So... long time reader, first time poster and all that. Anyway - I recently took up the game again after a few month's hiatus - and MAN do I like it! I'm still on my first fort, which has survived for a decade now and has 120+ dwarfs (and a human siege outside...
) and yet I've already tried exploratory mining, making deathtraps for invaders, attacking evil carp and trying to drain the river, until I discovered it flowed in the other direction and my dam was thus in the wrong place
Anyway, my post is about translations. And by that, I mean - is it possible to make a complete translation of the game into another language, say, Swedish (my mother tongue
), or at least part of the text? And I don't mean just names for objects as in Elvish or English or whatever, but the actual things - like how names are generated, descriptions of items, personalities, names of objects and menus and maps... Would that be possible? I'd like to try, but I don't seem to uncover much in this sense - is it because nobody has tried or because it won't work (hardcoded?) =/ ? Because I'd like to at least try to see what happens. I know it has been done with Diablo and other such games, and since it's only about modifying text files (I think? :S) it should be easy, right? Or at the very least Fun :p
Lemme know what you think ^^
//Al
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