Un mondo di avventure - Gioco di ruolo

What is this?

It's my own translation of Adventures from Another Worlds, the game I picked for the LocJAM RPG contest of 2021.

It took me about 5 days-person in total, between my translation, Lorenzo's translation, my revision (carried with an eye on the very solid Spanish version of FAE) and the final redesign/tweaking. Taxing but feasible within 72 hours.

To make this fun, I chose to make it a bookworm adaptation, with literary classics (Pinocchio, Jules Verne, King Arthur) instead of movies/cartoon reference.

Aren't you cheating a bit here?

Of course I am, that's why it's not rated and just got added later on as an example.

Why did you do this?

Because it's fun, but also for a few rational reasons.

• Giving a good deep look at the text and its challenges.
• Trying Omega-T
• Preparing the base material for Fabio's revision stream
• Playing with the design while I waited for jam support

Conclusions

• Public domain repositories like digitalcomicmuseum.com, oldbookillustrations.com and reusableart.com are an amazing way to get around the lack of artistic talent
• Ditto with bulma.io for web design
• Streaming is a performance. While it might look like Fabio  was merely revising on camera, it was more like a real-time documentary, distilling concepts and discussing them with the audience. Very hard work, but fascinating
• Even little things like making a few example characters feminine can make the text more inclusive with little effort
• Re-theming is a bit of a gimmick, and sometimes goes against the accuracy of the content (Flashy>Rocambolesco ["Swashbuckling"]), but I think it's needed to stand out in a jam. It's also great fun.