Ziggurat Zagger
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Joined: Friday, 17th December 2010, 18:17
DCSS Text Improvement Taskforce
The aim of the DCSS Text Improvement Taskforce is to give every object in the game
- a name
a full description
- a quotation
- reform and standardise terminology and spelling
improve clarity and usefulness of all text
make the game text more interesting and fun to read
Non-native speakers of English are very welcome. I have experience editing foreign English so if your pig is cute enough, I can slap some lipstick on it.
Non-native speakers can be especially helpful in finding quotations from non-Anglophone literatures.
To participate in this project, read the instructions at http://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/blobs/ ... lation.txt
Text submission guidelines are here.
Ask any questions in this thread.
obsolete information:The plan has three phases:
PHASE 1: Build a spreadsheet of all items in Crawl with their requirements for new text marked. You can help with this by opening the spreadsheet during your next game of Crawl and adding entries as you play. If there is a faster way to build this database, I’d like to know.
PHASE 2: Review all currently existing text. Revise as necessary. Write new text.
PHASE 3: Review all new and old text; submit to devs for final approval.
The spreadsheet is here. It is open to editing by all. If you have proper spreadsheet skills please fix it as you see fit.
If enough people participate it would be good to finish the bulk of the work in time for .10.
Reason: updated project information