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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- In this episode, I answer a question from Paulo, who asks, “In terms of the gaming industry, the topic that matters to me the most is video game localization. I’m a Brazilian translator and I would love to translate games as well. I don’t know if you have already written anything about that, but I would love to know more if possible.”
In this episode, you’ll learn:
The difference between game translation and game localization
Some of the biggest challenges of localization
How you can get started as a video game localizer
Learn more at www.GameIndust...
I applied for a LQA position at a Japanese company to test for Spanish translation, specifically Mexican Spanish. I am from Mexico and I have always loved Japanese culture and this is my second time in this beautiful country. I really hope I get this job, this would be a dream come true 😭✨
Did you get the job?, I am working as an Arabic localization specialist in Japan.
Localisation Market in Russia is on the rise as well, but I think that we are still figuring it out. Whenever I play games I try to compare what a character says with translation given with in subtitles and there is definitely room for improvement. I'll do my best to to try and improve the situation, thx for the info!
I'm seriously thinking about going into this industry just because 90% of the comments under every (Russian) major game announcement are angry Russians asking if the game is going to be available in Russian. The demand is enormous.
Thank you so much! I started learning about game development in C++, Unreal Engine, and Open GL, meanwhile, I'm applying for a translation-localization job to enter the video game industry. I'm Brazilian, and this video was so helpful! Thanks again!
Cara, quais os melhores programas/meios para fazer todo o trabalho de tradução/localização de um jogo? Sempre me interessei por essa área, mas fora a questão de saber idiomas, eu não sei por onde começar na parte da programação (acho que é esse o nome); em relação a colocar o texto traduzido, traduzir a parte gráfica...
Great, I'm glad this was helpful. I hope you enjoy learning game development in C++, and I wish you the best with your career!
Great content! Thank you.
Glad you liked it! Thanks for listening.
Awesome video, I'm currently doing game translating for a local company in Nairobi, Kenya.
That's awesome, Alila! I wish you the best in your career as a game translator!
The best thing to start is to contact with indie teams. Smaller developers are much more open for fan translations than big companies, who (as it can be heard in the video) usually source out localization works to other companies. It is a good way to get experience, learn stuff about this branch, and make some relevance. If you have the neccessray education for working as a full time translator, this will higher your chance to work on videogame translations as a carrer.
Or you can just hunt for third party tools, fighting your way over different kind of coding and stuff to access the language files, translate them and then importing back into the game for debugging. This is kinda in a grey zone, but since most AAA publisher doesn't care about smaller populated countries, we are forced to use tricks like this. :\
Thank you for sharing these ideas, szogyenyi.
Thanks
No problem, thanks for listening!
Thank you for the video, i found it very interesting!
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!
Very helpful. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Can't wait to localise English games into Dutch, so much dutchies are missing out on great games because they can't understand English, I can finally fix that.
Hi Sir what do you think is the hourly rate for this job?
Hi sir I would like to become a game loclizer into Urdu.
Just imagine... A child replacing a woke adult localiser.