Paul Chamberlain (Arkem)

@arkem.bsky.social

Game developer, I do freelance tech work. I also do indie stuff, so watch this space! https://www.arkem.org (He/Him)

oh this is fucking cool - cygames did a presentation on uma's localization. there's english slides as well speakerdeck.com/cygames/http...

【CEDEC2026】Creative Approaches to Localizing the Dialects and Unique Speech of Umamusume: Pretty Derby Characters in English

2026/07/24 CEDEC2026

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4Gamer 🔗https://www.4gamer.net/s/G041434.260729025 「方言は訳す」のではなく「個性を作り直す」――「ウマ娘 プリティーダービー」英語版ローカライズの舞台裏[CEDEC 2026] 「関西弁→アメリカ南部訛り」が正解とは限らない。キャラクターらしさを守るためにCygamesが採用したローカライズの考え方とは

Happy 52nd day of Pride Month. To celebrate, I made a video essay about Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury in the hopes that I can get other people to share my hyperfixation. It'll be up on Youtube later this week but you can watch it on Nebula right now. nebula.tv/videos/ladye...

Lady Emily — The Yuri Anime That Got Me Into Mecha

In which we talk about Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury and why it gave me permanent brainrot that I now must inflict on others.

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Now that I do freelance work again and have to deal with sending invoices I want to repost my favorite invoice so far. My client managed to put a typo in the milestone description which their vendor management software pulled to generate the invoice.

An excerpt from an invoice for my freelance work. The description field has an entry for "helping shit a video game", it was presumably a typo for "ship" but I got paid either way so didn't mind.

Now that I do freelance work again and have to deal with sending invoices I want to repost my favorite invoice so far. My client managed to put a typo in the milestone description which their vendor management software pulled to generate the invoice.

An excerpt from an invoice for my freelance work. The description field has an entry for "helping shit a video game", it was presumably a typo for "ship" but I got paid either way so didn't mind.

once the air quality index goes above 500 you start to see entire bricks floating suspended in the air. it’s pretty cool actually, you can climb on them and stuff

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