Video games localization 102

Format: Webinar presentations
Topic: Software, tools & computing

Course summary
Start time:Sep 13, 2011 16:00 GMT     Add to calendar

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Interview with Pablo Muñoz Sánchez on software and video game localization

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Language:English
Summary:Duration: 60 minutes. Check what time the course is running in your local time here
Description
In this session, we will see how a typical Excel file looks like in the case of video game projects and how we can work faster with Excel. We will also see how to deal with specific tags in video game localization projects, as well as character limitations and variables.

Further development:



Video recording: video games localization 101
Video games localization 103
Video games localization 104


Register for the 4 webinars in the series (Video games localization 101, Video games localization 102, Video games localization 103, Video games localization 104) and get one for FREE!

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Target audience
Anyone with experience in translation and with interest in video games. Prior experience in localization may be useful, but it’s not a prerequisite for attending these training sessions. There will some translation examples from English into Spanish, but they will be described in a way that serve for all languages.
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Pablo Muñoz Sánchez    View feedback | View all courses
Bio: Pablo Muñoz Sánchez (http://www.pmstrad.com) es traductor autónomo del inglés al español y se especializa en localización de videojuegos, software y páginas web. Como principal experiencia profesional, ha trabajado durante dos años en Nintendo of Europe (Frankfurt, Alemania) traduciendo varios títulos destacados para Wii y Nintendo DS, entre los que se incluyen videojuegos de las series Metroid y Donkey Kong. Ha sido profesor de un módulo dedicado a la localización de software y videojuegos en el Máster en Traducción y Nuevas Tecnologías (http://www.mastradumatica.com/) de la Universidad Internacional Menéndez y Pelayo de Sevilla y en los dos últimos años ha dado varias conferencias sobre localización de videojuegos. Asimismo, ha publicado números artículos dedicados a la localización y a la informática aplicada a la traducción en varias revistas especializadas como JoSTrans (http://www.jostrans.org/) y Tradumàtica (http://www.fti.uab.es/tradumatica/revista/). También es autor del blog de traducción Algo más que traducir (http://algomasquetraducir.com/), donde publica sus reflexiones sobre los aspectos profesionales de la traducción, las tecnologías de la traducción y la localización de videojuegos y software.
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