🤩 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗛𝗼 𝟮 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁! 🤩 ... And we're happy to say we localized it into 8 languages 😏 Many thanks to @devolverdigital.com & @lecartelstudio.bsky.social for their trust. Get ready to enjoy online co-op mayhem in your native tongue, thanks to your favorite chaos bringers from the Void 🤍 💫

💫⬇️ 𝗚𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗟𝗢𝗖 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗖𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗗𝗘𝗩𝗦 ⬇️💫 If you're a dev (or publisher) having to handle localization for a game, we got you. Here's a thread of the best resources we've come accross, whether it's your first time or you'd like to find a better way to handle it all! 🧵

We've been giving a lot of game recommendations, but the time has finally come... We don't know what to play this weekend. What #indiegames have caught your attention lately? Please share your favorite indie gems 🤍 #SaturdayVoidRec💫

The crazy How Many Dudes by @bscotch.net has been nominated for Best Strategic Roguelike for TMG @tmgexpo.bsky.social! Go wishlist it right away and be ready for July 30 💫 store.steampowered.com/app/3934270/...

Back from the Game Camp, here are 4 games for your #WishlistWednesday: 💭 Contenir by @naejdoree.bsky.social 🗺️ Beware the Cartographer by @tohubohu.games 🥊 Knuckle Paradise by @flying-oak.com 💥 KAZ by @kalinarm.bsky.social Of course, they went straight to our localization wishlist 🤍 Steam links⬇️

𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘀 is out! 🥳 A fantasy-themed action platformer that fuses shmup-style chaos with roguelite progression and is packed with challenge and secrets... that you can uncover in your native tongue thanks to our dungeons raiders from the Void 🤍 💫

5/ On source VS target • Does the translation relay the original intention, the intended feeling? • Are there misinterpretations or mistranslations? Fidelity and creativity are equally important. The art of localization resides in the subtle balance between transparency and transcreation 💫

4/ On implementation (a particularly important point, as it is specific and crucial to a videogame localization) • Has the loc been tested and implemented properly? • Is there any overlapping text or elements that don't fit in the interface?

3/ On style • Is the text fluid, readable? • Is the text adressing the player written in a way fitting the tone of the game? • Does each character have a distinct voice?

2/ On linguistics • Is the language good? • What about grammatical mistakes? • Typos? • Do the sentences make sense in the target language? • Are they devoid of Anglicisms?

1/ On subjectivity and your own preferences (you need to aknowledge them to be as fair as possible!)

First: congrats to the French localization team of @riotloc.bsky.social for winning the award with Kathy Rain 2! And cheers to the other finalists, Citizen Sleeper 2 & Split Fiction - their translations were brilliant as well.

Our Void leader @mittovac.bsky.social had the honor to be part of the jury for ATAA's French Game Localization Award. Here's a little essay on how to actually judge (i.e. appreciate) a game localization, and an insight as to why and how Kathy Rain 2's translation got the award 🏆🧵

Congratulations to the brilliant translators over at @riotloc.bsky.social for winning ATAA's French Video Game Localization Award with Kathy Rain 2 🏆✨ And lots of cheers to the other nominees for their remarkable work as well 🤍

"I'd much rather give them the sense of what the line means and let them work their magic to come up with an equivalent phrase in the destination language than limply translate a metaphor verbatim." A pleasure to see such a great writer's deep understanding of a translator's craft 🤍 #gameloc

A 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 recap of this week's news for your weekend☀️ - A city in California permanently banned datacenters. - Amazon cancelled its AI-generated animated series. - Florida is suing ChatGPT producer OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, saying he showed “Utter Disregard for the Risk to Human Life”. 🤞

🧈 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱! 🧈 Allegedly derived from medieval market punishments where dishonest dairy vendors were forced to stand in the sun with their own butter on their heads; the melting butter publicly exposing their fraud. Often used to prevent someone from criticizing others.

Are you going to Game Camp this year? 👀 Our special envoy @laurelinewho.com will be there, feel free to find her on MeetToMatch to discuss everything localization 💫 We're always in search of new projects to work on, new devs to meet and new publishers to collaborate with 🤍 fromthevoid.net

In TAVRN'S TAKEDOWN, you'll fight a lot of colorful characters, including 💥Sister Ka-Pow💥 A great name made from an onomatopoeia... How does one translate such a nice sounding name, you ask? Here's how our fabulous Spanish team @bigbadwolframio.bsky.social & @narfius.bsky.social did it 🤍 ⬇️

Last month saw the release of 𝙈𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣 💫 Branching plot, comic book aesthetic, full voice-over & deck building cards battler mechanics... An absolute delight. Cherry on top? You can enjoy this narrative adventure in Japanese, French & Korean thanks to your favorite Magins from the Void 🤍

How letting your translators brainstorm together brings out the best localization possible: an example. In The Bookwalker, said "Bookwalker" has the same translation in French, Spanish & Italian. Here's how our teams worked together on the most important name in @do-my-best.bsky.social's game 👇

Guess who's back with an indie gem recommendation 😏 It's actually @narfius.bsky.social who tested Block Witch, a narrative puzzle adventure with mechanics similar to those of the ice gym in Pokemons (iykyk) 🧊 Eager to play the final game! #SaturdayVoidRec💫

"The phrasing is Cthulhu-esque and difficult, but it captures the atmosphere." Translating lovecraftian prose ✅ Nailing the vibe ✅ Loc so smooth it's unnoticeable ✅ Review of the beautiful HYPNOS by @redlockstudio.bsky.social 🤍

Today in our very own #WishlistWednesday: ❄️ The Last Winter Knight by @endysis.bsky.social 🐣 Duck Side of the Moon by @starbrewgames.bsky.social 💸 Gamble with your Friends by @tenstack.bsky.social ⚙️ Scraps of the Machine by @knightdivgames.bsky.social We'd 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 to localize these games 🤍

Today is a good day ☀️ We are absolutely thrilled to announce that: 1️⃣ The ATAA (French association of audovisual translators & adapters) is launching their first edition of the French Video Game Localization Award 🏆 2️⃣ Our founder @mittovac.bsky.social is part of the jury! Rendez-vous June 5th 💫

Our friends at @redlockstudio.bsky.social just released their beautiful HYPNOS into Early Access! You can wander through the Nameless City and talk to enigmatic strangers in Spanish, Japanese, German & Russian thanks to your favorite Dreamers from the Void... 🤍 💫

Today is #WorldPortugueseLanguageDay and we're here to celebrate! 🫏 This idiom describes a color you cannot describe. It may be a corrupted form of "Corro de burro quando foge" 👉 "I run away from a donkey when it flees". Over time, "corro" became "cor" (color)... Changing the expression entirely!

𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑽𝒐𝒊𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒚𝒔𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆, 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒕 𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒋𝒐𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒋𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒚𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅𝒔 𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅... Welcome to our 6th year of localizing games with passion, ethics and care 🤍💫

🥔 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐞𝐬 🥔 Coming from old trattorie, this phrase was used on menus to avoid repeating the name of a dish available with various side options. They wrote "idem" (👉"same") but with potatoes, broccoli, spinach... Potatoes being the most common side dish, the idiom stuck with them!

We are 6 years old already. Happy birthday to us 💫 and cheers to all our talented linguists. You know who you are - and people know too, because your names are 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 in the credits. You are the Void 🤍 #TranslatorsintheCredits