Ren’Py Translation Tutorial

Introduction
Hi, my name is FlyingFork and today I am going to show you how to make your own translation for
College Kings using the Ren’Py SDK.

This tutorial can also be used for other Ren’Py games too.

Requirements
First and foremost, you will need to download the Ren’Py SDK from their website
(https://www.renpy.org/latest.html). After you downloaded the SDK, download one of the supported
text editors (Atom, Editra, jEdit). I personally recommend Atom.

Installing the SDK

If you go to the link highlighted in blue you will be prompted with the following page:

What you want to do is press the green button (keep it mind that you could see a newer version). After
pressing the button, wait for the download to complete and open the .exe file.

After opening the .exe file, you just downloaded, you will be greeted with the following panel.
I recommend making a separate folder on your driver dedicated for the SDK and your following projects
so I will be extracting mine to C:\Ren’Py.

To do that first you will need to make the folders in the C:\ drive and come back to the panel showed
above and click the button with the three dots on the right side and select where you want the SDK to
be extracted. After you’ve done that press Extract and wait.

The menu that will be prompted after pressing Extract will disappear after it finished extracting so you
will go to the folder you selected for it to be extracted. For me it’s C:\Ren’Py\renpy-7.3.5-sdk.

Configuring The SDK

When you arrive there please launch Ren’Py. After launching Ren’Py you will be prompted with the
following panel.

In the Ren’Py launcher press preferences under Launch Project and the following panel will be available.
When you arrive to the panel showed above the Projects Directory might not be the same but what I did
there is that I created a folder inside my D:\Ren’Py directory named Projects (That will store all the
games that you want to work on/create/translate). So, you will need to create a Projects folder like I did
and after that get back to the Ren’Py launcher and select it.

After setting up the Projects Directory you will need to select a text editor so, you will need to press Not
Set under Text Editor: and select Atom or the Text editor you installed. After that the required plugins
for the text editor will be installed and then press Proceed and press Return on the left side to go back
to the main menu.

Now you will need to put a copy of the game you want to translate in the Projects folder as shown
below:

Inside the Projects folder

How to Generate Translations Files

After adding the Game in the Projects folder, you will need to go back to the launcher and press Refresh
near Projects, Select the game you want to translate and then press Generate Translations. The
following panel will be prompted:
You will need to put in the name of the language that you want to translate and press Generate
Translations. After Ren’Py generates the translation you will press continue and in the launcher page
press Open Project. That will open up the text editor with the folders of the game. The files you will
need to translate are in game/tl/language_name.

Here is what each file has translations for:

common.rpy: Game engine messages

options.rpy: Game options

screens.rpy: Menu messages

script.rpy: Story messages