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VN Revival

A localization workflow, tools, and publishing platform built for a team of game localizers.

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VN Revival desktop website in English, with its full navigation and wide game inventory previewDesktop website
This Is the Police — Spanish mobile catalog card
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog — Spanish mobile catalog card
Helltaker — Spanish mobile catalog card
No, I’m Not a Human — Spanish mobile catalog card
Mobile catalog · four games, one interface

A team of localizers wanted to offer free translations in languages publishers often overlook. Automating repetitive content work with AI agents sharply reduces costs and the grind that leads to burnout, giving people more time for decisions, creativity, and quality. We built a shared workflow, tools, and website for localizing many games.

50,000 words
in a game
1 week
including testing
≈ $25
per language

Team-reported figures for a 50,000-word game.

Our contribution

Four separate interface components: Spanish search filters, language selector, Spanish Helltaker card, and Spanish download controls.
Interface designA Steam-inspired design, built around a multilingual experience that feels native in every language.
The website connects to a shared server with admin tools, storage, backups, PostgreSQL, CMS, CLI, glossaries, screenshots, and SEO. Social media and translators connect through shared skills and AI agents.
Backend developmentA shared server, glossaries, tools, and documented skills let translators rotate in and out while keeping work moving. The team can localize several projects at once, choose its AI provider, and use subscription-based coding agents instead of API access.
SuperServer allocation: 1 CPU core, 8192 MB memory, 80 GB storage, and 4096 GB traffic.
Self-managed hostingA modest server is enough for self-hosting. Screenshots and localization files average just 100–200 MB per game: even at 200 MB each, it takes 50 localized games to use 10 GB.
English audit composite: performance scores of 100 on desktop and 92 on mobile. Both show 100 for accessibility, best practices, and SEO, plus 3/3 for agentic browsing.
Early SEO setupPerformance was optimized so loading speed does not get in the way of promotion. The supplied audits show 100 on desktop and 92 on mobile, with SEO at 100 on both.
Traffic overview for the last 30 days: 66.16k pageviews, 63.05k total visits, and a pageviews-over-time chart.
Bot protectionThe site attracted heavy bot traffic from day one, so we configured bot protection.

Publishing tools

Add games, upload releases, update screenshots, and prepare SEO and social posts. Admin and CLI operations connect publishing to the localization workflow.

VN Revival admin: game catalog. Manage games, publication status, and estimated costs in one catalog.
Game catalogManage games, publication status, and estimated costs in one catalog.
VN Revival admin: game editor. One shared publishing structure for every game.
Game editorOne shared publishing structure for every game.
VN Revival admin: media. Manage catalog imagery and separate desktop and mobile covers.
MediaManage catalog imagery and separate desktop and mobile covers.
VN Revival admin: glossary. Keep terminology consistent with a shared game glossary.
GlossaryKeep terminology consistent with a shared game glossary.
VN Revival admin: releases. Publish multilingual releases for Windows and macOS.
ReleasesPublish multilingual releases for Windows and macOS.
VN Revival admin: content audit. Find missing content across games and languages.
Content auditFind missing content across games and languages.
VN Revival admin: model usage. Track model usage and estimated costs by production stage.
Model usageTrack model usage and estimated costs by production stage.
VN Revival admin: announcements. Prepare localized announcements for gaming communities.
AnnouncementsPrepare localized announcements for gaming communities.

Content management with AI agents

The admin panel is useful, but repeating the same updates across games and languages gets tedious. AI coding agents with terminal access can handle routine content operations through the project CLI.

Agent prepares a Frostpunk 2 game-card draft.
Game detailsAgent prepares a Frostpunk 2 game-card draft.
Agent reports missing content across games.
Content checksAgent reports missing content across games.

One workflow.
Many games.

  1. Extract assets

    Text & images

    AI only

  2. Prepare

    Glossary & resources

    Human + AI

  3. Translate

    Translation & editing

    AI only

  4. Test

    Text & game UI

    Human + AI

  5. Package

    Windows & macOS

    AI only

  6. Publish

    Catalog & updates

    AI only

Example: FTL: Faster Than Light

A text-heavy space roguelike with 80,331 words. The task: translate it into 30 languages in one week. AI token costs totaled $54.

Agent conversation about FTL text inventory and texture scope.
01 · Extract assetsText inventory and texture scope.

Note: Asset extraction revealed a wordplay trap: ABADOTH is the correct password; ABATODH is a misleading alternative. AI can flag such anomalies, but a complete list from the game’s creator is more reliable. When that is unavailable, we investigate the assets ourselves to find as many as possible.

Glossary screenshot with the Rockman row highlighted beside a Russian fan-wiki article titled Валуны (Rockmen).
02 · Glossary review — Human + AIThe AI proposed «Рок». The Russian fan wiki documents «Валуны», the name players already use. Human review preserves that community terminology.
Codex workflow showing 30 FTL localization processes with progress percentages.
03 · Translate — AI onlyThe most time-consuming and costly stage: 1–2 days, carried out entirely by AI.
Hebrew FTL screens showing the hangar, an encounter, and enlarged interface details.
04 · Draft testing — Human + AIA player records 30 minutes of gameplay and saves at key screens. AI turns the recording into repeatable actions, captures 10–15 screens per language, and checks 300–500 images for clipping, overflow, broken glyphs, and right-to-left rendering issues.
FTL localization installer with Spanish selected.
05 · Package — AI onlyOnce testing is complete, AI builds installers for macOS and Windows that add the selected language to the game. We upload and host these installers on the website for players to download.
Three numbered FTL screens: 1 Admin, 2 Catalog, 3 Announcements.
06 · Publish — Human + AIOnce the localization is ready, we enable “Visible on site” and publish the game to the catalog. AI automatically prepares localized announcements and adds SEO markup to the game page.

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