Hello! This is GM Lars, a member of the Archbears global team.

Black Survival is currently available in 14 languages (including Korean, our native language). That’s a lot for a game from a small studio like us! This was all possible because of our volunteer translators. We are always seeking passionate fans of Black Survival who wish to bring the game to their language. To this effort more than 300 fans have joined us. Currently, we want to take this project to a next level.

If you are interested in translating Black Survival from English to your native language, please join us! As a thank-you gift, we promise an increasing amount of goodies!

The English and Japanese translation of Black Survival is done by our professional translators in-house and the Simplified Chinese translation is the combined work of our fans and our publishing partner. Other languages are translated entirely by our fans. However, this is not to say that translating Black Survival is an amateur effort. Many of our fan translators are also professional translators and others find the project to be a stepping stone toward becoming professional translators themselves.

Do you enjoy Black Survival? Do you have a talent for languages? Most importantly, do you want more people to play Black Survival? If so, don’t hesitate and join us!

Current Status of the Project

Black Survival is available in the following languages: Korean, English, Japanese, Thai, Spanish, Vietnamese, Russian, Indonesian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, Portuguese, and German. Many of these languages are nearing completion, but still require maintenance translation. Black Survival updates its content on a monthly basis and new text need to be translated in time.

Beyond those already in beta service, we have also Turkish, Polish, and Tagalog projects. They have not reached a point where Black Survival can be played in those languages, but we would love to get there! Fan translators have also volunteered to start the translation of Black Survival to Malay and Czech, given that there will be enough translators. These languages need to be translated for game service. With effort and your contribution, Black Survival may become available on those languages.

What We Would Like to Ask From You

We seek passionate fans of Black Survival who are willing to put in the time and effort to translate Black Survival to your native language. Especially, we seek translators who wish to participate in an open and vibrant environment, where we can easily discuss translation options and develop better solutions.

We do not ask for much effort from you. As long as you can say you have put in 3 hours of work into translating Black Survival, we promise you a gift.

However, there are things we would like to ask you not to do. First, you must be able to cooperate with veteran translators and continue the open and vibrant environment of our project. Second, you must be sincere in your effort (signs of Google Translate are really easy to pick up for experienced translators like us!). Last, you must be able to commit some time to the project on a continuous basis. Simply letting us know about your progress or even daily life is meaningful.

If you are not able to respect above requests, we sadly have to reserve the right to deny your participation. However, over the last half a year, we never had to do that so far. That’s a good sign.

What We Would Like to Offer You

Archbears are always thankful for our fan translators’ effort. Without them, Black Survival would not have grown so much. There really is no way to thank all of them (and maybe you!) appropriately, but we sure can try. We would like to offer these to volunteer translators:

You will leave your mark on Black Survival’s history. If you want, your name will be listed in the game credits page. Show your name in the game to family and friends! Or perhaps a potential boss for the translation job you want! You will receive a one-time gift of 2,000 Gems once you have contributed more than 3 hours for a major patch cycle (about a month long). You will receive an increasing amount of Bear Points, starting at 5,000 BP and going up in steps of 1,000. After 10 months of continuous contributions, you will receive 15,000 BP every month!

For these, you need to be able to say you have contributed more than 3 hours per each major patch cycle. We operate on an honor system.

How We Do This

The actual translation work happens via Google Sheets. We maintain big spreadsheets where we can refer to other languages’ progress together. If you are not able to access Google Drive easily, then you may have difficulty participating in the project.

Communication, discussion, opinion-polling, etc., happen via a Discord server. It is a rowdy place, where we primarily talk about translating the game but also about a potential muscular skin for Arda (named Harda).

We hop between these two platforms frequently. Many fan translators work from their smartphones, but a PC environment is most ideal.

Recruitment

If you have read this much and you are interested in joining us, please do so! Most languages that Black Survival is available in would welcome more translators, but we would be thrilled to invite translators for the following languages:

Polish

Turkish

Malay

Czech

Tagalog

Traditional Chinese

German

French

Italian

The following languages are either handled by dedicated professionals or fully systematized by experienced translators and do not require more translators:

Korean

English

Japanese

Simplified Chinese

Thai

Regardless of the language you are volunteering for, please show us your interest via this Google Survey. => [LINK]

Thank you.