Would you like to translate Cities: Skylines in your own language?

You will find that the language files that the game uses, are not human editable. The languages files use a proprietary file format, that needs to be read and written to by the game's own objectoriented programming framework, called ColossalFramework.

Luckily, it is possibile and easy to use the ColossalFramework outside the game itself, and therefore it is possible to write programs to read and write the language files.

What do you need to translate?

• The game itself
  
• My programs to read/write the language files: http://www.freepascal.org/~daniel/skylines/cities_potools.zip
  
• Optional, but highly recommended: Lokalize, the Linux version comes with your Linux distribution, Windows version available for download here: https://userbase.kde.org/Lokalize

If you download my programs, there is a README file inside that tells you step by step how to translate the game.

Please note that translating the game is a lot of work, I estimate it at 60-80 hours of work. If you work for 4 hours per week on the translation, you will need approximately 4-5 months to finnish it! Maybe even more, because, usually, the fewer hours you work on it per week, the less efficient you are! Is it worth it? I receive many positive comments to my translation. Cities: Skylines is not just played by die-hard gamers, but by a very broad audience and it appears those people value a translation.

If you have any questions, ask your questions below or feel free to send me a friend request and I will try to help you.