Ren’Py Translation TutorialIntroductionHi, 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.

RequirementsFirst 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 SDKIf 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 SDKWhen 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