Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
The following screenshot shows the C# properties:
Accessing C# properties
Localization
Perhaps one of the most underappreciated and underdocumented aspect of game
development is localization. This refers to the broad range of technical, economic,
and logistical measures a developer takes to support multiple natural languages in
their game, such as English, French, German, Spanish, Esperanto, and so on. The
technical aim is not so much to support this or that specific language, but rather to
establish an infrastructure that could support any arbitrary language chosen at any
time, now or later. The entire scope and role of localization in development is beyond
the scope of this topic, but here we'll examine one way in which the Unity Editor
can be customized to facilitate a quick and easy localization workflow. For example,
consider the following sample XML file, in which game text for the buttons in a main
menu system is defined in both English and a "spoof language" called Yoda:
