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by lducas • 12 years ago

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danielweber• 12 years ago

Having to translate from French does increase the difficulty.

atmosx• 12 years ago

yeah, that was kind of a blow to me...

ucarion• 12 years ago

This game is quite confusing even if you speak French.

Somehow playing a variant of tetris explains public key crypto.

flym4n• 12 years ago

Stalls after clicking "suite" of creating the public key

bgutierrez• 12 years ago

I like it so far. Do you already have plans for translating? I think I can read just enough french to understand what is going on and I'm interested in helping out.

dang• 12 years ago

I hope you do! This project sounds cool, and if you and/or others produce an English version, we'll waive the rule on duplicates and welcome a repost.

It seems like this work would best be discussed here once the entire community is able to play the game.

lducas7• 12 years ago

Thank you for the encouragement, and waiving the rules...

The game has just been released in French (36 hours) after two years of work; but yes I'm already thinking about translation...

Unfortunately, for budget reasons, the game wasn't originally designed for multilingual support; so there is work not only for translators but also for developers. The good news is that it is open source so we can make that happen.

Another solution might be to crowd-fund the translation and leave the multilingual support to Digitalcusine who know well its own source code and have done amazing work so far (especially considering budget constraints).

Anyway; I'm open to any suggestions and help on the matter; please email me if you'd like personnaly to help out so we can organize ourselves !

Thanks again. - L

lducas7• 12 years ago

Two editions pads for collaborative edition (Thx Framapad !) have been opened for the translation of the explanation articles to English: https://cryptris.framapad.org/1 and https://cryptris.framapad.org/2 .

The bug tracker has been opened on github to discuss implementation of multilingual support.

Merci !

contingencies• 12 years ago

I block twitter.com and Google Analytics, and this thing refuses to load. Well, you lost these eyeballs.

lducas7• 12 years ago

Sorry about that; working on it. Hopefully the english version will be able to skip those loading.

daformat3• 12 years ago

Can you please specify what is your config (including how you actually block those) so we can fix it?

boobsbr• 12 years ago

download the source and open index.html

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