Re: [glob2-devel] Revised Beta 4 Todo List

[Leo Wandersleb]

How is the state of some of our bugs?

the internationalization-bugs:
Do we still have no Japanese font in sight? same applies for Chinese as 
i just tested. there are 1.000.000.000 people that will not be able to 
play our game because we don't have their font?
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?16391
assuming there are 1.000.000.000 people capable of speaking English 
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?23989 leaves us with 5.000.000.000 
people not being able to play because even a 90%-translation is rendered 
useless with completely gone texts not giving the slightest chance to 
guess what the text would be in their language.
localization is a big issue. a very big one. almost all games do exist 
in English and maybe the language of the original authors. there are 
languages where glob2 would compete with a hand full of other games and 
not trillions like in English. i know from my work at a games company 
that competing in Arab or Turk is far easier than in English. please 
have a look at my tool at http://www.globulation2.org/translation/ . it 
only needs minor tweaks to be released. this will quickly get us many 
translations done. (i will provide both the automatic commit (not push) 
and the screenshots but would be very thankful if someone else would 
take the task.)
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?16393

the big-screen bugs:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?23428 looks like every glob gets drawn 
only once as the screen coordinate gets evaluated. here we will need a 
check if the screen wraps around the world and paint those globs at low 
coords twice or even 4 times (wrap in x and y). this has some nasty 
impacts on the code i guess but still it is no solution to keep it as 
is. maybe drawing all entities only once (clip to 64x64) would help to 
not confuse people.
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?23689 looks as if globs not getting 
drawn is not a wrapping around the world kind of problem. we need to 
investigate this.
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?23688 was commented with "sdl does not 
provide other resolutions". i guess in windowed mode sdl does not care 
about that. we must allow to play windowed

Greetings,

Leo Wandersleb