Loc Notes

Oh yeah, here I am with one more of SquidGod's games.

I was legit excited for this one, having done the metroidvania tutorial from the youtube channel not long ago. Which was fundamental to get to know a bit of ltdk, the exporting of the levels from it and even the overall skeleton of the game. 

The main bits of the translation I feel were the dialogs that came from ltdk. So I altered them there direct on each npc. And didn't really bothered about the text box or anything like that. Like it would generate on its own and I knew would prevent overlaps or anything like that. So even tho the text flow can be a bit weird at times, I feel it's fine and it follows the source game. Also the dialog is more for flavour than for actual gameplay.

There were the chests and the upgrades to localize that was kinda fun cause they had a specific fit, so I couldn't just write anything. But also wasn't that hard to, more on the fun side of the choice of words.

There were also a couple of images with text for the end screen, but this time I feel I got the export a bit better. Also Squid gave me some golden tips of maybe why my first ones could seem a bit weird. For this game the font was on the credits too which was great. And more importantly linked me to this website https://kaasiand.cool/tophat/ that is amazing to create/adapt .fnt fonts and even .fnt + .png files. This way was easy to add the accentuated letters for Portuguese, and also was fundamental for the next games that I had.

So with all that done the game ran easy, did my usual second title as a translation of the game title. Tho this time I preferred to do it on the code as a simpler text using the main game's font. The smaller size using the same font as the main title wasn't to my liking so I liked my solution.

There were the final bits for the title screen and the menus, that was easy. And it was done.

The best part was for my own sanity checks I ended up playing through the whole game to test everything, see if I left anything behind or any massive mistakes. But was all good. And I finished the game, both levels. Super Super fun! Go play it if you can!

And aye, that was me. Ready for the next one to come!

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Any comments, suggestions, questions or anything just give me a wee shout on marcelo.terreiro@gmail.com

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mama