Hey all, I just sent my GOG contacts the latest version of the game.

Here's what's new, with a full changelog at the bottom:

-In-game achievement interface for both mac/windows builds.
-Lots of bug-fixes in general
-Lots of bug-fixes for mod support
-Added localization interface. Fans can now supply their own translations. About 95% of the text is currently exposed to localization, we're working on this and the next patch should have full support.
-We've got an official German translation, as well as volunteer Czech, Polish, Portuguese, and Koregan translations, in the works. None of these are ready yet so the the public 1.0.64 build only has English, though we're making good progress.

This build has been tested and seems to be working properly, I've double-checked that the default config settings will be opting out of data tracking if no config file is found (ie first install) and the auto-updater, as usual, just directs to the GOG page. If anyone sees anything contrary to this, please notify me immediately so I can fix it. If you find you are opted in to data tracking it might be because you're carrying over an old config file from before we explicitly made things opt-out. Sorry about this.

I don't have an update for the browser demo, but that's lower priority I expect and I'll get to it in the following weeks.

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1.0.64 changelog since last public GOG release (1.0.52?)
-Fixed mod support bug: battles were not properly looking for mod data when loading
-Fixed mod support bug: overworld pearl array was not clearing correctly when loading a mod, leading to a crash
-Fixed mod support bug: targeting icons were not showing up in battle when a mod was active
-More Minor bugfixes to mod support
-Fixed various broken achievements
-Added localization menu
-Data now Localizable:
--Bonus challenge titles
--Defender skill names
--Enemy names, descriptions
--Item names, descriptions
--Journal data
--Cutscene data
--Flavor/Status names
--"System" text
----Title screen text
----Options menu & sub-menus
----"Like us" menu
----Status/flavor descriptions
----Stat names & descriptions
----Strong (resist/evade) descriptions
----Skill tree UI descriptions
----Targeting descriptions
----Battle difficulty tooltips
----Miscellaneous words (scrap, cost, defender, etc)
-Fixed Shock lightning eternal stun bug
-Fixed incorrect battle preview stats
-Fixed crash bug when trying to open a battle preview - related to untranslated strings
-Both sheep achievements confirmed working
-Fixed "casual mode screws battle preview tooltips forever" bug
-Fixed bug where battle preview scroll wouldn't center properly on "the way out" and "following zelemir" battles
-Fixed "create legal terrain by exploding crystals" bug
-Spell info no longer shows up for non-learned spells
-More game text is now localizable
-Started adding per-locale UI tweaks/offsets, using to keep german text from overflowing buttons & UI
-Loading a locale that is missing files will no longer crash, and will display a warning indicating which files are missing (also substitutes missing files with english version)
-Game now checks locales against the default locale (en-US) to see if any strings haven't been translated. If so, it will give you a warning indicating which ones are missing, to aid the translator.
-Fixed keymapping freeze glitch related to Numeric "+" button
-Fixed "Charalatan's Staff" save import glitch
-Fixed bug with Slak's name in NG+ reverting to default
-Fixed bug with localization safety check giving wrong numbers
-Exposed Party Screen strings to localization
-Exposed Overworld strings to localization
-Exposed Achievement data and Achievement UI strings to localization
-Exposed Video UI strings to localization
-Exposed Defender Menu (battle) strings to localization
-Exposed Save Menu strings to localization
-Exposed Town Menu strings to localization
-Exposed Recruit Menu strings to localization
-Exposed "You Got" UI strings to localization
-Exposed Mod UI strings to localization
-Exposed Mod, Config, and Language button strings to localization
-Locale automatic "safety check" now tells you not only how many strings are missing, but which files they are missing from
-Started to add korean character text support, got overwhelmed/terrified, will do that later
-Steam achievements work on Mac!
-Added some comments to localization files
-Fixed "healer won't attack in heal mode" bug
-Fixed "disappearing APC's" bug
-Fixed localization bug with redirects (use <RE> invocation now before each redirect string)
-Switched localization newline syntax from $N to <N>
-Fixed bug with healer logic where "HEAL" targeting won't save
-Fixed several crash bugs with in-battle dialogue (recently introduced)
-Fixed various minor typos here and there
-Fixed journal localization bug with localization redirects
-Fixed bug where Healer HEAL logic not sticking on target saving
-Fixed bug where show-dialogue setting wouldn't stick

Yaaay, thanks for update! :)

I've got the question about these new "translator-option" - how does it looks like in case of some specific letters? In Poland we've some specific letters, like "ę", "ć" etc. Will there be possibility to use these letters? Defender's Quest is too good game to not be translated and I would like to try (as soon as GOG will upload the new version for users).

I have specifically added support for those letters. Make sure you set the text-encoding scheme for your localization files as UTF-8 and you should be fine.

As of right now, we have support for all "extended latin" character sets which should cover pretty much anything that uses a Roman or Roman-ish alphabet, I've also explicitly added support for Cyrillic (Russian/Ukrainian/) letters.

The central European characters seem to work - specifically those used in Polish and Czech. I haven't tested Cyrillic but it probably works in theory.

In the next patch I will try to add asian character support but that might be kind of insane.

Also you should check out this thread on our official forums:
http://www.defendersquest.com/theforum/viewtopic.php?f=14&amp;t=1234

We have several people specifically interested in Polish so you might want to coordinate your efforts with them :)

Sounds great :) Firstly, I would like to try to translate a small portion of text (for example from two or three levels) to know, if I would handle this. If my "private trial" will end with success, I will contact with another DQ-fans from Poland, who would like to translate this game :)

Oh, c'mon GOG, upload this for us, c'mon, c'mon! :)

Cool, I wish you the best of luck! Either way you should read up on the forum thread, there's some useful instructions in there :)

Houston, we've got problem :P

I've read the thread from your link, but I still don't know, what I'm doing wrong. What I made:

1.In folder "locales" I've created the folder "pl-PL". I've copied everything from "en-US" and pasted it into the "pl-PL".
2.I don't know excactly, what should I change in "index.xml". I'm editing it with notepad. I see that there is some part especially for polish localisation:

</locale>-->
<!--<locale id="pl-PL" sort="8"> <!--Polski-->
<ui language="Język" region="Region" accept="Akceptować"/>
<label id="en-US,en-GB,en-CA" language="Polish" region="Poland"/>
<label id="de-DE,fr-FR,nb-NO,es-ES,cs-CZ,pl-PL" language="Polski" region="Polska"/>
</locale>

Should I copy it and paste to this place at the beggining, in the place where is this line? :
"<!--Add locale entries here. "

Should I "replace" the sort number (for Poland set it for "1" and for GB set it on "8")? Whatever I am making, the game doesn't show me the new "language" option, or it just doesn't loading (there is only the black screen and "loading" title, but nothing more). I see that there is already the polish flag in the "_flags" folder. What Am I doing wrong?

Check your PM ;)

Thanks Ghorpm, now it is working :) Just one small problem more and everything will be fine (I've sended private message to you, thanks in advance for reading!)