Greetings, friends! We hope you are staying warm and safe. In this report, we will tell you about our successes in Ukrainian localization in January 2024, as well as some of our news from December 2023 that were not included in last year’s general review — 2023 in Review.

UKRAINIAN LOCALISATION

OFFICIAL RELEASES AND UPDATES

To begin with, the Ukrainian studio Frogwares is now the sole publisher of The Sinking City, so you can confidently buy the new version of the game on all your favorite platforms. Owners of the old version can download the updated one for free.

On the 25th anniversary of the original Baldur’s Gate game, we have released an update for our separate Ukrainian localization mode for Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition.

We would like to remind you that the game has an official Ukrainian localization, but it is rarely updated, so the Ukrainian localization mode was created as a patch to fix errors.

Drone simulator Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing has received an update that adds translation to some lines. We are also waiting for the next updates with error fixes.

We are still working on Baldur’s Gate 3, as updates with various improvements to the gameplay and translation are still being released.

If you would like to report an error, please send a screenshot along with a description of an error to the #baldurs-gate-3 channel on Discord or our website on the Contacts page, selecting the subject line “Report an error in Baldur’s Gate 3 “.

Moreover, we would like to remind you about the existence of the Baldur’s Gate 3 wiki in Ukrainian. We invite you to join and become a contributor and thus help to develop the Ukrainianization of game universes!

And finally, don’t forget to take the opportunity to pre-order “Minecraft. The Official Cookbook” from Mal’opus.

EDITING AND TRANSLATION

The situation with the volunteer projects looks like this:

Planescape: Torment – 20% translated.

Atom RPG: Trudograd – 99% translated.

Darkest Dungeon – 99% translated. The Ukrainian localization mode is available for download.

Kingdom Come Deliverance – editing continues, but due to the heavy workload of the editors, the progress is not very noticeable yet (~47.5%).

The rest of the projects are still without significant changes.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

On a podcast with Manifest, Yura Dragon spoke about his exceptional experience working on the localization of “Phantom Liberty”, a DLC for Cyberpunk 2077.

Last but not least, Oleksandr Lukianov organized three translation streams, during which, as you might have guessed from the title, he translated his portion of the text from Planescape: Torment. Viewers in the chat on our Twitch channel wrote their thoughts and tips on translating certain parts.

HALL OF FAME

On behalf of all our community, utmost thanks to our most active members:

• Natalia Andruk
• Alina Farafonova
• Pavlo Kuliamin
• Sofia Shul
• Anastasia Kachanova
• Yura Dragon
• Oleksii Ivanov
• Ivan Yankovyi
• Dmytro Holovchenko
• Yanis Verminko
• Olia Khmelnytska
• Tetiana Cherednychok
• Oleksandr Lukianov

JOIN US!

SBT Localization  always enjoys new talented, enthusiastic people who want to join the Ukrainianization of the universe. Try your hand at the  translator test, then if you succeed, write to us via the contact  form.

If you do not have enough time to to do the localization work yourselves but are willing to help bring the Ukrainian language to games, you can support us in a way you like:

1) become our patron on  Patreon;

2) become our patron on Buy me a coffee;

3) become our patron on Donatello;

4) transfer any amount to account 4731 1856 1396 5158 (PrivatBank, recipient Sofia Shul), or Monobank Money Jar. Be sure to include your name and last name in the description field (sometimes banks do not show the sender’s information), so we will know whom to thank.

OUR THANKS

We truly thank everyone who supported the  SBT Localization team in December and January on Patreon, Buy me a coffee, Donatello, and in other ways. We wish you and your families health, success and prosperity!

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UKRAINIZATION OF THE UNIVERSE MARCHES ON!

February 22, 2024