Extract text strings for localization from a GameMaker Studio 2 project, and save it to a JSON file.
I might make this a proper text localization tool later. Who knows.
In case you're wondering, Version 1 was this thing. It worked, kinda.
This tool will pull out any bare string passed as the first parameter to a localization function.
var localized_text = __("The quick brown fox jumped over Donald Trump");
The localization function can be named anything. The default is two underscores (__).
Anything that is not a bare string will not work, and will probably cause the output to break:
var localized_text = __("The quick brown fox " + "jumped over Donald Trump");
/* name = "Donald Trump" */
var localized_text = __("The quick brown fox jumped over " + name);
/* text = "The quick brown fox jumped over Donald Trump" */
var localized_text = __(text);
In any event, if you actually want to translate a game to different languages, you're going to need some kind of string formatter anyway, because most languages don't follow the same rules as whatever language you are developing in.
/* name = "Donald Trump" */
var localized_text = __("The quick brown fox jumped over %0");
var formatted_text = format(localized_text, name);
From there, you can save it to a json file.
It's a Visual Studio project, or something
- Program icon - Language by The Icon Z from the Noun Project