Localized Game Titles and Descriptions

kalypso3 · November 30, 2018, 1:40am

Hey Developers!

As Roblox grows into a global community, you’ll need more tools and features to internationalize your games and tap into the global market.

We’re extremely excited to announce the availability of one of these critical features: you can now add your game title and description in other languages! Doing so means your game will be discoverable in multiple languages.

This feature can be accessed through a new Create menu item called “Configure Localization”. Future localization features like translation management will also be released here. Our goal is to give you a “one-stop shop” to manage localizing your content.

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The localization portal currently consists of two sections: “Source Language” and “Game Name and Description Translations.”

Source language is the language your game is written in. If your source language is a Roblox platform language (English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish), please update this setting accordingly. This will be extremely helpful for future language sorts and features. Please note: once you set a source language, you cannot change it back to "Not Specified.” You should only need to set your source language once.

The Game Name and Description Translations section allows you to switch between languages to add translated names/descriptions. The source language name/description is NOT editable here. To edit source language name/description please return to Studio or Configure Game/Place.

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Once you save a localized name/description, your game will now be discoverable in that language! You can check how it appears by viewing your game detail page in the language you just added.

FAQ:

Q: Why can’t I edit source language content in the localization portal?
A: We don’t want to disrupt your current workflow for adding/editing source content. We’ve included source name/description so you can reference and compare content across all languages while source content remains editable only where it is originally.

Q: What if a language I’m interested in is not available?
A: We’re currently focused on adding support for Roblox platform languages (English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish). As our platform languages expand, so too will the dropdowns for localized content.

If you have any other questions, concerns, or feedback about this feature, ask them below!

Cheers,
kalypso3

Note: if your source description isn’t appearing in the localization portal, update and re-save your source description and try again.

MrLonely1221 · November 30, 2018, 1:57am

X_Z · November 30, 2018, 2:01am

A must need I say. Really excited for this!

buildthomas · November 30, 2018, 2:03am

This is fine… but as a developer I want to jump ahead on this right now. I would love to see more effort into allowing us to directly override the locale for players both in-game and letting us set more locales for the description on the web which could pick up on the browser’s locale (if the user wants that). It’s a shame that we need to wait for you guys to first fully localize the website in a language before we can use it. Locales should be generally applicable at any time (now, all of the foundation is already there).

BuildIntoGames · November 30, 2018, 2:07am

This is great! My only concern is most developers (including myself) include our changelog in the description. Either we are going to have to get even more creative with displaying this information or spend the time re-translating the description every time our games update, which is weekly for some of us.

ValkaRed · November 30, 2018, 2:23am

what an alguem br moment <3

Deftlock · November 30, 2018, 4:33am

Thanks for the support <3

nurgenius · November 30, 2018, 5:42am

@Neutre Your suggestion was heard!

younite · November 30, 2018, 7:33am

Brilliant!! It’s kinda contradictory that we can’t update the game icon either, if that’s going to be in English while the rest is in another language.

RoyallyFlushed · November 30, 2018, 11:29am

Great addition. Only, if you have a popular title, chances are you won’t change the language of it in other countries just like these massive MMOs out there today.

Dued1 · November 30, 2018, 11:50am

Haven’t been this excited for a new Roblox feature in a long time!

Neutre · November 30, 2018, 3:48pm

Yep they did!

Deftlock · November 30, 2018, 3:49pm

Thanks Neutre

SteadyOn · November 30, 2018, 4:27pm

You can just not edit the game title?

Intended_Pun · November 30, 2018, 4:36pm

Wow I didn’t notice that. I’m a silly goose

kalypso3 · November 30, 2018, 5:45pm

yep, we recognize there’s a lot more to localizing your game than the title and description but we wanted to start here for search and discoverability. We’ll be adding support for localized icons and thumbnails, hopefully in the next year, all within the same localization portal.

seyai01 · November 30, 2018, 6:40pm

Ya’ll have given me too much power.

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blutreefrog · December 1, 2018, 6:47am

Hey I’ve found an issue with this.

The game’s title is displaying in German despite me not having German as my computer’s language, (however the game title has been localized to German), this was fixed after a refresh.

Dued1 · December 1, 2018, 11:51am

Same. My game title was translated to Portuguese randomly. Happened once on mobile when browsing the games page.

kalypso3 · December 5, 2018, 12:20am

To help me understand the issue more fully can you answer these questions:

Did you add a translation in Portuguese?
Did the issue go away on refresh?
Did you set your source language?
any other details?

More details will help us track down what and why this is happening.