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Japanese/Chinese/Korean/English/Dutch game localization
Category: translation
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282,117 Words, 705 Pages, Daily Deadlines: Translating F1 25 at 300 km/h
Imagine the pressure. You’re handed a 300,000-word behemoth. The next installment of the world’s most intense motorsport simulator, with a global fanbase ready to rip you apart over the wrong word for “kerbstone.” And then you’re told: “Make it flawless. Make it sing in Dutch. Oh, and deliver daily—sometimes 4,000 words a day—without a single…
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1.5 Million Words, 12 Years, and Zero Pit Stops: My Wild Ride Translating Real Racing 3
Let’s get this out of the way right now: 1.5 million words. That’s how much I’ve translated for Real Racing 3 since 2013. That’s more words than most people would ever want to hear about the inner workings of a car engine. But I’ve been doing it for 12 years, never missing a beat (or…
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Pay Peanuts, Get Lawsuits: The Truth About $0.03 Translations
So, there it was: a shiny email from China offering me the incredible privilege of translating Chinese-Dutch patents—one of the most complex, specialized types of translation on the planet—for the princely sum of $0.03 per word. That’s three. Whole. Cents. For every painstakingly translated word. I checked the date—nope, not April Fool’s. They were dead…
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Localization: Damned If You Do And Damned If You Don’t
Alright, grab your popcorn, because this tale is a perfect blend of drama, irony, and gamers proving once again that nothing gets them angrier than a studio doing something they didn’t expect. So, what happened? CD Projekt Red (CDPR), the Polish studio behind The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077, decided to throw a curveball during The…
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