Polyglot Pirates Wanted
We are looking for help from people interested to translate words for our upcoming game, Polyglot Pirates, a language learning game about pirates traveling the seas in echance for Name Credits.
1. Translations
For start, we will focus on few languages:
- Spanish, German, French, Russian, Chinese, Romanian.
Out of the 30 that there will be in total:
"ar","bg","cs","da","de","el","es","fi","fr","hu","id","it","ja","ko",
"nl","no","nn","nb","pl","pt","ro","ru","sv","th","tr","uk","vi","zh",
"cmn","yue","wuu","nan","hak"
As well as a total of 1000 easy to use words (eg.):
about,adv
above,adv
action,noun
activity,noun
actor,noun
actress,noun
...
If you want to help, join our Discord, select the roles according to the languages you speak, and contribute to the Polyglot Dictionaries.
All of the public data as well as the words will be located in the Polyglot Dictionaries, a free and open source repository you can contribute to.
Words
The words will come from wiktionary.en, the free Dictionary.
We take about 1000 basic words to form a basic dictionary, and take translations from Wiktionary (some of the translations are bad and need to be removed):
| Code | Language | Link |
|---|---|---|
| ar | Arabic | words_ar.csv |
| bg | Bulgarian | words_bg.csv |
| cs | Czech | words_cs.csv |
| da | Danish | words_da.csv |
| de | German | words_de.csv |
| el | Greek | words_el.csv |
| es | Spanish | words_es.csv |
| fi | Finnish | words_fi.csv |
| fr | French | words_fr.csv |
| hu | Hungarian | words_hu.csv |
| id | Indonesian | words_id.csv |
| it | Italian | words_it.csv |
| ja | Japanese | words_ja.csv |
| ko | Korean | words_ko.csv |
| nl | Dutch | words_nl.csv |
| no | Norwegian (generic) | words_no.csv |
| nn | Norwegian Nynorsk | words_nn.csv |
| nb | Norwegian Bokmål | words_nb.csv |
| pl | Polish | words_pl.csv |
| pt | Portuguese | words_pt.csv |
| ro | Romanian | words_ro.csv |
| ru | Russian | words_ru.csv |
| sv | Swedish | words_sv.csv |
| th | Thai | words_th.csv |
| tr | Turkish | words_tr.csv |
| uk | Ukrainian | words_uk.csv |
| vi | Vietnamese | words_vi.csv |
| zh | Chinese (generic) | words_zh.csv |
| cmn | Chinese (Mandarin) | words_cmn.csv |
| yue | Chinese (Cantonese) | words_yue.csv |
| wuu | Chinese (Wu) | words_wuu.csv |
| nan | Chinese (Min Nan / Hokkien) | words_nan.csv |
| hak | Chinese (Hakka) | words_hak.csv |
2. Gameplay
Select Language
When the game starts, you will be able to set your base language and the language you want to learn:
Gameplay - Word match
This is an older prototype of word match - Match words to have the player move or attack in the game:
Gameplay - Hangman
Guess letter by letter from base language to target language. You can make mistakes, but if you make too many, you will have to wait until you can guess again. Every word you complete moves the ship or attacks in the game:
Gameplay - Letter Square
Find words inside a square of letters. After a while, you will get hints (this is WIP):