First computer game in Piedmontese language

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Freecol, a free software (under the GNU General Public License) has been released in Piedmontese. This makes the game, clone of Sid Meier's Colonization the first game to have been released in this language which is only spoken by about 2 million people.

Freecol, the simulation of the historical process that lead to the Declaration of Independence in North America, is the first computer game to be localized in Piedmontese language. The players need to perform the administrative and political actions to reach the goal of the game.

Version 0.7.0 in Piedmontese was released on 13 July 2007. Speakers of regional languages hope this will an examplar, so that more localizations of the game in other regional languages will be released over time.

The localization was done on Betawiki, the platform which is also used for the localization of the Mediawiki software.

Source: Wikinews
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