{"id":990,"date":"2015-01-26T18:28:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T02:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/?p=990"},"modified":"2015-05-13T12:03:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T19:03:24","slug":"language-localization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/language-localization\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Languages in Universe Sandbox \u00b2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our goals is to make Universe Sandbox \u00b2 accessible to a wide range of users. No matter your age, scientific background, or experience with other simulators or video games, you should be able to pick up Universe Sandbox \u00b2 and let your curiosity drive your exploration of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>One obstacle that may stand in the way is language. Right now, if English is not your first language, you may have a somewhat difficult time navigating Universe Sandbox \u00b2.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that we&#8217;re making progress on language localization. This makes it possible to switch on-the-fly between a bunch of languages beyond English. \u00a0Right now we&#8217;re working on German and Danish, thanks to the native speakers on our team. Below is an early screenshot showing most of the UI text translated to German. (Note: we used Google Translate simply for demonstration purposes.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Universe-Sandbox-\u00b2-Localization.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1342\" alt=\"Universe Sandbox \u00b2 - Localization\" src=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Universe-Sandbox-\u00b2-Localization-650x350.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Universe-Sandbox-\u00b2-Localization-650x350.jpg 650w, https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Universe-Sandbox-\u00b2-Localization-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Universe-Sandbox-\u00b2-Localization.jpg 1403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also on our shortlist is French and Spanish. After that, there&#8217;s no shortage of languages we&#8217;d like to support, including Russian, Chinese, Portuguese, etc. \u00a0It&#8217;s possible we&#8217;ll open up the translation process to the public community at a future date.<\/p>\n<p>If you do not yet own Universe Sandbox \u00b2, you can buy it now to get instant access to the alpha, as well as free updates up to and including the final release:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/universesandbox.com\/2\">universesandbox.com\/2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our goals is to make Universe Sandbox \u00b2 accessible to a wide range of users. No matter your age, scientific background, or experience with other simulators or video games, you should be able to pick up Universe Sandbox \u00b2 and let your curiosity drive your exploration of the universe. One obstacle that may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}