Albert Wei

W/@thewarlocs, E-ZH l10n linguist: Loco Motive, One-eyed Likho, Exp 33, Chants of Sennaar, Stoneshard, Axiom Verge 2, Black Book, Death Stranding 1&2, etc.

[Albert Wei @StrayAlbert]

Hi guys, I'm a native Simplified Chinese speaking gamer and a passionate freelance English-Simplified Chinese video game localization translator. I am hoping to help more devs, especially indie devs, bring their brilliant games to the Chinese player community！

[Awesome Games Studio | wishlist HELLREAPER! 🔥 @AwesomeGamesStd]

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[Albert Wei @StrayAlbert]

@jegaevi Unfortunately, you would still need to do pointing and calling as if you were driving, throughout the entire shift😂

[Albert Wei @StrayAlbert]

@willion007 @uramizaramashi 四川方言第一个不同意，西北虽然在北方，但不少地方其实也不说

[羊圈Yan-Gyan @YangyanH5]

このゲームでは、ボランティアによる翻訳者を募集しています
英語から日本語への翻訳に興味のある方は、ぜひご協力ください

[Albert Wei @StrayAlbert]

@JustCherry__ Even "去吃饭了"

[Albert Wei @StrayAlbert]

@JustAnotherTL It surprised me in a similar way, as it's like no one along the decision-making chain for this understand how dominant different perception of gen AI can be outside China or eastern Asia, even if we look at this contest from a pure branding perspective

[Albert Wei @StrayAlbert]

@JaufreVF @Ucankabak @JustAnotherTL I think the justification for having someone different doing lqa (both 2 & 3) may be that a different brain, not just another pair of eyes, can be needed to validate certain approaches are good enough. I kinda get that, as one can indeed be blinded by their own preferences

[Albert Wei @StrayAlbert]

Who should take care of LQA of a game? 1. Linguists that worked on its localization, 2. other linguists from the team that worked on its localization, who can discuss with them, or 3. someone outside the team? What's your choices and opinions? Thank you in advance!

[Albert Wei @StrayAlbert]

@Jonathan_Blow It quite depends on the exact style of the Latin letter font, if you want the Chinese font to match its style to some extent. Noto serif can be a safe option, but it can look too bland and formal

[Albert Wei @StrayAlbert]

@Ucankabak @JustAnotherTL As for 3, in my experience, mostly as a receipient of LQA feedbacks, this approach works the least effecient and effective, because it's almost the opposite of No.1, plus again the great point @JustAnotherTL raised.

[Albert Wei @StrayAlbert]

@Ucankabak @JustAnotherTL Theoretically speaking, 2 should be an ideal alternative to having linguists checking their own work in-game, but I can imagine that to require good channel of communication and fair compensation for time spent by both, which seems not sufficiently common across the industry 2/3

[Albert Wei @StrayAlbert]

@Shinaxite_ @VOTAPVBLICA More accurately, it means agreement or acknowledgement, like "that's right/correct"

[Albert Wei @StrayAlbert]

@clamm0363 Happy birthday!🎂

[Albert Wei @StrayAlbert]

Yeah, to get the most intuitive idea of mixup of Han characters for the Chinese, Japaense or Korean version of a game or software, it's like ь is diplayed as b or а displayed a for languages using the cyrillic alphabet or the other way around for those using the latin script.

[Albert Wei @StrayAlbert]

@thocpodcast Personally I prefer keeping the English name Mandarin to 官话 and calling 普通话 putonghua in English

[Albert Wei @StrayAlbert]

@wuerbangbang @hsn8086xe 噷

[Relic Abyss ✨EA OUT NOW!✨ @RelicAbyss]

Warning to all indie game devs, localizers, voice actors, or even content creators!

Our Korean localizer, Boa Eum, had her google & discord accounts hacked yesterday. It happened because she downloaded a "game" that had malware that took her information after she played it.

Her gmail and discord got hijacked even though she had 2FA enabled.

Please be careful of sudden sketchy messages even from your friends asking you to play their game. As they might be compromised.

Download only from official sites and not directly from a google drive or any other cloud storage. And always run a virus scan before opening anything. Didn't know this could happen to one of our team mates. But it did. So please take care out there.

Boa is our most hard working Localizer and it sucks that this had to happen to her.

I think something similar happened to @SayuriArtsy too. Also tagging @TheRoyalSkies since he made a very informative video about it.

I think the perpetrator is still circulating around the indie dev scene. And it sucks so much since us indies don't have much going on for us now we also have to deal with this thing.

Please share to all of your friends who might not know about this modus operandi.

[Albert Wei @StrayAlbert]

@xing55169356 中文超长前置修饰语感觉是受了翻译的影响，个人感觉更自然的语序是“我在酒店对面那家店里看到一套衣服，想去试一下”之类的