Translation and Localisation in Video Games

Author: Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317617835
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 333

Book Description
This book is a multidisciplinary study of the translation and localisation of video games. It offers a descriptive analysis of the industry – understood as a global phenomenon in entertainment – and aims to explain the norms governing present industry practices, as well as game localisation processes. Additionally, it discusses particular translation issues that are unique to the multichannel nature of video games, in which verbal and nonverbal signs must be cohesively combined with interactivity to achieve maximum playability and immerse players in the game’s virtual world. Although positioned within the theoretical framework of descriptive translation studies, Bernal-Merino incorporates research from audiovisual translation, software localisation, computer assisted translation, comparative literature, and video game production. Moving beyond this framework, Translation and Localisation in Video Games challenges some of the basic tenets of translation studies and proposes changes to established and unsatisfactory processes in the video game and language services industries.

Game Localization

Author: Minako O'Hagan
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027271860
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
Video games are part of the growing digital entertainment industry for which game localization has become pivotal in serving international markets. As well as addressing the practical needs of the industry to facilitate translator and localizer training, this book seeks to conceptualize game localization in an attempt to locate it in Translation Studies in the context of the technologization of contemporary translation practices. Designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the topic of game localization the book draws on the literature in Game Studies as well as Translation Studies. The book’s readership is intended to be translation scholars, game localization practitioners and those in Game Studies developing research interest in the international dimensions of the digital entertainment industry. The book aims to provide a road map for the dynamic professional practices of game localization and to help readers visualize the expanding role of translation in one of the 21st century's key global industries.

The Game Localization Handbook

Author: Heather Chandler
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN: 0763795933
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 387

Book Description
Authored by two internationally known experts in game localization, this text is a comprehensive, up-to-date reference for information about how to localize software for games, whether they are developed for the PC, console, or other platforms.

Legends of Localization Book 1

Author: Clyde Mandelin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984503278
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
An in-depth exploration of the localization of Nintendo's blockbuster franchise from Japanese to English.

Enhancing Video Game Localization Through Dubbing

Author: Laura Mejías-Climent
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030882926
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description
This book addresses the hot topic in audiovisual translation (AVT) of video game localization through the unique perspective of dubbing, an area which has so far received relatively little scholarly focus. The author analyses the main characteristics of video game localization within the context of English-Spanish dubbing, and emphasizes the implications for research and localization as a professional practice. The book will appeal to translation studies scholars and students, as well as AVT professionals looking to understand localization processes from a systematized approach.

Legends of Localization Book 2

Author: Clyde Mandelin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781945908903
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432

Book Description

Fun for All

Author: Carmen Mangiron
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN: 9783034314503
Category : Audio-visual equipment
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The different contributions in this pioneering volume address the emerging fields of Game Accessibility and Game Localization from different angles, providing insightful information about these relatively unexplored academic areas with such close tights to the industry.

The Game Localization Handbook

Author: Heather Maxwell Chandler
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN: 144969053X
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 387

Book Description
Part of the New Foundations of Game Development Series! As games become more popular in international markets, developers and publishers are looking for ways to quickly localize their games in order to capitalize on these markets. Authored by two internationally known experts in game localization, The Game Localization Handbook, Second Edition provides information on how to localize software for games, whether they are developed for the PC, console, or other platforms. It includes advice, interviews, and case studies from industry professionals, as well as practical information on pre-production, production, translation, and testing of localized SKUs. Written for producers, translators, development personnel, studio management, publishers, students, and anyone involved directly or indirectly with the production of localized games, this single-reference handbook provides insightful guidelines to all the tasks involved for planning and executing successful localizations.

The Dubbing Translation of Humorous Audiovisual Texts

Author: Pietro Luigi Iaia
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443881988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
This book provides a theoretical and practical framework for researchers and practitioners who focus on the construction, interpretation and retextualisation of audiovisual texts. It defines translation as a communicative and interpretative process, with translators seen as cross-cultural mediators who make the denotative-semantic and connotative-pragmatic dimensions of source scripts accessible to target receivers, prompting equivalent perlocutionary effects, while still respecting the original illocutionary force. While existing research on audiovisual translation generally adopts a product-based perspective, examining the lexico-semantic and syntactic features of source and target versions, this book proposes an “Interactive Model”, in order to explore what happens in the translators’ minds, as well as the influence of the interaction between the linguistic and extralinguistic dimensions in the construction and interpretation of audiovisual texts. The application of this Model to the analysis of a corpus of humorous films, TV series and video games foregrounds the integration between the analysis of the source-text features and the knowledge of the target linguacultural backgrounds in the creation of pragmalingustic equivalent scripts. At the same time, this book also provides valuable insights into the audience’s reception of these translations, by submitting close-ended and open-ended questionnaires to subjects representing empirical receivers, thus helping to evaluate the degree of linguistic and functional equivalence of target versions.

A Practical Guide to Localization

Author: Bert Esselink
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9781588110060
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 506

Book Description
Translation technology has evolved quickly with a large number of translation tools available. In this revised addition, much content has been added about translating and engineering HTML and XML documents, multilingual web sites, and HTML-based online help systems. Other major changes include the addition of chapters on internationalizatoi, software quailty assurance, descktop publishing and localization supprort. There is a focus on translators who want to learn about localization ad translation technology.