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"Guess It! in your own language" tutorial

"Guess It! in your own language" tutorial

The purpose of this tutorial is to show you how to change "Guess It!" default language (which is English) to your preferred language. Note that you are changing the dictionaries and the words to guess and not the interface, which remains in English.

Step one :

Install Guess It! and copy the folder "BreedSoftware GuessIt" from the location where you installed your game to your PC.

Step two :

Notice the folder "data". This is the folder where all words, dictionaries etc.. are stored.

Open the folder "data". It should contain 15 files. All of these files are plain text files (so, you can open them with Note Pad or any other text editor), and all of these files are to be modified !

Step three :

Notice how the files are named :

x.git

medx.git

fullx.git

where x is a number from 5 to 9.

All files contain one uppercase word per line. No special characters are allowed (so "é","è" should be replaced by "e")

* "fullx.git" contains an exhaustive list of alphabet-ordered x-letter words. Ex : full7.git contains all seven-letter words, alphabet-ordered.

* "x.git" contains a list of some easy (first-level vocabulary) x-letter words, not necessarily alphabet-ordered. The larger the list the better. I recommend about 100-200 words.

* "medx.git" contains a list of some medium (second-level vocabulary) x-letter words, not necessarily alphabet-ordered. The larger the list the better. I recommend about 200-400 words (this list ought to be larger than the previous one, about the double)

Step four :

Modify the files accordingly.

4.1) Modifying "fullx.git" (How to find that exhaustive list of words having a certain number of letters ?)

4.1.1) Look on the net for a complete list of all words in a certain language.

I have such a list for French, Spanish, German and Italian. Just download the "Scriptomania 2.7 language pack (French, German, Italian, Spanish)" from http://www.breedsoftware.com/download.php (these are in fact spell-check dictionaries for my PHP editor Scriptomania, but you can use them if you wish).

4.1.2) Extract all 5-letter words from that list and save that list as full5.git

Extract all 6-letter words from that list and save that list as full6.git

Do the same with 7, 8 and 9-letter words.

I know this isn't easy ! I wrote a small program for that extraction procedure but I lost it ! If I have time, I may rewrite it and post it here.

4.1.3) Look for all special characters and replace them. This is easily done using NotePad "Replace All" function. Replace all "é" with "e", etc...

4.2) Modifying "x.git"

It is very easy, simply think of the easiest words in your language (you'll need 100-200 of them) and write them uppercase, one word per line. No order is needed.

4.3) Modifying "medx.git"

As above, think of a bit harder words in your language (you'll need about the double of the previous list) and write them uppercase, one word per line. Do not copy the contents of x.git into medx.git !

Step five :

Compress the data folder to a zip or rar archive and kindly post it on the forums so that everyone can benefit :)