World of Goo Becoming Worldlier

The last of goo balls didn’t seem to know that the fantastic World of Goo… has just learned to speak a few new languages!

World of Goo has been officially upgraded to include brand-new translations in Russian, Simplified Chinese, and — for the first time ever — Ukrainian! All thanks to the tireless (and possibly goo-covered) efforts of our excellent translation community.

Translating a deeply American-centric game like World of Goo is no easy feat. How does one take all the internet puns, double-meaning jokes, and corporate-speak nonsense and have it make sense in another language? What does YAMAKO mean in Chinese? How can we know?

Luckily, our friends on the World of Goo 2 Russian Translation Team have written a wonderful guest post about their process and all the work that occurred behind the scenes, which you can read about here:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/22000/discussions/0/682986025703903084/