[Scummvm-devel] consistent naming of a game state

Ben Castricum scummvm at bencastricum.nl
Tue Aug 19 19:31:34 CEST 2014


That's fine by me as well. So this means (picked 2 random lines from the 
.pot):

"Select a game to LOAD" => "Select a saved game to load"
"Successfully saved game state in file:" => "Successfully saved game in 
file:"

or would saving a game be called "creating a saved game"?

Ben

On 19-8-2014 16:30, Matthew Hoops wrote:
> I'm definitely a fan of "saved game". It's also what the wikipedia
> page is named (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saved_game). As a native
> speaker, I've also never heard anything else spoken.
>
> Matt
>
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Ben Castricum <scummvm at bencastricum.nl> wrote:
>> While translating ScummVM I noticed that quite a lot lines are about
>> saving/loading a game state. And there seems to some diversity about how
>> such a thing is called. In the scummvm.pot file I could find these :
>>
>> - game
>> - game state
>> - gamestate
>> - save
>> - SAVE game
>> - save game
>> - savegame(s)
>> - savefile(s)
>> - save state
>> - savestate
>>
>> It would help the translators if a consistent name would be used. I can
>> imagine not all can be replaced because some lines are literally taken
>> from a game and for authenticity reasons those should remain as is. But
>> in all other cases it would save some work if just one name would be
>> used. It may also help to improve the general look/feel of ScummVM.
>>
>> Personally I would choose "gamestate" because (IMHO) that really defines
>> what it is, and the English language seems to concatenate words like
>> this into a single word. Also "save the gamestate?" sounds better than
>> "save the savegame?". But it would already help if there would be just
>> one name.
>>
>> Any thoughts from the devs on this subject?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ben
>>
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