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Language filter in search

A topic by RockyMullet created Oct 13, 2022 Views: 841 Replies: 2
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Hi ! I wanted to try localisation since it's pretty much a must have for commercial games.

So I translated one of my game in French and it's an option in the menu, so the game is playable both in English and French.

So I was happy to update my metadata to add "French" to the supported language.
Then I wanted to look how to search for games supporting French and... could not find any way to search for it.
The search for games doesn't have a language filter or a tag or anything.
Searching directly for "French" would find meme games with baguettes and French stereotypes or games to learn French.
Searching for "français" aka French in French will find games only in French with the word "Français" in their title.
So there's just... no way of looking for a game that supports a certain language without looking for a game in that language only.

Am I missing something ? It seems weird to me that there's metadata to tell what language a game support and no way for people to look for games supporting that languages.

TLDR: There should have a language filter in the search for games.

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That's right, the free-form search is optimized for exact title searches. You can filter by language by following the link in your game's More Information box. Guess there were just too many languages to list in the directory.

Thanks for the reply !
I actually found through google itch games translated in french.
https://itch.io/games/lang-fr

But it doesnt seem to have a way to find that directly from itch (from a player's point of view I mean), but at least there's a way, so I'm guessing people looking for translated games will know how to find them.