Industry friends--looking to do a Game Developer podcast episode about localization. Any cool folks in the community that I haven't met yet?

Good Evening, “video games” was a 45 year sociological study conducted by hardware development industries. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

Quand il faut traverser une rue sans ombre

Anyone who has bought or moved into a new place in the last few years will soon feel like they took the last helicopter out of a war zone. Left unregulated, this blatant fraud will proliferate like there's no tomorrow. As if the real estate market wasn't already catastrophic...

My recent emojis tell the story of Hokuto no Ken

I've been wanting to write a TL thread for v1 of Battan's Secondhand Sisters for a bit now, so just gonna jump into it! #けむたい姉とずるい妹 1巻の英訳についてちょっとした裏話を英語で紹介したいと思います！ばったん先生のどの作品もこうですが、非常に質の高い文章で、その意図や口調を英語でも伝えるよう、いろいろ工夫してきました。

Dear bsky friends, we're participating in the current Steam Next Fest with After the Wane, our upcoming dance as a magic ritual / coming of age narrative game at @nova-box.com and we're having a bit of a hard time rising above the miasma of IA slop. A kind act of wishlisting would help greatly.

If you ever worry over delivering a document with a typo, remember that PayPal's confirmation page still has one that hasn't been fixed for over a dozen years

Altagram blackmailing their senior freelancers to lower their rates to preposterous levels for Blizzard projects: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Our Void leader @mittovac.bsky.social had the honor to be part of the jury for ATAA's French Game Localization Award. Here's a little essay on how to actually judge (i.e. appreciate) a game localization, and an insight as to why and how Kathy Rain 2's translation got the award 🏆🧵

ACE is known for never crediting any of their contributors, as seen on Hell Is Us, RoboCop: Rogue City, Ad Infinitum (@nacon.bsky.social ) or Tunic ( @finjico.bsky.social ). One thing's for sure, their acronym does not stand for Always Credit Everybody.

Dungeon Tourists gameplay reveal in #WholesomeDirect2026 ! I'm a solo dev working very hard on this game. Please go wishlist it >:) meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow

Happy #PitchYaGame! What if you side with the monsters in a dungeon? 🧹 Become a dungeon janitor 🧌 Talk to monsters 🔨Clean up and decorate quarters 🕵️ Investigate a conspiracy 🃏 Battle with cards Wishlist and play demo! Demo: store.steampowered.com/app/2851050/... #Godotengine #indiegame #dungeon

It's pretty rare for a non live-service/MMO title to go above 1.000 queries, but life sims are notoriously full of one or two-word segments that could mean a million different things based on context. But we did it anyway!

The results are in: 0/4 of the recent Tales Remasters/Ports have credited the English localizers who worked on them. This has been an ongoing issue since 2014, when Tales games suddenly stopped crediting English localizers in both remasters and new entries. #TranslatorsintheCredits (1/8)

People who have access to the Switch 2 version of Tales of Arise: I've seen that there is a specific Switch 2 credits sequence available on the menu. I'm curious what kind of translation credits are included in that and would like screenshots, if possible.

Nitro Plus is looking for new writers and translators Available positions include: • Scenario writer for Nitro Chiral's BL games • JP→EN localizer (QC, supervision, rewriting, etc.) • 2D artist (coloring, additional artwork, adjustments) • 3DCG creator

Speedrunning the death of education any%

Anyone happen to know a freelancer that does human game localization of ENGLISH --> GERMAN?

Does somebody know of young/amateur/indie-budget-friendly voice actors in English they can point me to? Looking for some voiceover narrator work for a game, something that can be recorded in an afternoon or two tops.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

"I know everyone's biggest fear is, 'Oh my god, AI is going to take all our jobs.' That's not our goal. The goal is to make us more efficient." insérer le gif « La vie d'ma mère je suis en train de me contenir parce que sur la vie de ma mère je me contiens »

Vous êtes traductrice ou traducteur professionnel-le de jeux ? Pour le journal suisse Le Temps, je prépare un article sur la série de jeux MOTHER, et ceux qui se sont inspirés d'elle. Dans ce cadre, je souhaiterais vous poser quelques questions par écrit. Anonymat possible sur demande motivée.

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

My weirdest claim to fame was being featured on the Square Enix shareholders website as the face of professionalism circa 2008

Dead as Disco, developed by @brainjar.games and localized in 11 languages, does NOT feature any #TranslatorsInTheCredits. Only the localization provider, Side, is credited.

🖥️We're seeking an experienced Graphics & Animation Engineer to join our San Francisco-based team! Come help us build what's next after Hades II. This opportunity is open to US residents. ✅For details and how to apply: www.supergiantgames.com/blog/career-... #gamejobs #gamedevjobs #gamedev

I swear I'm not dyslexic

When I confirm segments on a group project that I haven't proofread yet and they show up in Concordance

I will start sending this to every single company that annoys me with their AI garbage (original credit: bsky.app/profile/jole... )

"Dynamic product placement into comic panels"

I am an ex-loc guy so it took me about a week to write all of the translator's notes for our mostly untranslatable script; the vast majority of the comments are me apologizing for jokes about umlauts, explaining Pennsylvania Dutch slang, and basically throwing my hands in the air

54% - That's the percentage of translators (out of 235 respondents) who only receive minimal or no reference material whatsoever for the games they're working on. Remember that figure next time you read a translation that sounds off in context!

Nearly half of these 100 are from games that were translated into English, btw, and a full half of the top 10 entries were written by translators. Sadly, some of them, like Suikoden 2, Yakuza 0, and Metal Gear Solid 4, blanket credit translation companies instead of listing names of individuals.

client feedback in the GenAI era

👉Wie ensteht eine Videospiellokalisierung? Spannendes, aufschlussreiches Video über den Aufwand und den Entstehungsprozess deutscher Games-Fassungen. U.a. mit unserer 1. Vorsitzenden Johanna Czerny! #LoveYourAVTranslator #HumansNotMachines #TranslatorsInTheCredits www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7HW...

I used to loooove April 1st in the games industry - companies always came up with cool/creative/silly ideas to drive community interest while having some fun. Now it's all "Teehee look at this AI garbage we spit out for the occasion, aren't we so quirky?"

2026 Localization Discourse

One of the main EN>CZ translators of KCD2 was fired and replaced by AI. old.reddit.com/r/kingdomcom...

The devs have replied to this comment. Feel free to follow or contribute here: steamcommunity.com/id/Bellandy/...

Looking for input from my fellow #gameloc peeps! Cast your vote here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Will it have crossplay?

FTFY.

Gameloc: Giving devs headaches since 1980

I was recently helping @locdandloaded.net who was working on localizing a project originally written in @articydraft.bsky.social We came up with a tool that parses JSON exports, mimicking some of Articy's original features which helps with LQA/Localization. If you'd like a demo, feel free to DM me!

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

Every time you think this industry can't get any worse, they still find ways to dig even deeper: Digital Hearts is now offering MCQ-based translations, so you can just take your pick from a selection of AI-generated garbage TLs for each line instead of, you know, properly translating them.

Appel à témoins 📢 Je travaille sur le verrouillage du doublage de JV en France et les éditeurs qui délocalisent cette étape pour ne pas s’embêter avec les questions d’IA dans les contrats. Anonymat garanti, n’hésitez pas si vous pouvez m’aider 👇