Lucile Danilov

@locdandloaded

Freelance Translator 🇺🇸 - 🇫🇷 (KonoSuba, Rune Factory, WitchSpring, Mouthwashing), Game Localization Consultant and overall menace. Author of

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Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· 1d

It's not often you get to work on a game that was originally released before you were even born... and I'm no spring chicken 💀 Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns, a remaster of the 1986 Amiga classic, is now available - with French localization by yours truly!

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· 8d

You may not like it, but this is what peak localization looks like (Asterix: Mega Madness (PS1, 2001))

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· 11d

En effet, mais jusqu'à 2023-24, la vaste majorité des projets de traduction JV étaient encore en "traduction humaine", alors qu'aujourd'hui on note une augmentation extrêmement inquiétante de "relecture machine" uniquement. Et c'est sans parler des doublages éclatés à l'IA...

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· 11d

La localisation a été l'un des premiers secteurs touchés par l'emmerdification générale de l'industrie (locdandloaded.net/2025/05/13/h...), on a beau tirer sur la sonnette d'alarme depuis des années, difficile de se faire entendre...

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· 11d

This book covers a wide variety of gameloc topics across 320 pages, from the primordial chaos of the 90s to the present day, as well as in-depth case studies. A treasure trove of information for anyone interested in the topic!

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· 11d

Lifetime award achievement unlocked 🏆 I've been featured in Vladimir Sechkarev's new book about #gameloc, "Искусство утраты. Трудности перевода и локализации в игровой индустрии", loosely translated as "The Art of Losing: Translation and localization in the video game industry"!

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· 14d

I would like to give a firm handshake to whichever mad lad/lass at LinkedIn came up with this name. Hope your boss isn't too angry at you.

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· 15d

Well well well, would you look at that

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· 17d

I recently completed a LQA project that had me bawling like a baby (for like, good, narrative-related reasons), and it reminded me just how much I love this job. So, so incredibly lucky to still be able to do this, despite the depressing state of the industry. I'll never take it for granted.

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· Jul 10

Imagine being a designer, opening Photoshop, trying to add a layer or rasterize a picture, and getting hit with a warning: "You can't do that without the approval of your superior". This is what some CAT tool providers are doing. (Original screenshot by Andy Tang)

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· Jun 23

Anyone who has bought or moved into a new place in the last few years will soon feel like they took the last helicopter out of a war zone. Left unregulated, this blatant fraud will proliferate like there's no tomorrow. As if the real estate market wasn't already catastrophic...

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· Jun 19

Done! It looks lovely, wishing your team all the best 👏 (also because #TeamPainAuChocolat, of course)

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· Jun 18

If you ever worry over delivering a document with a typo, remember that PayPal's confirmation page still has one that hasn't been fixed for over a dozen years

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· Jun 16

You're right, translators are still needed to "verify" the slop machine's output. Except this kind of word-shoveling work is valued/paid so little no professional wants to touch it with a 10-foot pole. If you want to learn more: locdandloaded.net/2025/05/13/h...

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· Jun 1

Definitely one of the hardest challenges our team's ever had to tackle, but also one that led to the funniest Discord convos

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· May 18

Speedrunning the death of education any%

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· May 12

Seen this being shared on Twitter, perhaps a good fit?

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· May 11

When the author inevitably gets axed in Epic's 17th round of layoffs this year, I want her to remember that she just "wasn't efficient enough".

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· May 8

My weirdest claim to fame was being featured on the Square Enix shareholders website as the face of professionalism circa 2008

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· Apr 28

I swear I'm not dyslexic

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· Apr 24

When I confirm segments on a group project that I haven't proofread yet and they show up in Concordance

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· Apr 20

I will start sending this to every single company that annoys me with their AI garbage (original credit: bsky.app/profile/jole... )

An email that reads: "Hi Lucile,

Hope you're well. Your site being the go-to resource for game localization freelancers means your audience is already dealing with this: clients asking them to post-edit AI output without any way to know which parts are wrong.

That's the problem. AI translation looks right even when it isn't — especially in games where context shifts constantly. We built [REDACTED]: multiple models review each other blind and flag disagreements. Those conflict points are where the localization errors hide.

Try it out: [REDACTED]"

My reply: "There is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

It feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.

It offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

There are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

For when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· Apr 17

"Dynamic product placement into comic panels"

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· Apr 14

54% - That's the percentage of translators (out of 235 respondents) who only receive minimal or no reference material whatsoever for the games they're working on. Remember that figure next time you read a translation that sounds off in context!

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· Apr 1

I used to loooove April 1st in the games industry - companies always came up with cool/creative/silly ideas to drive community interest while having some fun. Now it's all "Teehee look at this AI garbage we spit out for the occasion, aren't we so quirky?"

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· Mar 31

2026 Localization Discourse

A variant of "Pushing Both Buttons" meme. Left side reads: "Toby Fox: Translation is so hard, better leave it to the fans", right side reads: "Warhorse: Translation is so easy, better leave it to AI"

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· Mar 25

The devs have replied to this comment. Feel free to follow or contribute here: steamcommunity.com/id/Bellandy/...

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· Mar 24

"First they came for the translators, and I did not speak out, because I was not a translator."

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· Mar 23

Looking for input from my fellow #gameloc peeps! Cast your vote here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

A picture of a LinkedIn post that says: Fellow gameloc specialists, how much reference material do you usually get from the end client when starting a new project? LinkedIn doesn't allow long descriptions in polls, so read them below before casting your vote :)

1 - None: Nothing. Nada. Zilch. (Excluding standard stuff like the title... If you're lucky)
2 - Minimal: A 2-paragraph outline and a few reference screenshots, perhaps a trailer
3 - Partial: A script with dialogues in order, character reference sheets, game design documents outlining all mechanics and core concepts of the game
4 - Full: All of the above and a playable build with cheat codes

I understand this can vary widely from one project/client to another, hence why I'm looking for an average. Stay tuned for the results in a couple of weeks and feel free to share this post to gather as many opinions as possible!

Disclaimer: Your answers are disclosed to the poll's author (me). When publishing the results, I'll make sure they're all anonymized.

Lucile Danilov@locdandloaded· Mar 19

Je ne vois pas de quoi tu parles