Si alguien está por tierras inglesas durante el mes de Noviembre quizá le interese pasarse por este taller de localización de videojuegos impartido en la Universidad de Westminster el próximo día 18. En la Web no aparece el nombre del profesor, una pena.
Video games localisation workshop
Date: 18 November, 2009 (All day)
Type: Workshop
Location: The University of Westminster
Programme
Do you enjoy playing computer games? Are you studying languages? If so, this workshop on video games localisation might be right up your street.
To find out more about what it means to be a games localiser, come to our half-day workshop.
It will run from 12.30 to 3.30 pm on 18th November 2009 at the University of Westminster. There are 25 places available on this workshop, which is open to Y12 students only.
A light lunch will be served.
Programme
The programme for the day will include:
• Welcome and questions about languages being learned and spoken, experience of playing games in English and other languages, and favourite games.
• Introduction to the concept of video games localisation: what it is, the state of the industry, the people involved and the work opportunities in the industry for people with language skills.
• Brief explanation about what being a video games localiser entails, and the sort of challenges that localisers face.
• Demonstration of badly localised games, and of successfully localised ones, so that you can observe the impact this has on the players and how it can affect sales.
• Completion of simple exercises on games localisation so that you can practise how to solve the challenges mentioned above, including translation of simple strings into English, or another target language, to get an idea of issues such as concatenation, lack of context, use of placeholders and variables, etc.
• Conclusion with a final discussion of the challenges encountered, and the creative solutions produced, by each participant.
Please contact Capital L’s Project Manager, Renata Albuquerque, on ra40@soas.ac.uk
Más información aquí.
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