A command line tool for exporting .lang files used by Minecraft and other games from Google Spreadsheets.
Build the Visual Studio project, or just grab LanguageExport.exe from the Precompiled directory. Don't have .NET or Mono installed? Eydamos has written a Java version!
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Create a Spreadsheet on Google Drive with Symbol names in the leftmost column and Language codes in the topmost row. See here for a real example from my game Redirection.
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Press the Share button in Google Drive and set the visibility of the document to at least "Anyone with the link can view". Note the URL in the "link to share" box for the next step.
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From a terminal, run the LanguageExport tool as so (prepend "mono" on Mac or Linux systems):
LanguageExport.exe <URL from previous step> <output folder>
Your output folder will now contain .lang files with all the translations from the Spreadsheet. Re-run this tool whenever you need to update the translations in your game. Why not grant others edit access to your Spreadsheet to crowdsource your translation work?