Comments on: Say What? Say What?!?

By: freewaydog

freewaydog — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:53:49 +0000

I just can’t wait ’til the game comes out. I hope it is soon & that I could understand this language.

By: Wallaby

Wallaby — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:02:05 +0000

This language concept sounds great! Certainly gets the Wallaby stomp of approval.
And here’s the first lesson for everyone:
“Wallaby needs more turnips” comes out as:
Lorum: as fele travagrala mi
Kline: memoo hr no mo

The key words being Mi & Mo. Remember them. You never know who you’ll have to get your turnips from.

By: Citrine

Citrine — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:07:08 +0000

@Kage … That’s something we’re already exploring .. using runes and symbols for some of the languages, especially some of the more ancient languages. And unless it adversely affects game play or performance, we’ll probably do something along those lines.

@freeway … Don’t worry, it won’t be impossible. We’re all gamers and believe that game play is more important than “being cool” with fancy stuff. ((and if some of the fancy stuff is just too cool to pass up, we’ll figure out a way to make it optional for the players ))

By: freewaydog

freewaydog — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:25:55 +0000

I just do not want gameplay to be too impossible for me.

By: KageNoOni

KageNoOni — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:12:35 +0000

A thought to consider, how about making some of those languages use a different writing system. Not all languages use the romanized alphabet, so why do that in a game? How about having some of these people who don’t speak the common language communicate through what appear to be symbols for those who don’t speak the language? I think that would make seeing some of these NPC’s speaking a bit more interesting.

By: Freewaydog

Freewaydog — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:52:40 +0000

Thanks, hopefully, I will be able to do the language thing enough to get by w/ those “rare cases”.

By: Citrine

Citrine — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:15:25 +0000

Hey Freewaydog,

It may seem confusing now .. more than likely because of the way I described it … but we’ll try to make it as simple and intuitive as possible.

And if you don’t want to learn a new language, you don’t have to.
With the exception of certain rare cases, all NPCs (quest givers, shopkeepers, trainers, etc) will speak common.

I’ll talk a little more about learning new languages in my next post … but for the most part, it’ll be as simple as listening to someone talk in that language.

By: Freewaydog

Freewaydog — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:37:58 +0000

This language thing will be confusing to me. How will we learn the languages?