CACARO'S PROFILE

I don't mean to troll or anything, but how do you know they're much better if you haven't played the game yet?

At the very least, this game features something you don't see very often in RPGMaker games (nonlinearity and skill-based gameplay).

I actually like the new graphic style a lot. It certainly looks far less J-RPGish than the RPG2000 RTP.

author=Testament
30 pictures/day and I'll do this in 100 days XD (;_;)

Not to shatter your hopes, but that's a *very* optimistic estimate.

The actual problem in a translation is the different lenght of sentences when you have limited space. A concept that needs 1 word of 7 characters in italian, may need a whole sentence that doesn't fit in a row of a baloon.

That's the exact same problem I had. I usually managed to solve it by splitting the sentences, abbreviating some of the words (e.g. Maledizione became Malediz.) and then trying to put everything together in a semi-redeable way. The problem is that most of the time the space I had *still* wasn't enough and this solution isn't optimal anyway (abbreviations looked pretty horrible most of the time).

How do you mimic a german speech in english? In italian I can add K, -en at the end of the words, etc.

You could use "zee" for "the", for instance, since that's the one of the most common pronunciation mistakes, then you can replace "c" with "k". I'm pretty sure I've seen some videogames where people were talking english in a... "german" way, but I can't recall them at the moment.

King Vegas, for example, speak half italian half english... "Cosa abbiamo here? A young signorina! welcome!"

I'd translate most of the sentences, keeping some words in italian: in this case, I'd go with "What do we have here? A young signorina! Benvenuta!"

First of all, I've got to say I'm quite happy to see a game made by a fellow italian member :P

As soon as I can find some more free time, I'll definately try this. As for the translation issue, I totally understand your pain: some years ago I was part of the Ultima 7 italian translation project and I had to translate the spellbook - 40-50 images with text fragments much shorter than yours, still it took me almost forever due to the fact that most translated spells were much longer in italian than the original ones. So, yeah, unless you can risk losing your mind pretty quickly, I'd definately go for subtitles.

author=rabitZ
I apologize if someone really was expecting this soon.
I could PM you private copies of the advanced game if you want.

I'd *really* love to test this as well, since the game sounds awesome feature-wise. I'll be sure to give you extensive feedback.