[Scummvm-devel] consistent naming of a game state

[Ben Castricum]

Ok, I created a pull request which changes the ScummVM GUI/CLI to this. 
I am curious to what you all think of this. It seems that the term 
"savegame" is only used by scummvm and not by any of the engines.

I am willing to do the work of going through this engine by engine.

Ben

On 19-8-2014 19:32, Matthew Hoops wrote:
>
> I'd say the act is "saving a game", but the object itself is a "saved 
> game".
>
> Matt
>
> On Aug 19, 2014 1:30 PM, "Ben Castricum" <scummvm at bencastricum.nl 
> <mailto:scummvm at bencastricum.nl>> wrote:
>
>
>     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>  <mailto: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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