Some things to consider when looking for video game translators What to look for when hiring translators or a company to work on your game.

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(insert bloodborne framerate joke here)

cotton rock with you is coming to APM3 on Friday - excited to try that out soon

Muchi Muchi Pork and Re:Fried Beans plz
cave plzzzz

Language in Japan, Volume 3 Published by The Society for Japanese Linguistics. OPEN ACCESS

英文機関誌『Language in Japan』第3巻刊行のお知らせ
www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/lij/3...

yeah, that is a valid fear...

I checked a long document a few years ago that was very strangely (and badly) translated in a way that suggested some kind of pre-LLM-era machine translation and it did me in for a while, too. I haven't done an LLM TL check yet, but I guess it'll have a similar effect

The Day My Dog Spontaneously Combusted there he was – chasing sticks, doing tricks, and all that stuff next minute, woof Brian Bilston

Today’s poem is called ‘The Day My Dog Spontaneously Combusted’.

previously, context errors and inconsistencies would be reliably paired with typos, grammar errors, or other basic mistakes, but LLM output will not have these kinds of mistakes and will read smoothly *at first glance* (though LLS do completely mess up proper nouns now and again, funnily enough)

re lrt, i sometimes check translation tests and i now get extremely apprehensive when I encounter instances where (textual or real-world) context is overlooked. the linked post is very enlightening. i really need to learn more about how LLM-generated text looks

Clearly I'm not reading random blog posts with a paranoid enough eye because there's a very convincing case being made here (boxobarks.leaflet.pub/3misaejnoqs2k) that this was itself written by Claude.

mmm axially sliced bagel

is this what they mean by vertical slice

Radirgy Swag game over screenshot. 756 million points, 23 minutes, 1.1 million kilometres travelled

new pb!! I never got this far in the switch version! Still at third place in the online leaderboards though

#RadirgySwag

Radirgy Swag spam message from "Legal-Highz Order Online": Subject: Make the Past Disappear Got Regrets? We'll Buy Them Back! Turn Mistakes and Unwanted Memories into Cash!

uhhhhhhhhh i ought to contact this Legal-Highz place about *squints* killing the past

#RadirgySwag

many of you i think idk

it's fair enough to want to personally be involved with any official translations, but also good translators can do amazing things if you give them a bit of trust (and a bit of context too)

UT and DR are some of the last games to have issues recouping digitally i'd imagine (not to discount the issue of shipping physical stuff), but the point in lrt still stands

People don't understand how expensive localization is when done right. For any one new language in Demonschool we would have to sell 1,500 new, full-price copies in that target language *just to make the money back.* you can work with cheaper agencies but that usually means poorly paid labor.

Steam :: Radirgy Swag :: Radirgy Swag (Steam) - Spam Message Update Translated some in-game spam messages that were previously untranslated. Added a “How to Play” trailer to the store page. Fixed UI issues in the Ranking and Settings menus. Other minor bug fixes.

Radirgy Swag has been updated and now a large chunk of the spam messages have been translated (by another member of the team) - it should look a lot more cohesive now!
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#RadirgySwag

Screenshot of the script editor, showing a screenshot at the top and a spreadsheet-like view on bottom. The screenshot at the top features the text that's being typed into the actively-selected text box.

New blog post! I threw together a little graphical script editing utility for the Magic School Lunar fan translation, which lets me visualize every line of dialogue as I write it in order to let me see how it'll look in-game.

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game over screen of Radirgy Swag in a run that lasted 22 minutes and went for almost 1 million kilometres. 668 million points

finally got past the moon in swag - it took 15 in-game hours for me. you need to make progress in the orders and collect lots of stars over multiple runs - I'm currently at 72% progress and I have almost 3000 star items
#RadirgySwag

Cotton Rock With You launches August 6 in Japan Shoot 'em up game Cotton Rock With You will launch for PlayStation 5, Switch 2, and PC via Steam on August 6 in Japan for 6,380 yen, SUCCESS Corporation announced. It will support English, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, French, Spanish, and Portuguese language options. An arcade version will also be available.

Cotton Rock With You launches August 6 in Japan

Shoot 'em up game Cotton Rock With You will launch for PlayStation 5, Switch 2, and PC via Steam on August 6 in Japan for 6,380 yen, SUCCESS Corporation announced. It will support English, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese,…

an exit strategy consisting of going out the back door

don't talk to my coffee

alcohol abuse...

why are people always nursing drinks? who is out there maiming the world's beverages?

mfw the envelope is illmatic

they also announced their intentions to revisit Karous: The Beast of re;Eden, the mission-based game originally released for 3DS—they're planning more of a revision/remix than a port, sounds like, and there'll be more info early next month