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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#645: Languages

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Game Design, Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Mtg, Leisure, Magic The Gathering, Ccg, Games, Mark Rosewater

4.7802 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Magic is printed in eleven languages. In this podcast, I talk about how that came to be and how making a game printed in so many languages impacts game design.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling out of the parking lot. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work.

0:06.2

And I had a mail package to my daughter at college. Okay. So today's topic was something recommended for my blog.

0:13.0

I'm going to talk about the languages of magic. So magic is printed in many different languages.

0:19.6

And I'm going to talk all about it.

0:21.5

Now, the interesting challenge of today's podcast is, well, I definitely know more than most of you know about us printing in other languages.

0:28.1

It is not my area of expertise, so we're going to see if I can get a whole podcast out of that.

0:31.9

I think I can.

0:33.3

But we'll see.

0:34.9

Obviously, if you guys are hearing this, then I did.

0:36.8

But so whenever I attempt this, I don't know whether it'll fail or not.

0:41.6

But if you guys are hearing it, it means I didn't fail.

0:43.5

So hopefully you're hearing this because I would like to have this.

0:46.5

It's a good topic.

0:47.6

Okay, so let's start with a trivia question, which is,

0:50.6

how many languages is Magic the gathering printed in currently?

0:57.0

And the answer, I'll give you a second to answer.

0:59.5

Okay, the answer is 11.

1:02.0

11 languages.

1:03.6

Can you name all 11 languages?

1:05.1

Well, I will.

1:06.3

Obviously, it's printed in English, that's the easy one.

1:08.8

It's printed in Chinese, but two different versions of Chinese.

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