“There are also so many complications with writing for Kenshi I have to train new writers for so many months to get into good ‘Kenshi habits’, to understand how wordswaps fit together grammatically, to check sentences flow together nicely (procedural dialogue can fit together extremely clunky due to the many alternative combinations), even just drilling in Kenshi’s themes and consistencies. And it was hard to fully monitor this on top of my other work,” says Natalie, who had a particularly difficult time trying to manage the localisation of Kenshi in 8 different languages whilst writing the game. You’re completely at the mercy of trusting other people to know what they’re doing or that they’re actually putting care into it. “The most frustrating challenge in managing localisation is not being able to speak the languages yourself to verify the quality and how it’s going.
In this month’s community update, the two share insight behind the much-improved technique behind Kenshi 2’s translation and our future development plans for non-English players. The pair are now using their experience with Kenshi 1 to improve and perfect the Kenshi 2 localisation process so that non-English speakers can enjoy the game as it was intended.
The world does not level up along with you and the game won't hold your hand.Ĭopyright 2016, Copyright Lo-Fi Games Ltd.Kenshi 1’s translation was managed by Lo-Fi’s Lead Writer – Nat, and our Japanese Localisation, PR and Community Manager – Meg (now also Localisation Lead).
Kenshi is an open world, squad based sandbox RPG set in a brutal sword-punk wasteland.
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