MrChocodemon
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So after hundreds of hours poured into the late game I decided to start a new character for the Story mode.
And there is something bugging me with the way characters talk. Let's take a look at some examples I recently posted in the "Big SPELLING MISTAKES" Thread.
Nothing seems too worrying, right? In Secrets of Grindea there is a minor problem with nouns. Sometimes they are written in capital letters and sometimes not. In the last picture; Is the 'Collector' a name for the job of someone collecting? Or the first picture. Is the 'Teleport Plate' a generic item, is "Teleport Plate" it's name, or is it to emphasise?
I had a small conversation with Vilya and Teddy and asked them, why there is a colouring system in SoG for some things, but it isn't always used and the short answer is: readability. If everything was coloured to highlight according to the ingame "rules" (which can be found a little further down) then most dialogue would be a huge rainbow mess.
Or as Teddy put it:
There are some things that I, as a non native speaker of the english language, do/did not know and will propably put here and it might "wrong" for example I put this picture as a spelling error in the above mentioned thread.
I was thinking that this was erroneous capitalization of words while Teddy tought me that "Periods and Events" should be capitalized as proper nouns.
TL;DR
I'll be going through the game looking at text with a focus on colouring and emphasis and try to improve the
comprehensiveness. You can help by posting text passages and by discussing if certain text should be changed and if this would improve the same.
Two guidelines:
General Colour Coding
Red: Enemies
Blue: Characters
Purple: Places
Yellow: Items, Skills and other
And there is something bugging me with the way characters talk. Let's take a look at some examples I recently posted in the "Big SPELLING MISTAKES" Thread.
Nothing seems too worrying, right? In Secrets of Grindea there is a minor problem with nouns. Sometimes they are written in capital letters and sometimes not. In the last picture; Is the 'Collector' a name for the job of someone collecting? Or the first picture. Is the 'Teleport Plate' a generic item, is "Teleport Plate" it's name, or is it to emphasise?
I had a small conversation with Vilya and Teddy and asked them, why there is a colouring system in SoG for some things, but it isn't always used and the short answer is: readability. If everything was coloured to highlight according to the ingame "rules" (which can be found a little further down) then most dialogue would be a huge rainbow mess.
Or as Teddy put it:
Teddy said:
There are some things that I, as a non native speaker of the english language, do/did not know and will propably put here and it might "wrong" for example I put this picture as a spelling error in the above mentioned thread.
I was thinking that this was erroneous capitalization of words while Teddy tought me that "Periods and Events" should be capitalized as proper nouns.
TL;DR
I'll be going through the game looking at text with a focus on colouring and emphasis and try to improve the
comprehensiveness. You can help by posting text passages and by discussing if certain text should be changed and if this would improve the same.
Two guidelines:
- Readibilty comes first - no rainbow chaos
- Spelling mistakes have their own thread HERE
General Colour Coding
Red: Enemies
Blue: Characters
Purple: Places
Yellow: Items, Skills and other
