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German Language Files

By Cebbilefant

Hallo! Learn how to play Word Play in German, create the language files and make basic adjustments.

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Guide Index

Overview

Create the Word List / Dictionary

Create the Letter Bag

Troubleshooting

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Create the Word List / Dictionary

Download a word list, for example from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/enz/german-wordlist/refs/heads/main/words
If it's not UPPERCASE, open it in Notepad++, select all (Ctrl+A), right click, "UPPERCASE". Now it's uppercase, which is what we need.
ß / SS
- Use Search and Replace to turn all uppercase ẞ into SS.
- Alternatively, if you want to use ß: The game does not seem to support typing uppercase ẞ, nor comparing lower case inputs to an uppercase ẞ in the dictionary. So, you will need lowercase ß both in the dictionary and in the letter bag. Use Search and Replace to find any uppercase ẞ in the dictionary and convert them into a lowercase ß. Keep in mind that you have to add ß to the letter bag later.
Save the dictionary in the game files as customdictionary.txt. The folder should be here:
Mac: Users/YourUserName/Library/Application Support/com.GMTK.WordPlay
PC: YourUserName/AppData/LocalLow/Game Maker's Toolkit/Word Play
Steam Deck: Home > "Show hidden files" > .local > share > Steam > SteamApps > compatdata > 3586660 > pfx > drive_C > steamuser > AppData > LocalLow > Game Maker's Toolkit > Word Play (thanks, Jackl., for the path)

Create the Letter Bag

I found a list inspired by another popular word game. You can copy this and save it as customletterbag.txt in the game files:

A0105 Ä0601 B0302 C0402 D0104 E0115 F0402 G0302 H0204 I0106 J0601 K0403 L0203 M0304 N0109 O0203 Ö0801 P0401 Q0101 R0106 S0107 T0106 U0106 Ü0601 V0601 W0301 X0801 Y1001 Z0301

And if you use ß instead of ss, add ß0402 on a new line (adjust for balancing if needed).

Troubleshooting

Check that the bottom left corner shows "Custom Dictionary" and "Custom Letter Bag"
If your custom dictionary is recognized, but no words are correct, you probably haven't converted the text to UPPERCASE.

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Jackl. 20 Jul @ 11:51am

Maybe something to add to your guide, This is the location if you want to add the custom library to your steam deck

Home > "Show hidden files" > .local > share > Steam > SteamApps > compatdata > 3586660 > pfx > drive_C > steamuser > AppData > LocalLow > Game Maker's Toolkit > Word Play

Meiserati 17 Jul @ 3:42pm

Cool, thanx. It works

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