Don't Eat Soap! - Hamster Republic

I am pleased to announce that my game Don't Eat Soap has been approved for the OUYA store!

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Please give it a try, and let me know how it goes! Be sure to try two-player mode, if you have access to a second controller and a friend :)

Always loved Bubble Bobble. Anything that captures that spirit is cool in my book. I'll have to check this out next time I'm on the system.

Nice game! Just could do with some insanely catchy music (like bubble bobble). Plays well and I like the humour.

Thanks!

I am happy with the existing music, althoug maybe the music volume is too low in relationship to the sound effects?

Also, if anybody has a chance to test with a PS3 or XB360 controller, please let me know if it works. I *think* they ought to be supported, but I don't have them to test with.

Loving this game :) and PS3 controller works great ;)

Thanks, Jakenut86! I am glad the PS3 controller works. Anybody had a chance to test with an XB360 controller yet?

Just downloaded this earlier today- great fun, though the music could be better.:biggrin-new:

Last week I began work on creating 不要吃肥皂 , a Chinese translated version of Don't Eat soap.

http://i.imgur.com/PT8OfCN.png http://i.imgur.com/JconSQy.png https://i.imgur.com/aCuXkli.png https://i.imgur.com/ylO3388.png

My game engine has zero support for multi-language, and zero support for unicode strings, however, there is so little text in the game, that I decided it was realistic for me to just replace all the display text with sprites.

I don't speak a single word of Mandarin, so I started with google translate, and I am going to have to trust to the help of other proofreaders to help me fix any mistakes.

This will not be a separate mode in the existing apk, I am implementing the translation in a new separate copy of the apk.

One thing that is going to be really difficult is the high-scores table. How am I going to allow players to enter their names into the high scores? I can't use real unicode strings, so how do I do it? I would love to know how existing Chinese arcade games handle high scores lists-- especially old arcade cabinets. Does anybody know? Do we have any ouyaforum regulars who live in China?

My workaround for now is to use unaccented pinyin, but I don't yet know if that will satisfy OUYA or not.
http://i.imgur.com/15dzAjP.png

Hmm... not sure on that, as Unaccented Pinyin doesn't necessarily work in general. Because Chinese is so tone-sensitive saying something like sisisisi doesn't really work, as 'si' can mean 4 different things (2 most notably being '4' and 'death'). You might be able to get by with si1si2si4 however..

Maybe I can cram all the pinyin accents into my ascii font, if I keep it all uppercase. Still I am not going to pursue it any further until I know if OUYA will accept pinyin at all, or if I need to find a pure Simplified Chinese solution.

不要吃肥皂 is now ready for testing!

It is now 100% translated (but still 0% proofread)

I plan to just release the Chinese version on Xiaomi, but if anybody wants to sideload it on their OUYA, here it is: http://hamsterrepublic.com/tmp/eatso...ase-signed.apk

I have made contact with a few people from OUYA who are going to help me with the Xiaomi submission process, but we are only just getting started.

That's cool, bob. Congratulations on getting the hard part done.

Yay! More people can enjoy the game now!