Lucile Danilov
@locdandloaded.net
Freelance Translator 🇺🇸 - 🇫🇷 (KonoSuba, Rune Factory, WitchSpring, Mouthwashing), Game Localization Consultant and overall menace. Author of https://locdandloaded.net/
Lifetime award achievement unlocked 🏆 I've been featured in Vladimir Sechkarev's new book about #gameloc, "Искусство утраты. Трудности перевода и локализации в игровой индустрии", loosely translated as "The Art of Losing: Translation and localization in the video game industry"!
I would like to give a firm handshake to whichever mad lad/lass at LinkedIn came up with this name. Hope your boss isn't too angry at you.
I recently completed a LQA project that had me bawling like a baby (for like, good, narrative-related reasons), and it reminded me just how much I love this job. So, so incredibly lucky to still be able to do this, despite the depressing state of the industry. I'll never take it for granted.
Appreciate that this touches on how awful MTPE (machine translation post-editing) is, and glad that there are still some companies who refuse to use it. Also, reminder that contractors are far more likely to get shafted in the credits, either being reduced to a company name or nothing at all.
Kotaku@kotaku.com · 2w agoThousands of full-time video game industry workers have been laid off in the last several years as game companies scramble to cut costs. But there are even more cuts happening quietly to contract workers, wh... https://kotaku.com/amidst-mass-layoffs-contract-workers-devastated-video-games-2000718416
Should you localize your game? 🤔 Choosing a market for localization feels kind of like playing Russian (or Spanish, Chinese, Arabic…) Roulette. The good news? 🗞️ There’s an easier, more cost-effective way forward: localizing your Steam store page. Read more: locquest.com/localizing-s...
Game devs, please have a look at this article, as well as those that hopefully will follow! Understanding the degeneration of localization is key to get why you shouldn't just leave the process to whomever does it cheaper.
The Dark Secrets of Localization – Episode 1: How Three Became One, or the Great Decline
I used to dig Picasso, Then the big tech giant came along And turned him into wallpaper. When you hear my song now, You only get five percent.
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Je suis cité dans l'article pour rappeler à Toby Fox le vieil adage, « traduire c'est trahir » 🥲 En tant que créateur, il a le droit de faire ce qu'il veut de son œuvre, y compris ne pas la traduire dans des langues qu'il ne maîtrise pas lui-même, comme il l'a expliqué. cependant.gif
Yann@yannrdr.bsky.social · 3w agoNouvel article : les fans ont beaucoup fait pour la série de jeux vidéo Mother (EarthBound), y compris traduire eux-mêmes un épisode qui n'a jamais quitté le Japon. 20 ans plus tard, mon papier pour @letemps.ch 🍄
Imagine being a designer, opening Photoshop, trying to add a layer or rasterize a picture, and getting hit with a warning: "You can't do that without the approval of your superior". This is what some CAT tool providers are doing. (Original screenshot by Andy Tang)
Localisation is far more difficult than the public realises. It requires art, design, engineering, translation, and production logistics have to all align in the right way to ship something good. It is not something you can slap in at the end.
Cara Ellison@caraellison.bsky.social · 4w agogame devs: what are the myths that a lot of players of games think are true about making games that are completely untrue? If you could snap your fingers and they suddenly all knew the truth about it what would it be?
The 7th Guest Remake, developed and published by @vertigo-games.bsky.social and localized in 9 languages, does NOT feature any #TranslatorsInTheCredits. Only the localization provider, Localsoft, is credited.
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.
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...
The Verge@theverge.com · last mo.“I get in, and it’s not the same apartment at all.” As brokers ramp up use of generative AI, renters are spending even more time scrutinizing every listing to avoid ending up in an apartment that looks far better online than it does in person. Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: buff.ly/KKNW9iN
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.
After the Wane on Steam
Retracing the footsteps of a mother she never knew, Lena's trying to make it as a dancer in the city. Caught in a quarrel between dance companies, dealing with love and heartbreak and the challenges o...
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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/...
I was a bit slow to move on this because I was hoping to put together more info, but a source reached out a couple months ago to inform me that Altagram Group - Game Localization have been pressuring…...
I was a bit slow to move on this because I was hoping to put together more info, but a source reached out a couple months ago to inform me that Altagram Group - Game Localization have been pressuring ...
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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!
LocQuest 🛡️ Ethical Localization@locquest.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe life sim game you’ve all been waiting for 🤗 @paralives.com is about building homes, lives and bonds. Through both hardship and success, where will your story take you? LocQuest’s story took us through over ❗️1,300 queries❗️ in 8 different languages. Now available in Early Access on Steam!
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)
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 3mo agoEveryone who worked on a video game needs to be in the credits: aftermath.site/video-game-cre...
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
