Bonus anecdote: Because we needed some loading screen hints that you could cycle through, I added some platypus facts to the array of texts. In honor of that era, there still remains at least one platypus fact in the list of loading screen hints.

I miss working on that title...

... arrived from the studio, people were asking "what are these texts?" and I was like "I've put them there, no-one changed them". But we realized that the French had their own version of the saying, so we kept them: "Une pomme chaque matin éloigne le médecin!"

... for the unit selection 3 years later, I used the descriptions from the config, thinking some designer had set useful values there. But no-one did. For the medical department I put the good 'ol "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" as placeholder description. When the French localization...

I can't answer that question, but I can tell you an anecdote about some French localization shenanigans that happened on a game I worked on: Waaaay back in 2019, I created some config for the in-game departments. And that somehow flew completely under the radar. When I created the UI...

Danke, das hatte ich erwartet. Aber den jeweiligen Anteil der einzelnen Konsolen habt ihr vermutlich nicht, oder?

Habt ihr 'nen Breakdown für die Konsolen? Weil mich schon interessieren würde, ob das jetzt Switch, PS oder Xbox (oder was anderes, who knows) ist.

Also, maybe don't submit the folders ending with "_BurstDebugInformation_DoNotShip" and "_BackUpThisFolder_ButDontShipItWithYourGame" to Steam...

Overall really worth a watch and I'm sad that I did not see it on the silver screen, but on the other hand I really wanted to hear the OV and that is hard to get with "kids movies" in Germany.

Which does not (I repeat: Not!) make her or the others bad characters. They just felt a little underdeveloped and I'd hoped the story could evolve them a little more. Also, we got a no-villain story again. The influence of the bad guys in this movie was as much as the decapod in the first movie.

My main criticism of the crew is that all three feel very stale despite having so much screen time. I would've hoped they all have more than one character trait and while I loooove me some engineer girls, her "I'm quirky, unpredictable and speak double time" personality feels bland next to Moana.

If you want to know where our modern media pirate trope comes from, look no further than Treasure Island by R. L. Stevenson. It has it all: Singing pirate crews, buried treasures, wooden legs, talking parrots, eye-patches, morally gray opportunistic pirates, obscure treasure maps, the "black spot".

Reading/watching/playing trope codifiers (tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...) is incredibly valuable in my opinion. It really helps to get a feel for _why_ things are how they are in media. This one is for vampires and vampire hunters.

Also, I cannot stress that enough, but if you haven't: Read Bram Stoker's Dracula. It holds up incredibly well and is public domain, so you can grab yourself an e-book on Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/345) and then buy a beautiful physical edition afterwards if you like it.

The space garden game is still a thing, but it's more of a longterm project. I did not forget it and I only have to play one of the games that inspired it and I immediately know, why I want to have a game like that in the first place.