Female Characters referred to a "He"???

[GrimRose0w0]

Why are all the female characters Male? You'd figure choosing the B option would code it to "She/Her" identification.

[CawsMeCal]

Because it's translated from Chinese and not really well done. Most Chinese games that don't have a good translation do not handle the gender correctly. Language differences.

[GrimRose0w0]

Originally posted by KawsMeCal:

Because it's translated from Chinese and not really well done. Most Chinese games that don't have a good translation do not handle the gender correctly. Language differences.

Fair enough. Was just wondering why it was in the final cut. I'm sure it'll get fixed over time then.

[Galah]

Originally posted by GrimRose0:

Originally posted by KawsMeCal:

Because it's translated from Chinese and not really well done. Most Chinese games that don't have a good translation do not handle the gender correctly. Language differences.

Fair enough. Was just wondering why it was in the final cut. I'm sure it'll get fixed over time then.

Maybe, maybe not. The might not even have way to differentiate if an athlete is male or female.

[千水]

Because we can't tell the gender of the contestants...

[千水]

Originally posted by 千水:

Because we can't tell the gender of the contestants...

It's not in our code... This is a localization issue, it is not a high priority, and we may not fix this issue until too long

[Grillchef Norbert]

Hey 1000Water! I'm a gamedev from Switzerland and here many people use "localizor" (https://www.localizor.com/) to have the community help with translations into different languages. I've seen other posts asking for localizations into French or German but ofc. this would also work for English!

[Kexan]

The grammatically correct way to refer to someone of unknown gender in English is to use 'they'. Just do a find and replace of 'he' with 'they' and it's done.

[GrimRose0w0]

Male: He/Him/His
Female: She/Her/Hers
Neither: They/Them/Theirs

[sintri]

I mean he/she is technically genderless in mandarin,though the written character is different for male/female.

[TheRogueFedora]

Originally posted by 千水:

Originally posted by 千水:

Because we can't tell the gender of the contestants...

It's not in our code... This is a localization issue, it is not a high priority, and we may not fix this issue until too long

Telling your paying customers they're problems aren't your priority is not smart business.

[parent child bowl]

Originally posted by TheRogueFedora:

Originally posted by 千水:

It's not in our code... This is a localization issue, it is not a high priority, and we may not fix this issue until too long

Telling your paying customers they're problems aren't your priority is not smart business.

Not what they said.

[Zephyr]

I have to say I don't understand the "we can't tell the gender of our contestants".

Upon character creation there seem to be "body 1" for males, and "body 2" for females. Code wise you just need to align body type with the pronouns to use for them. A lot of games just do that when people can make their own characters.

It also helps the modders: They can make their characters models be a body 1 or body 2 one, and if the code adjust pronouns on that, the game will immediately recognise if it's a male or a female, and use the right pronouns.

This is relatively easy to do. I see that used a lot for text based games.

[Marcus Brutus]

small issue, surprised so many people have their underwear knotted.
I'm surprised the localisation is as good as it is tbh, Comparatively speaking vs other Asian games.

[Zephyr]

To be fair, it just kinda, how to really put it... Disrupt the narrative? Each time the pronouns gets wrong, well it feels like something is broken, or buggy, and gets in the way of what's happening on screen.

You know, like this janky element of your game that you know is there, got kinda used to, but is just slightly irritating each time you have to deal with it, and comes back all the time? That thing.

I'm a female coach, with a female assistant and 4 of my players are female, so of course, I run into it a lot. When it happens over and over and over and over... Well it gets kinda grating after the 50-ish time.

Now I want to amend something I said it's pretty easy to put the system in place so the gender and pronoun of a character are always adjusted according to body type, but there is a caveat to that: The whole script is going to have to be re-checked first to put in place the markers that will allow the adjustements to take place. That, on the other end, is longer. But the good thing is once it's done, it will be "set for life" so to speak, unless new dialogues are added. Basically it's an editing process to double-check the script is as it should be.

[GrimRose0w0]

Originally posted by Marcus Brutus:

small issue, surprised so many people have their underwear knotted.
I'm surprised the localisation is as good as it is tbh, Comparatively speaking vs other Asian games.

Because some people like to address their characters properly?