due to mysterious reasons the order of the strings are pretty much random. Sorry about that!
- Check the Context to get an idea about where in the game the text is displayed.
- Text in UPPERCASE must also be in UPPERCASE in the translated version.
- Never translate text that is INSIDE brackets; both { } and [ ] counts for this. So, a text saying "Press [SPACE] to jump" must not have the "[SPACE]" part translated. In the danish translation, it would end up as "Tryk [SPACE] for at hoppe".
- Text with line breaks needs special care. Each line break needs the special code "\r". It should end up with the same structure as you see it in the original text. Example:
CHANGE\r
LOOKS
will in the danish translation become
SKIFT\r
UDSEENDE
---- Mini FAQ ----
Q: Who can contribute?
A: We'll be using both unpaid volunteers from the community and paid professionals to assist in the translations. We know that volunteers from the community are the ones that knows the game the best, while the pro translators knows translation the best. This way, we can hopefully get the best of both worlds.
Q: So, what does this mean if you are a volunteer?
A: You can go in a translate as much and as little as you want to. Later on, we'll evaluate the contribution and those that have added a significant amount on a language will be credited in the game and get a copy of the game.
Q: What do mean with "significant amount"?
A: The amount of text pr language is quite big for an indie action game, mostly due to large number of subtitled voice-lines. The current total is around 76000 words and it will take a single person MANY hours to chew through all of that. So, as a guideline, this is how we will award volunteers:
Tier 1
10.000 words: Get a free copy of the game
Tier 2
20.000 words: Get 3 more copies for your friends + Get into the Credits as Community Translator
Tier 3
25.000 words: 1 x key for Dark Future DLC pack, 1 x key for Megacorp DLC pack
Tier 4
30.000 words: Deep Rock Galactic T-shirt (Design TBD)
Note: We will mostly like update the Tier rewards over time.
This is a GUIDELINE, not a rule. We will assess and evaluate each individual translator's effort and reward accordingly. This is just to set your expectations.
Q: What if I want to get paid?
A: Then you'll have to have a professional setup and get in contact with our publisher, Coffee Stain Publishing. We'll have a much higher requirement here and you'll be competing for a spot with other professional translators.
Update: The rules have been updated on May 11, 2020