New language, faster loading


After some hiccups, the separate language loading now works as intended, which means the main game download is much faster (should take about half the time), and then you only get the languages you want to use. And English, because that's the default and it gets downloaded anyway when you start. And probably your last used language as well.

Of course, this comes at a (small, hopefully) price: when you select a new language, there's going to be a small wait before you can use it, since it needs to be downloaded and installed. In my tests it should be a matter of seconds, but it very much depends on your connection and itch.io's, so I make no promises.

The reason why I did this is that it's now somewhat easier for me to add new languages and it's definitely less annoying for you because you don't really have to waste bandwidth on Klingon* and Latin** if you don't use them. The first language to benefit from the new setup is Swedish, thanks to https://desolationpark.se/ who requested it and assisted with it; I'm absolutely open to suggestions and requests for new languages, of course.

A final note: it has been brought to my attention that most dictionaries contain slurs (possibly even very ugly ones). At the moment, the possibility for abuse seems very small since nobody but you can see the words you find (they're not included in the Replay Key) but I'm keeping that in mind and I'm open to requests for removal of egregiously offensive ones - just get in touch (privately, not via comments). I'm also open to adding words, by the way.

* probably not gonna happen
** probably not gonna happen either but I'll make an exception if it turns out the Pope himself is a player

Files

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