Unknown Horizons is now nearing it's next snapshot release 2009.1. As part of the new stuff we just merged the reworked UI into our trunk development tree.

With this merge comes quite a load of changed and new strings ready for translation. Preparations to integrate these translations are now finished and the strings are not expected to change (much) before the release so we need you to update our existing translations or add your native tongue we don't support yet.

For coordination it would be great if you could tell us when you are working on a translation using either our Forum or alternatively visiting us on IRC.

If you are interested in helping to make the new Unknown Horizons snapshot available in your language it's time to check out the Translator's Guide and coordinate the translations.

While most graphical focus was on finishing the new GUI, we would like to thank the Widelands Project for their great animal graphics which are really good-looking and a great step in the direction of a truly free game.

If you are interested to see Unknown Horizons appear in any of the great Linux distributions out there however, we still need your help! The graphics of our inhabitants as well as most of our sound samples are not free (as in free software or free speech, they are free as in royalty free).

So if you are not a great blender artist and don't want to provide a language, is there nothing you can do? Well obviously as a free software project, we are still searching for motivated people. There are lots of topics you can help.

The most fun way to help is playing the game and providing feedback as well as reporting all the bugs you stumble upon. We need guys to help writing the documentation, writing code, creating graphics, sounds.

Regards
Christoph