𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐝 💫 Game localizers

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

- 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!

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

- 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 ✨

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

“We've been concerned by recent news of games being reverse-engineered, cloned, and published before the original is even out.” In these dark times, we need gamers to be extra careful of what they play and where their money goes. Pay attention & support real gamedevs. aftermath.site/steam-next-f...

4 games we worked on that deserve your attention this #SteamNextFest! ⚙️ Probably Stolen @questinggoose.bsky.social ⛏️ Too Deep to Quit @demonmax.bsky.social 👽 Hull Rupture @despotsgames.bsky.social 🏰 How Empires Work by Crow Cottage And you know what... They all release SUPER SOON!

🍄 𝗠𝘆𝗰𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗻𝗸 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝟭.𝟬 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆!🍄 The most chaotic, fun, hyper-customizable, mission based looter shooter by @pigeonsatplay.bsky.social finally reaches its full release! Grab your friends and cut through fungal aliens in your native tongue thanks to your favorite Employees from the Void 🤍 🪳

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🍄 𝗠𝘆𝗰𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗻𝗸 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝟭.𝟬 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆!🍄 The most chaotic, fun, hyper-customizable, mission based looter shooter by @pigeonsatplay.bsky.social finally reaches its full release! Grab your friends and cut through fungal aliens in your native tongue thanks to your favorite Employees from the Void 🤍 🪳

Being based in France, we were in the front row for the protests of the past month & October 17th. The violence deployed by the government to repress the country's youth is shocking & unacceptable. ✊ From the Void stands with the French students as well as the Cockroaches in India...

💥 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝟰𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬: 𝗕𝗼𝗹𝘁𝗴𝘂𝗻 𝟮 is OUT 💥 A lot of us at FtV have suffered for years from a particularly resilient addiction to Warhammer that has now paid off with our first project within the franchise. A landmark moment we're extremely proud of, although it's all in service to the Emperor, ofc!

Introducing the 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗼𝗶𝗱 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗮𝘅𝘆: all the games we've worked on, all our linguists. No need to buy and complete every game. No need to wait a decade for MobyGames to update. No fear of poaching. Explore the galaxy ➡️ fromthevoid.net/credits 💫

Since we started more than 6 years ago, crediting has always been one of our central fights and we're very glad to have seen a lot of progress in the industry these last few years thanks to various groups and individuals who've supported the #TranslatorsInTheCredits movement.

Dear translators: please take a break today. You deserve it. Our craft is a subtle, often misunderstood one, but we know the amount of skills, creativity and passion it takes. It's worth the neverending fight for #TranslatorsintheCredits and against LLMs. We see you. You rock 🤍

(and we mean a real break, with coffee and pastries and all.)

🖼️ 𝗧𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝘁𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 🖼️ Not like making tapestry, more acting like tapestry. Dating back to the 19th century, this expression comes from the era of balls: when someone went alone to an event and wasn't invited to dance, therefore staying standing in a corner, it was said that they were "doing tapestry".