🌍 Multi-language support is here

DG ChatGames v2.0 adds full translation infrastructure. Set language: <code> in config.yml and the entire plugin - broadcasts, GUI, commands, trivia, riddles, capitals, all game content - speaks that language.

✦ Available languages

• English (en) · Baseline, fully translated
• Romanian (ro) · Fully translated, native review
• Spanish (es) · Fully translated
• Italian (it) · Fully translated
• Polish (pl) · Skeleton - falls back to English, community contributions welcome
• German (de) · Skeleton - falls back to English, community contributions welcome
• French (fr) · Skeleton - falls back to English, community contributions welcome

Custom language? Drop your own lang/xx.yml in the plugin folder and set language: xx - the plugin picks it up automatically.

✦ What's translated

Everything visible to players:

• All broadcasts, GUI titles, command output, help menus
• Game names (Trivia · Curiozități · Curiosità)
• Game prompts ("Solve » 12+5" · "Rezolvă » 12+5" · "Risolvi » 12+5")
• Full content per language: 80 trivia, 80 riddles, 80 capitals, 80 colors, 80 emoji puzzles, anagrams, sentences - written natively per language, not auto-translated
• Country names and capitals follow language convention (Bucharest → Bucuresti (ro) / Bucarest (es,it))

✦ New command

/cg lang              Show current language and available codes
/cg lang reload       Reload language file (faster than /cg reload)
/cg lang <code>       Switch language and persist to config.yml

✦ Configuration

language: en   # en, ro, es, it, pl, de, fr - or your custom code

Missing keys in any non-English file automatically fall back to English, so partial translations are safe.

✦ Migration

Breaking change: game content (words, trivia, capitals, etc.) has moved from games.yml to lang/<code>.yml. Existing games.yml still works for behavior settings (timeout, rewards, weight) and now overrides language content if you keep custom lists there.

Upgrade steps:

1. Stop your server
2. Replace the jar with v2.0
3. Delete messages.yml (its content is now in lang/en.yml)
4. Start the server - language files are extracted automatically
5. Optionally set language: ro (or any code) in config.yml

✦ Want to contribute a translation?

Polish, German, and French ship as skeletons - community contributions are very welcome. Join the Discord and share your translated xx.yml file. Contributors get credit in the next release.