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yep, finding a real chinese guy is 100% better than AI, and for me AI translation is better than machine translation, cuz AI translation sometimes can get chinese memes and translate it to the same meaning eng memes, but machine translation cant, it just directly translate the literally meaning lol, like it will translate "鸡同鸭讲" to "chicken talk to duck", and here is the AI translation: "talk at cross-purposes"

i think yes, localization translation is a hard work, i think this part, we can use some AI to make sure they are right, like some AI train by chinese datas, machine translation often get wrong. and as i know, some developers usually ask for help to find some chinese guy to translate, i think it's a nice voluntary work, cuz there are actually some chinese like a game and wanna translate for it, but some of them just dont know how to contact with developers, sometimes i even saw some eng developors went to QQ to ask chinese for help to tranaslate chinese lol(QQ = Chinese Discord)

12~16px is fine, for title could be 24~32px, but also there are some pixel fonts suit for small px like 12 or 16

i can recommand u some(i think they are famous): 

https://github.com/TakWolf/fusion-pixel-font, this looks already good by 10 or 12

https://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html， this looks nice by 8 or 16px

https://github.com/SolidZORO/zpix-pixel-font by 12px

And I also noticed an interesting point: some games are willing to do localization translation for dozens of small languages, but still unwilling to do localization translation for Chinese. If it is to make games popular and make money, shouldn't we do Chinese translation and enter the Chinese market?

Modern game engines have already developed native Chinese font solutions, with no technical barriers. The Chinese pixel font you mentioned has long had mature solutions in many pixel games, such as Minecraft.

Moreover, foreign games with Simplified Chinese do not participate in domestic censorship in China. And in the situations where you mentioned being prohibited by law, the vast majority of cases of illegal bans are not rooted in Chinese translations.

And I think this is a business fact that everyone should be aware of: if you don't localize, it's basically equivalent to completely giving up on this market. This fact was not proposed by me, but by commercial studios that developed masterpieces such as The Witcher III and Cyberpunk 2077.

I believe that the core value of localized translation has never been to "make games explode overnight", but to steadily improve basic business data. If you are unwilling to do even the initial localization translation, how can you make Chinese people willing to play your game?

Moreover, having Chinese for free games will greatly enhance community activity, and active players are the core source of paid content in the future. To seize the Chinese market for similar games, local translation is almost necessary.

Due to some complex words, I have to use a translator to communicate with you about the following sentences: You think the Chinese market cannot be entered, so you don't do Chinese translation, but the fact is that many people cannot successfully enter the Chinese market because they haven't done Chinese translation, which is the reason.

Moreover, the Chinese market is not only the Chinese Mainland market, but also the Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas Chinese. It is almost impossible for the game you mentioned to be prohibited by law, and as far as I know, only a few large-scale commercial games are prohibited because they are too bloody, violent or contain cult content. If your game is a normal leisure game or an ordinary competitive game, you don't need to worry about this at all, and the premise of all this is that your game is tried to be released on the official game platform in China (this is almost impossible for independent developers like you, because the platform will require you to have a Chinese citizen ID card to prove your identity as a developer)

if your game wont appear at chinese official platforms, u will never be ban by chinese law, thats fake news.

it's not a exception, we even have some websites to recommand english games with chinese translations, and u can find some not famous games become famous in china cuz they made chinese translations. AND if ur games are not famous at all, only making chinese translation wont change anything, the point is game itself, and yeah with chinese translation.

check all true news on TikTok, i know eng people can find chinese true news ezly on Tiktok before

yeah, ur so nice lol

and they have a boom jam

in racing game, eng says "ready...go", the same one meaning for chinese is "准备...冲/出发", nobody says "准备好"

and "设置这个时间" sounds missing a part, like "设置这个时间(为3点)", or if u only wanna mean "mathc this time"(didnt say the target time), then u can say "匹配上这个时间" or "调整为这个时间" or "设置为这个时间", the point is u need to add "为" to means "to", like "match (to) this time", to correct with chinese grammer

i tested it, i think u can replace "准备好！" to "准备！", and replace "设置这个时间" to "目标时间" or "设置为这个时间" or "调整为这个时间"

i think yes (based on "many small games, and anyone can upload games, and there is a community"), https://www.gcores.com/

but i usually use itch.io lol, i just found gcores.com some weeks, cuz my chinese friends told me about it

Just wanted to ask why most games that require localization only consider Spanish, German, Russian, and so on, and when translating to Asian languages, they are mostly Korean and Japanese, with almost no one choosing Chinese. Why, because Chinese is difficult or there are no Chinese people playing?

im here cuz i wanna tell u: ur artworks look amazing and cute :p

i think maybe not :p

i found one, but not sure if he will do this, it will be nice if u wanna join  us! Now we have a discord group and there are 3 guys, programmer, writer/music guy and an artist

yeah i delete it myself

Copyright should not be limited to capitalism, as it can also exist elsewhere. But there is no such thing as whether tools are capitalist or not, it is the operating model and users behind them. Your view that using AI is capitalism is very one-sided.

womp womp

yeah, i think not everything perfect, u just make a game and show it, not need to be shame

The theme emphasized by China now (or rather the theme I learned about about about 8 years ago) is "innovation and autonomy". Schools encourage middle school students to participate in a competition, which requires you to draw a picture to describe the future. You can give some ideas and thoughts, and even provide a feasible design plan. Regarding copyright issues, most programmers in China are not very concerned about AI copyright issues, but artists are very disliked (referring to those who draw, not including artists who make sculptures or other things, and I don't know about that type of people). However, apart from that, the public has a indifferent attitude and likes to use AI to generate funny pictures or interesting videos. The reasons why domestic artists dislike AI that I have heard are mostly related to copyright. They feel that AI has infringed on their painting copyright. However, I think AI itself is a process of learning images, providing prompt words, and then generating autonomously. I don't think this is considered infringement (but if I say this, artists will definitely kill me). The copyright policy in China is also similar. You can apply for a copyright, and there is a copyright period during which no one can steal your design. Then there is a phenomenon: many graduate or doctoral students must apply for a certain number of copyrights, although I don't know the meaning of this behavior, I think it's just too much. It's just some junk copyright

Sorry for writing so many words. When I wrote in Chinese, I didn't realize how much content I had written. English is too verbose ..

We have a specific word to describe those who specialize in smearing domestic affairs and making people follow in the footsteps of the United States, but I can't translate it haha

idk the other countries, but i think food in China is enough, so yeah, but i mean the world run based on it, i think if someone can change it...that's too hard thb lol, after all, this world already run by this way like maybe 4000 years. i guess we need a character like Jesus lol. and well in China, before people basicly follow the west way, like copy how USA does it, and import a lot of things like capital, the core of capitalism, and even a Chinese person wrote an article praising capitalism, which was published in schools and every middle school student had to learn (to be honest, I hated this article at the time). 

So in the past, many people in China were actually "worshipping foreign things" or blindly believing in the identity of the "beacon of justice" of the United States. I was also very fond of the United States before I was about 10 years old (because you know, we have to learn English, and most English teachers are from studying abroad in the United States, so they blindly believe in the United States), until later when I went online myself, I found that although many people also like the United States online, after reading history, I realized that the United States is clearly not a so-called "just country"? (Although I later understood that a country cannot be judged by justice or evil, because a country is a collective, a collection of many people), overall, Chinese people now basically understand a truth, which is that we cannot blindly trust Westerners, we need our own system to better protect ourselves

(used translation, cuz too much words XD)

yeah u didnt say that, i mean in the vid the guy talk about, he metioned private property or something

i mean right now, the world still run base on u need to buy food, but yeah, basic things like food if they can be free, then it's alreay like communist society, but it's still far away. I come from a big city but not hot citys for foreigners i guess... Actually, when I was a child, I was very skeptical about the idea that "copyright can stimulate innovation", but my teacher felt that this was my problem lmao

i see, so when u say private property, it means copyright or something, i thought something reality, like u buy a food, it's ur propertydemolition. i think the way he said (reward people for new ideas) is a good way. but now copyright has a time limit about 60 years, right? it can slightly reduce the impact and ensure the rights of those who invent new things.

im not sure, but yeah, since it's a jam project, i think we'd better keep it simple, so yeah, 2D is a nice option

However, I may not have a very good understanding of capitalism, after all, I do not live in a capitalist society. I am in China, which is a socialist country, but copyright and private property still exist.

Although I don't know why anti capitalism requires the removal of private property After all, I believe that even in the era of true communism, it is still more reasonable for people to have the concept of private property. Think about it, aren't your bedroom and computer, as well as your toys and badminton rackets, basketballs, all your private property?

Or perhaps my concept of private property is different from what you mentioned, I don't quite understand it

This person did not mention the issue of AI and copyright disputes. Did I overlook it?

In addition, Marxism or communism, in fact, aims to enable people to live freely without the need for work, which requires great productivity to achieve. However, this person claims that Marxism advocates the value of labor, but no, he has mistaken the target

I have written a lot, but I am afraid you may not have the patience to read through everything, so I try to keep it brief again: I think the organizers do not allow people to use AI, perhaps because they think that the AI on the market is basically created by training data with copyright disputes, so using these AI is infringing on copyright.

Although you mentioned no copyright, anti capitalism and no copyright are often not contradictory. You can see many capitalist companies using no copyright projects, or they themselves open source many AI models and projects.

But actually, I don't really care about copyright issues. Maybe it's because I'm a programmer, not an artist (you know). I think anti capitalism is more about expressing: there is no oppression of the people, no forced work of the people, no enslavement of the people, and so on. And the things you mentioned about private property and copyright, I think they have nothing to do with capitalism, they can also exist in other ideologies, such as socialism.

So you think "fuck capitalism" means support content generated by AI? Dude, they are not positively or negatively correlated, they are two separate things in themselves.

that will be nice, but actually we still didnt find a artist lol

i guess yeah, why not? and we can decide the details of the game

Right now, there is only me here, but if u can code for Unity, i mean sure yeah, we can make it together

just like the title, i use Unity 2022 and Unity 6, i can code 2D and 3D game, we can discuss the details of it then decide it :))

My discord: maxy_0102

OvO

date?

sure, sry just saw it, idk why itch just told me this

is there any pictures to show how this project like? :))