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I'll get to work to better adapt the Spanish version

Thanks for your addition.

I will gladly use your localization (you should have been able to use a "lang_es.txt", modify the "res/language_flags.xml" to contain the flag of your choice too.
After this you just start the game, and voila... it should list your language in the language dialogue (just tested, works fine).

I use the flags from "iso-country-flags". When building the pngs of their SVG files they will be located in:
/build/png-country-squared-fancy/res-32x32/

But for now I will add all possible flags to /res/gfx/gui/flags/currently_unusded" (adding 350kb to the download... but eases adding process).

Nonetheless:
- your "lang_en.txt" contains some English phrases: were you not able to translate them (need help "interpreting" them ?). Examples: some roomnames
- some phrases are auto-translated - like "genre_feature" or "hosts". the first was talking about "documentation like films" - or "journalistic work/investigative documentation" - "Reportage" in German. The second one, hosts, was talking about the person presenting a show, talking through the microphone to the guests).

As there are some things untranslated, or "wrong", I kindly ask you for your help: list things you do not know how to translate.

Ok, so what did I do now? I added your language file to the official game, added the flag ... and yes, it is working.

Regarding the database: think your split into "ads_low.xml" "ads_mid.xml" is interesting - hopefully we get an editor sooner or later assisting this work.

You asked me to add the support for "<es>" - it is already in! But as you did not add the language (lang_es.txt) it was ignored if you had them in.

So after having "lang_es.txt" you should be able to write

<programme id="54084557-4497-48d5-8e3a-6a6c987ebb26" product="1" type="1" tmdb_id="0" imdb_id="" rt_id="0" creator="">
			<title>
				<de>11 Donkeys</de>
				<en>11 Donkeys</en>
				<es>12 Monos</es>
			</title>
			<description>
				<de>[1|Full] als potentieller Weltretter, der in die Vergangenheit geschickt wird, um die Apokalypse aufzuhalten.</de>
				<es>Año 2035. Tras la epidemia provocada por un virus asesino que ha matado a millones de personas, los supervivientes se refugian en comunidades subterráneas, húmedas y frías. El prisionero James Cole se ofrece como voluntario para viajar al pasado y conseguir una muestra del virus</es>
			</description>

...

PS: to translate content without loosing it via an update, you always are able to "append" data via a new "zz_localization_es.xml" (zz because it is then at the end of an alphabetical sorted xml-list).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<tvgdb>
	<version value="3" />
	<allprogrammes>
		<programme id="54084557-4497-48d5-8e3a-6a6c987ebb26" product="1" type="1" tmdb_id="0" imdb_id="" rt_id="0" creator="">
			<title>
				<es>12 Monos</es>
			</title>
		</programme>
	</allprogrammes>
</tvgdb>

-> would append the Spanish title to the entry with the given id ("11 donkeys")

What to do now?
Download: https://github.com/GWRon/TVTower/blob/master/res/gfx/gui/flags/es.png
place it into gamedir/res/gfx/gui/flags

Rename your gamedir/res/lang/lang_en.txt to gamedir/res/lang/lang_es.txt (same language-abbreviation like the flag!)

Should be done now.

(There is already https://github.com/GWRon/TVTower/blob/master/res/lang/lang_es.txt - but this contains some changes not used in the "20150422"-release, so just keep your file until the new release is coming).

Regarding images, music, ...
- images and music must be "public domain" or made by one who could give us the licence to open-sourcely-distribute them

- do not distribute the game with "original mad tv music" - albeit it is very good music, we do not know if we would be allowed to do so. Means: you can use whatever music you want in your game (you could even create playlists so the "TVTower"-music and yours are playing randomly).

- interface: nice that someone is playing around with our images.

Keep up translating ... think this is a big help in promoting TVTower around the world (think I already found TVTower on a Brazilian download page :-) ).

bye
Ron