Using AI to make a whole game? No! Using AI to help you make a game more efficiently at certain points? Yes. Pic provided by X's minakonha #indiegame #indiedev #AIgame #Grok #stellarblade

Why there is a fishing mini game in every RPG game? Does anyone know the true reason? #indiegame #indiedev #fishing #rpg

If an indie game got millions expense or even more on publishing, marketing and public opinion controlling , do you think it could still be considered as an indie game? #indiegame #indiedev #publisher

I think I misspelled Ghost yesterday.

Fun fact, Chinese gamers call the protagonist Of Gohst Of Yotei "Rain Sis Of Yotei", because she has similar vibe of a Chinese internet influencer who named Rain Sis Of Dongbei. You have to admit they look very tough and strong. Chinese gamers kinda love this game #indiegame #indiedev #GohstOfYotei

In Chinese culture, there is no term sounds like or means "Hellfire", but there is a saying: You play with fire, eventually you will burn yourself. Stop adding nonsence when translate, it causes jokes and troubles. #indiegame #indiede #chineseculture

How far should a dev listen to gamers' opinions? We say 30%-40% maximumly. Is gamers' voice important? Yes! But are they always correct? No! As a dev, understanding the genre and the game, be confident not arrogant. Be better not be pleasing everyone. #indiegame #indiedev #GrokImagine

Marketing expense should always be a part of your budget, no matter you are making a game or doing other business. This world is full of products now, some hidden gems will always be hidden, sadly. #indiegame #indiedev

At this moment, we don't think the new Chinese localization could be perfect to all Chinese gamers, they are holding different opinions and tastes. Sometimes, a first-sight-click determines a translated word, even it's done wrong. #indiegame #indiedev #Silksong

The final message from legendary Tomonobu Itagaki: #DOA6 #NINJAGAIDEN2

Good bye Tomonobu Itagaki. さようなら　板垣伴信。一路走好，板垣伴信。

The newest Chinese localization for Silksong (in-test-version) failed again. Whatever who TC work with, we think those translators have too much ego. They unnecessarily changed some terms. #indiegame #indiedev #localization #Silksong

We never put any agenda in localization. Localization isn't rewriting the original cultural contenxt to achieve some purposes. Localization is pure language exchange, respect the oringial context, and turn it into other languages accurately, and that's all! #indiegame #indiedev #localization

Bonfire/Camp trap is a ricky gameplay design. Most of times, it would fail, it breaks the trust between the gamers and the game. It's like a monster in your toilet, no where is ever safe. #indiegame #indiedev

Still one of the most unique space jump scenes in movie/gaming/comic industry. #indiegame #indiedev #rebelmoon #StarWars #SnyderVerse

3 facts about our company： 1, All members are actual gamers. 2, We offer professional authentic Chinese localization and game consulting service. 3, We run multiple real gamer gourps on Chinese SNS, all true followers, no bots! 4, Sometimes we offer more just like this post. #indiegame #indiedev

low budget solution for creating better attack-feeling(how players feel when they do attack in games): 1, adding white flashlight when hitting enemy. 2,Hit-stop 3, screenshake 4, Instead of using realistic sound, try powerful SFX. #indiegame #indiedev

There is a professional Chinese gamer said: Hollow Knights and Silk Song are more like bullet heaven game, if you see each bug enemy as a bullet and its attack as a special bullet alternation, this game will become easier when you play it. #indiegame #indiedev #hollowknight #SilkSong

The most difficult part of localization is to translate jokes between different cultural backgrounds. And the most common jokes are dirty s3x jokes, well, that's human nature we guess, lol. #indiegame #indiedev #culture

Keep building!

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Game devs, if you need authentic Chinese localization service, we are here, but we can offer more! We are a gamer team and we are managing multiple gamer fan groups in China, we have few uprising Chinese SNS channels, so you will get more from us. #indiegame #indiedev

Don't launch EA on Steam unless you already have a stable fan-base and wishlist with good numbers. Steam seems doesn't like to promote game in EA stage. We talked with few studios, the devs told us so. #indiedev #indiegame #steam #earlyaccess

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Our company worked on Chinese localization for this wonderful historical game. We read some documents to make sure that our words are historical accurate. Somehow we managed staying faithful to the orginal texts yet still making everything fit in Chinese language nuances. #indiegame #IndieGameDev

It happens thousands of times. Asian gamers leave bad reviews first, they complain about the unreasonable difficulty, design flaws, bugs, then 2 weeks later, the western gamers start to leave bad reviews too. So don't be angry about Asian gamers, they play faster sometimes #indiegame #indiedev

Do you know HP is Hit-Point in Japanese, and Health-Point in English? Chinese gamers call it Blood-Point（血量）or Life-Point（生命值）, but they just say HP as it is. (For most of times) #indiegame #indiedev #gameknowlegde

Any translator shall not put their own agenda into the orginal context. But translating puns or jokes in their own culture adaptation is forgivable. #indiegame #indiedev #culture

The disaster of Chinese localization for Silksong strikes again and more! In monster diary, the Chinese translator wrote things that were completely different from the original text, some are not even wrong and it brings question: Why they did this, re-writting the whole thing? #indiegame #indiedev

The current Chinese translation of Silksong even translated the final boss's name wrong!! The orginal name is Grand Mother Silk, but the Chinese version was Mother Of Pale. I don't blame translator only, this what happened when a dev doesn't offer a demo nor talk with community. #indiegame #indiedev

To all game devs, even you had Chinese localization done for your game, make sure you have Chinese font installed in your computer! Otherwise some Chinese words will present in Japanese, becuz they are similar. Then your game might be doomed, unless your game is Silksong. #indiegame #indiedev

If you keep on killing, you will create something that you cannot kill, but it will kill you. ----Quote from the movie, John Wick. #johnwick #movie #indiegame #indiedev

We proudly announce that we are partnered with a tabletop card game studio: Bagel Cuture Studio. We are helping them on the Chinese & Englishe & Japanese localization and value-balancing consulting. It's a western fantasy mythological card game. #indiegame #indiedev #cardgame #tabletopgames

What we can learn from Silk Song's Chinese localization failure(v1.0): Chinese language is a complex language that evoved through thousands years, every game studio should hire professional Chinese speakers to check it or offer a demo to all gamers, get feedbacks #indiegame #indiedev #Silksong

Cultural difference: what people say before critisize, in general situation: Asian people: Ok I'm gonna say something bad to you, be careful. Western people: Wow, wonderful, great, but... So on Steam, is the possitive thumbs up really a good review? Or it's just a social manner #indiegame #indiedev

Asian gamers be like: #indiegame #indiedev #steam #gamer #Culture

Silk Song's nerf patches are coming. Here we go again, if Asian players say your game is hard and problematic, then your game is 99% very hard and problematic for majority gamers. #indiegame #indiedev #hollowknight #silksong

Which one is you? 1. Silk Song is pure art. 2. Silk Song is pure pain. 3. I cannot sing any song. #hollowknight #indiegame #indiedev #metroidvania

Sometimes, gamers' double standards in a nutshell. #indiegame #indiedev

Actually, the Japanese players tend to leave bad reviews more. Because their rating Philosophy is like: everything starts with 0, then add points if the thing is good, so they just start with "Bad". Meanwhile most of people's rating is like, starts with 100, then minus points. #indiegame #indiedev

Ok, it's the time to say Silk Song may be a nice game but it definitely is NOT a good Metroidvania game. In true Metroidvania, you kill more, explore more, you are mighty more! You can face more danger, not danger kicks your ass more! #silksong #metroidvania #indiegame #indiedev

The bad Chinese localization backfire to Silksong is REAL... As a professional game consulting company, we offer accurate, cultural faithful, and easy-to-read Chinese localization for indie games! #indiegame #indiedev #silksong #chinese #hollowknight

Hollow Knight Silk Song is not a that-good-game. (This is me after I went to Hunter's march) #Silksong

Chinese player say the game is good, but the translation really sucks. 7 years of waiting, steam crush on launch. Hope we all learn a lesson: waiting leads to wanting, wanting sometimes leads to disappointing, disappointed by small things. #indiegame #indiedev #Silksong

So..here we go again, some Silk Song Chinese players are angry about the localization...they think the translation is pretending to be profound, not as good as Hollow Knight. #indiegame #indiedev #silksong #teamcherry

Who else cannot buy Silk Song on steam now? #indiegame #indiedev #hollowknight #Silksong

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Fun fact: Many Chinese gamers born in 90s LOVE pixel art games. Some of them even are tired of games which using generic UE5 materials, they care about gameplay more than pointless visuals. #indiegame #indiedev #pixelart #90s

What makes a JRPG stand out? 1, Memorable characters. 2, Good story plots and dialogues. 3, Start low end high, you may be a nobody at the beginning, in the end, you even can fight the gods. 4, Various skill builds for each character, it makes turn-base-combat more strategic. #indiegame #indiedev

Hit like or repost if you are one of them. #indiegame #indievde #silksong #HollowKnight #Marketing