“Also worth watching are these insights into the game design”
Insights into Obra Dinn game design.
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Pope nailed in with Obra Dinn in how he implemented the detective gameplay and story telling. The game had me with several wtf story moments. This is one of those games that I'm reluctant to start playing as I don't want it to end to soon but can't stop playing once I've started it. Also worth watching are these insights into the game design (and a chance to enjoy the soundtrack again) (spoiler warning): this videolink
RecommendscollegeburnerAug 2022
“combining one of my fave video series with one of my fave gamedevs.”
War Stories episode with Lucas Pope on Obra Dinn.
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Arstechnica did a war stories with him on Return of the Obra Dinn, combining one of my fave video series with one of my fave gamedevs. this video
Cites itdale_glassAug 2023
“as the maker of Obra Dinn discovered”
Example of tricky localization of items in Obra Dinn.
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A particularly tricky case of this is with usernames and user defined content. Eg, a notification like "Alice is online" in some languages requires knowing Alice's gender. Which may be something that's not even stored anywhere in the system. There's probably some language out there that requires some other piece of personal info for a correct translation. To make things tricky, try having a multitude of items that you refer to: "You're holding a dagger". Now you need to have a serious discussion with your translators, because this is going to get all kinds of tricky, as the maker of Obra Dinn discovered: this video And to make things extra-tricky, allow users to create content. "Alice gave you a banana", where "banana" is a custom object Alice made herself. Most translation efforts seem to give up at this point and resort to something stilted like "Alice: online"
