Translation and Localisation in Video Games: Making Entertainment Software Global

ISBN-13: 9781138731462 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 302 str.

Miguel A. Bernal-Merino

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. A New Area within Translation Studies  2. Games, Markets and Translation  3. The Translation of Multichannel Texts  4. The Translation of Video Games  5. The Industrial Process of Game Localisation  6. Training  7. Conclusion and Way Forward

O autorze

Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino, PhD in the localisation of multimedia interactive entertainment software at Imperial College, is a localisation researcher and writer who lectures at the University of Roehampton, UKand several other universities across Europe. He is the co-founder and elected chair of the ‘IGDA Localization SIG’. He has coordinated the ‘Game Localization Round Table’ (for Localization World), as well as the ‘Localization Summit’ (for GDC) from their conception.