Congratulations to the Balloon Studios team for this achievement! You can play Botany Manor in Latam Spanish with translation by @yesicat.bsky.social and yours truly. It is also available in German, French, Japanese, Italian, Portuguese and Chinese by our @thewarlocs.bsky.social team.

This is a really interesting illustration of how the limitations of subtitling and dubbing affect localization choices! -- super quick thread! 🧵 As always, the question is: How do translators and adaptors make the decision to localize cultural references?

Fancy a mythical adventure and befriending the forgotten gods of Greek mythology? Check out this adventure game! We from @thewarlocs.bsky.social have localised it, and I have translated it into German for you! 🥳

Indeed we did, my dear Marcel! With @yesicat.bsky.social and Matías E. Desalvo on LatAm Spanish, @frenchchriss.bsky.social and @clement-martin.fr on French, and @ontakahashi.bsky.social PM'ing the whole thing! A godly feat for sure! ⚡️⚡️⚡️

It's that time again! Here's whether #TheGameAwards 2024 nominees (GOTY/Indie categories) include all #TranslatorsInTheCredits Happy to report the situation has dramatically improved over the last few years, but these don't show the whole picture of #gameloc crediting state...

Dreams 🥰

Okay. Okay. Let's talk about translating 「許さない」. Why do JA>EN translators get it so wrong all the time, and how can we avoid the same shortcomings, lest we, too, never be forgiven? 🧵

And to the Brazilian devs and games industry folks here, do post a "hi" as a reply here and let us know who you are and what you do?

Algo de lo que me gustaría que se hablara más es de que el hecho de revisar o poseditar MT o IA es que... te fríe el cerebro. Elian Kuhn habla de ello (ole ahí) y no he podido evitar hacer lo propio. www.linkedin.com/posts/sergio...

This year I got myself into song adaptation so bad that it's like a linguistic crush of sorts. And now I'm studying Skaldic and Eddic poetry to translate some extracts from Old Norse. My crush turned into infatuation. Please someone stop me, or I'll end up declaiming to the "revontulet" in the sky 😅

Celebrating the International Translation Day with the founding members of the AATI's game localization committee: Lau Cariola, Guido Bindi and Lau Ferrari. Only Santi de Miguel was missing (he's memoqing in Japan). We missed you, Santi! 🫂

Let my first post be about what takes my sleep after long translation nights :D