If anyone is looking, I am on the hunt for freelance or permanent part-time or full-time work in localization! I mainly work and have been trained in print and film media.

Ever wanted to command your own vampire army? 🧛🏻 Yeah, us too. ⚔️ Command an undead army in Decks of the Damned from Thorian Games and @goblinzstudio.com, now available in 9 languages thanks to LocQuest. With ethical localization, you’re laying all your cards on the table. 🂠 Get it on Steam. ⚙️

I have made this helpful flowchart to help people understand if the indie game they've heard of is a small indie game or not. If you are not in the indie world, and you have heard of a game, it is enormous. It is an absolute massive smash success that 99% of indie game devs could only dream of.

A very cute, sweet and chill #SaturdayVoidRec💫 to you all! Here comes Make Room by @kenney.nl, a relaxing building/decorating game with lots of customization options that we fell in love with. Perfect for a warm & cozy wintertime ❄️🏠 Curated by our @alkapibara.bsky.social 🤍

I was recently interviewed by Eleanor Warnock regarding the exploitation of passion, the devastating impact of machine translation/AI on the localization industry, and how collective action can bring about positive change. www.eleanot.es/p/the-human-...

¡Objeción! ☝️ Last week, @capcomusa.com released the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney trilogy in LatAm Spanish. The culprit? LocQuest ⛓️ That's Wright! It may please the court to know that this project was over 780,000 words! 😱 Grab it now on Nintendo Switch, PS4. Xbox One, and Steam ⚖️

I wanted to be a translator ever since I became aware translators existed. I started picking up translation gigs when I was an university student and later I became a full time translator once I realized that having some sort of 9-5 corporate job is not something I ever want to do.

Me when an aspiring game developer talks about how mean it is to judge indie devs for using AI generated assets:

"A well-localized game title is marketing fuel, legal armor, and cultural bridge—all in a handful of characters." @georgeou.bsky.social signs a title localization goldmine with deeply documented cases: a 10/10 read 📑

Translators of Bluesky, this is a cry for help: I'm a J-E translator who's considering setting up as a freelancer. Where do I even begin? What should my rates be? Are there any good resources for people in my position? Any input at all would be helpful. Thank you!

Also: people who clearly just don't like the book (the plot, the characters), but choose to write "maybe it's the translator's fault". The translator did not come up with the story! 😭

Me after confirming a bunch of 101%/100% matches in memoQ: #L10n #xl8

LUCASARTS PRESENTS Columbo in: SCUMM of the Earth #pixelart

Just some friends enjoying a relaxing afternoon at the meadow 🌼 #art #cozyart #gouache

Question for #booksky that's been on my mind a lot recently: where do you get your book recs from? Bookstagram/Booktok accounts seem to focus mostly on fantasy and YA fiction, and neither of those is my thing.

Forever a Stonehead, in a story full of Stones! 🗿 Honored to announce my debut for @thewarlocs.bsky.social to localize Stone Story RPG into Bahasa Indonesia. A quirky RPG with full of stories and its unique ASCII-Art that I truly love. Game Link: store.steampowered.com/app/603390/S... Cheers! 🍻

Happy #WishlistWednesday to all the #indiegames out there, the fans, the #gamedev teams. Wishlisting helps games get seen by others and boost sales! Please consider wishlisting Death by Scrolling on Steam: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GrQ... Thanks! 💀

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

It's my fifth anniversary of becoming a full time freelance translator and not only am I still here, I'm thriving. AI will have to kill me to get through me, baby.

Being a translator is a perfect job for an introvert... except for when I suddenly need to recruit other translators or manage a team of several people.

I booked a flight to Japan, my first one since... 2015! (😱) Can't wait (and I still have to wait until March), I'm going to buy SO MANY BOOKS 🥰

This is who shows up in the replies when a post reaches the discover tab

the swamp of despair (from 2018)

An update: I now have *two* broken keyboards. I just paste the letter "w" when I need it. Now I know how the medieval monks working in scriptoriums felt.

Everybody is rightfully pointing out that the CEO salaries are by far the highest, but another important point here is that CEOs clearly resent having to pay people for their work and wish they didn't have to do that. That's why they find AI appealing.

If you've been wondering what purgatory looks like, but are too lazy to sin, Ron Gilbert has the solution for you! AND I can tell you now that you will be able to play Death By Scrolling in Polish - have fun! 💀☠️

I'm preparing to publish the next installment of AI Killed My Job. This time, the focus will be on translators. If you or someone you know has had a translation job (including translator, interpreter, game localizer, etc) impacted by AI, and you'd like to share, please do: [email protected]

First time I'm feeling some kind of kinship with AI. Alternative comment: I think they might have infused it with a soul of a PhD student.

A thing that every translator knows: Sometimes the original is wrong.

In case you are also sick of seeing those horrible auto-translated titles and descriptions in YouTube (an even channel names, ffs!), here is an extension that makes it go away. github.com/YouG-o/YouTu...

From crusader kings 3

#WyrdWednesday Love these amazing 18th century whale/sea monster church pulpits L-R: Saints Peter & Paul Church, Duszniki, Poland; St. Hedwig Church, Dobroszów, Poland; St. James the Greater Church in Kratonohy, Czechia

"Justify your rates" is... extremely telling 🫥 I feel a sudden urge to message all my clients to thank them for being wonderful people who treat translators fairly, but I'm also a little scared that maybe all of us will eventually be forced to submit to this bullshit anyway.

Youtube started showing me automatically translated video titles and it's going splendidly. (If you don't speak Polish, this "translation" means something among the lines of "let those shits* leave") * literally pieces of excrement, not bad things or shitty people

More than anything I could say, what says the most about the people using AI in lieu of professional work is that they keep getting caught by letting the prompt in. They're so lazy they can't do the minimum to mask their laziness. They take shortcuts IN their shortcuts and end up in the ditch.

i keep cracking up at this post on AI writing

People be like "man, these games were hidden gems" and then name the four biggest indies that year

Book translation is going well, don't mind me, I'm just sobbing uncontrollably editing the scene where my favorite character is done SO dirty by people he loves and respects.

A good habit to have is to not check any messages from project managers right before going to sleep, in case something blew up and you're now going to be pointlessly stressing out about it. Ask me how I know. (I'm not checking them on purpose! But they show as phone notifications!)

I simply can't imagine trying to get into one of the most competitive professions in the game industry and thinking you don't need to do any studying or actual work, you can just use ChatGPT. Why would anybody pay them for that? What part of the job do they even want to do?

i'm going to be looking for new game localization-related work👀 if you know of any upcoming projects, or localization teams/publishers currently open to new freelancers, feel free to DM me!

Wait, you mean @boxdragon.bsky.social's As We Descend? THAT fine roguelike deckbuilder currently available in Early Access with a 17% launch discount??? 👀 Well, I'll be!!!

I've been thinking about this since the rise of machine translation, and even more since I started teaching TL. When I came up as a translator, I did a lot of brute force translation work—reams of emails about shipping delays, HR presentations, customer surveys, just the drudgiest of drudge work.

I am not sure what this says about my translation skills and preferences, but so far the easiest and most fun to translate part of this book is the scene where a bunch of members of National Diet are arguing and calling each other idiots.

Did AI kill your job? If so, I want to hear about it. The response to my story on the AI jobs crisis has been overwhelming. I heard from so many people impacted by AI that it made me want to collect and organize these stories to better understand the phenomenon. Share yours at: [email protected]

In Gorn 2 by @freelives.bsky.social & @devolverdigital.com there’s a subtle hint screen flavor text that goes “YOU MISS 100% OF THE PUNCHES YOU DON'T TAKE” Let's explain how our team localized that sentence into Polish & why it had to be creatively transcreated 👊🧵

Esta semana comienza un ciclo de masterclasses de Traduversia sobre localización de videojuegos del cual voy a formar parte junto con colegas geniales. ¡Qué orgullo! traduversia.com/curso/ii-cic...

Something about translating a book awakened in me an old dream to write one myself. Slightly worrying.