{"id":2668,"date":"2013-12-23T10:07:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T10:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2013-12-23T10:07:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T10:07:22","slug":"demokratie-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2013\/12\/23\/demokratie-3\/","title":{"rendered":"DEMOKRATIE 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so after my fairly low key release on my own site, finally Democracy 3 was released in German to steam yesterday. It&#8217;s been trickier than I suspected it would be, mainly due to GUI annoyances and web page shenanigans, but it is on-sale now.<\/p>\n<p>Sales to Germany have been pretty good, with 6% of revenue coming from there, in the English version 9and there are other countries that speak German, obviously). if I can boost sales to those countries by 25% then I have made money on the translation, so hopefully it will exceed that. It&#8217;s also cool to have more people play the game, and it&#8217;s interesting and exciting to have done something (funded and managed a pro translation) that I haven&#8217;t managed before. (Democracy 2 was translated, but on a revenue split basis).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PPQpkDvVJko?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As is typical, I&#8217;ve scheduled this for a stupid time (23rd December!) so I won&#8217;t get any press coverage, but just having the game come up with a German option has to boost sales in the long term. I can make German language copies available to any German gaming sites who only cover translated games, which is a bonus. I made a decision to go as far as I could in translation terms, so I translated the game text (obviously) and also the logo, got a new trailer done (twice!) translated the positech site page, and changed the steam screenshots and promo assets to have German text. I even have some German adwords ads I might experiment with a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you have German speaking friends who have turned the game down until today, please point them at the games <a href=\"http:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/democracy3\/index_german.html\">German website<\/a> or at the <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/245470\">steam page<\/a> for the game. Danke!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so after my fairly low key release on my own site, finally Democracy 3 was released in German to steam yesterday. It&#8217;s been trickier than I suspected it would be, mainly due to GUI annoyances and web page shenanigans, but it is on-sale now. Sales to Germany have been pretty good, with 6% of<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; DEMOKRATIE 3<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2013\/12\/23\/demokratie-3\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-democracy3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2669,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions\/2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}