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In the excellent Forever Ago by @thirdshift.studio & @annapurna.com, you can choose to name your dog with a variety of options 🐺 A pet name has to sound cute but also be meaningful to the player, so let's see how we localized these options into Spanish, German & French! 👇🧵 #gameloc

27/10/26, 10:36 am7 reposts9 likes

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐝 💫 Game localizers

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10h

- 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶 - In French, mari literally means 'husband'. Given the theme of the game (and the fact that the dog is a female), our team went for 𝗟𝗶𝗹𝘆. 👉 'Lily' is a cute nickname in France and ‘Mari’ comes from Mariposa, a type of lily, so it made sense! For this same reason, it's also L𝗶𝗹𝗶 in German.

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐝 💫 Game localizers

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10h

- 𝗛𝗼𝗽𝗲 - ‘Hope’ does have corresponding names in several languages: ’𝗘𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲’ in French, ‘𝗘𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘇𝗮’ in Spanish and '𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘇𝗮' in Italian... Except for German where it's only a common noun, not a proper name! Therefore, our team chose the Spanish '𝗘𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘇𝗮' to make it sound right ✨

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐝 💫 Game localizers

@fromthevoid.net

10h

- 𝗧𝘄𝗶𝗴𝘀 - 𝗔𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 in German 👉 'Ast' means 'branch' but 'Aster' is also a purple flower, allowing to stay close to the original and to stick with the flower theme 🪻 𝗥𝗮𝗺𝗮 in Spanish 👉 'Branch'. The literal translation would be "palo" but it being a masculine substantive, our team chose a feminine one!

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐝 💫 Game localizers

@fromthevoid.net

10h

- 𝗠𝘂𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗻 - Muffins exist all over Europe so it stayed as is pretty much everywhere... Except for Spanish: 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗱𝗮. 👉 The traditional Spanish muffin is called "magdalena". Magdalena is also a given name for women in Spain, usually shortened as Magda: a way too perfect coincidence to let it go!