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WeKnowGame-Help Your Game Go Eastern @weknowgameofficial.bsky.social · 16h

At this moment, we don't think the new Chinese localization could be perfect to all Chinese gamers, they are holding different opinions and tastes. Sometimes, a first-sight-click determines a translated word, even it's done wrong. #indiegame #indiedev #Silksong

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WeKnowGame-Help Your Game Go Eastern @weknowgameofficial.bsky.social · 1d

The final message from legendary Tomonobu Itagaki:
#DOA6 #NINJAGAIDEN2

WeKnowGame-Help Your Game Go Eastern @weknowgameofficial.bsky.social · 3d

Good bye Tomonobu Itagaki. さようなら　板垣伴信。一路走好，板垣伴信。

WeKnowGame-Help Your Game Go Eastern @weknowgameofficial.bsky.social · 3d

The newest Chinese localization for Silksong (in-test-version) failed again. Whatever who TC work with, we think those translators have too much ego. They unnecessarily changed some terms. #indiegame #indiedev #localization #Silksong

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WeKnowGame-Help Your Game Go Eastern @weknowgameofficial.bsky.social · 3d

We never put any agenda in localization. Localization isn't rewriting the original cultural contenxt to achieve some purposes. Localization is pure language exchange, respect the oringial context, and turn it into other languages accurately, and that's all! #indiegame #indiedev #localization

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WeKnowGame-Help Your Game Go Eastern @weknowgameofficial.bsky.social · 4d

Bonfire/Camp trap is a ricky gameplay design. Most of times, it would fail, it breaks the trust between the gamers and the game. It's like a monster in your toilet, no where is ever safe. #indiegame #indiedev

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WeKnowGame-Help Your Game Go Eastern @weknowgameofficial.bsky.social · 5d

Still one of the most unique space jump scenes in movie/gaming/comic industry. #indiegame #indiedev #rebelmoon #StarWars #SnyderVerse

Kali Space Jumping Scene Mix-Cut From Rebel Moon Part II

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WeKnowGame-Help Your Game Go Eastern @weknowgameofficial.bsky.social · 6d

3 facts about our company：
1, All members are actual gamers.
2, We offer professional authentic Chinese localization and game consulting service.
3, We run multiple real gamer gourps on Chinese SNS, all true followers, no bots!
4, Sometimes we offer more just like this post.
#indiegame #indiedev

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WeKnowGame-Help Your Game Go Eastern @weknowgameofficial.bsky.social · 11d

low budget solution for creating better attack-feeling(how players feel when they do attack in games): 1, adding white flashlight when hitting enemy. 2,Hit-stop 3, screenshake 4, Instead of using realistic sound, try powerful SFX. #indiegame #indiedev

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WeKnowGame-Help Your Game Go Eastern @weknowgameofficial.bsky.social · 13d

There is a professional Chinese gamer said: Hollow Knights and Silk Song are more like bullet heaven game, if you see each bug enemy as a bullet and its attack as a special bullet alternation, this game will become easier when you play it. #indiegame #indiedev #hollowknight #SilkSong

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WeKnowGame-Help Your Game Go Eastern @weknowgameofficial.bsky.social · 15d

The most difficult part of localization is to translate jokes between different cultural backgrounds. And the most common jokes are dirty s3x jokes, well, that's human nature we guess, lol. #indiegame #indiedev #culture

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WeKnowGame-Help Your Game Go Eastern @weknowgameofficial.bsky.social · 15d

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Zeljko Kos - Making Pompeii: The Legacy @zzeljkokos.bsky.social · 15d

It’s been 10 days since release, thank you all for being here! 🙏

Today’s update adds map trade lines, balance tweaks & Czech localization.
Pompeii keeps growing, one patch at a time, and this is just the beginning!

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#indiegame #citybuilder #screenshotsaturday

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WeKnowGame-Help Your Game Go Eastern @weknowgameofficial.bsky.social · 16d

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WeKnowGame-Help Your Game Go Eastern @weknowgameofficial.bsky.social · 16d

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WeKnowGame-Help Your Game Go Eastern @weknowgameofficial.bsky.social · 17d

Game devs, if you need authentic Chinese localization service, we are here, but we can offer more! We are a gamer team and we are managing multiple gamer fan groups in China, we have few uprising Chinese SNS channels, so you will get more from us. #indiegame #indiedev

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WeKnowGame-Help Your Game Go Eastern @weknowgameofficial.bsky.social · 18d

Don't launch EA on Steam unless you already have a stable fan-base and wishlist with good numbers. Steam seems doesn't like to promote game in EA stage. We talked with few studios, the devs told us so. #indiedev #indiegame #steam #earlyaccess

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WeKnowGame-Help Your Game Go Eastern @weknowgameofficial.bsky.social · 19d

store.steampowered.com/app/2848740/_/ Huge discount and V0.7 update on this Cyberpunk Beat'em up roguelite game 【Over Rider】! New wallpapers are free for you now! #indiegame #indiedev #cyberpunk #roguelite #steam #act

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WeKnowGame-Help Your Game Go Eastern @weknowgameofficial.bsky.social · 21d

Our company worked on Chinese localization for this wonderful historical game. We read some documents to make sure that our words are historical accurate. Somehow we managed staying faithful to the orginal texts yet still making everything fit in Chinese language nuances. #indiegame #IndieGameDev

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WeKnowGame-Help Your Game Go Eastern @weknowgameofficial.bsky.social · 22d

It happens thousands of times. Asian gamers leave bad reviews first, they complain about the unreasonable difficulty, design flaws, bugs, then 2 weeks later, the western gamers start to leave bad reviews too. So don't be angry about Asian gamers, they play faster sometimes #indiegame #indiedev

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WeKnowGame-Help Your Game Go Eastern @weknowgameofficial.bsky.social · 26d

Do you know HP is Hit-Point in Japanese, and Health-Point in English? Chinese gamers call it Blood-Point（血量）or Life-Point（生命值）, but they just say HP as it is. (For most of times) #indiegame #indiedev #gameknowlegde

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WeKnowGame-Help Your Game Go Eastern @weknowgameofficial.bsky.social · 29d

Any translator shall not put their own agenda into the orginal context.
But translating puns or jokes in their own culture adaptation is forgivable. #indiegame #indiedev #culture

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WeKnowGame-Help Your Game Go Eastern @weknowgameofficial.bsky.social · Sep 16

The disaster of Chinese localization for Silksong strikes again and more! In monster diary, the Chinese translator wrote things that were completely different from the original text, some are not even wrong and it brings question: Why they did this, re-writting the whole thing? #indiegame #indiedev

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WeKnowGame-Help Your Game Go Eastern @weknowgameofficial.bsky.social · Sep 16

Wow, amazing, sure, we are at your service anytime, feel free to email us [email protected]

WeKnowGame-Help Your Game Go Eastern @weknowgameofficial.bsky.social · Sep 15

Here is another news, during the gamescom event, there are already some Chinese gamers joined the demo play and they all pointed out the Chinese localization was bad. But at that time, maybe it's too late to change.

WeKnowGame-Help Your Game Go Eastern @weknowgameofficial.bsky.social · Sep 15

Yes..let's say the dev don't have enough resource on checking the result of localization on their own, plus they didn't invite any Chinese player to do quality checking work, even China is the biggest market for Team Cherry.

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