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English to Chinese: About My Translation Principles Detailed field: Gaming/Video-games/E-sports
Source text - English In my translation workflow, three basic principles/priorities are involved.
Accuracy.
Not only present the actual meaning of the objects, but also use the most background suitable translation. For instance, sentences in Satisfactory, would be likely translated into those contents you can see in operation manuals or reference books, cause you're playing as an employee who work for Fiscit.
Readable.
Reading consumes patience and energy, no offense to those story-based games. I will keep translations as brief as possible.
Familiarity.
This might not common for non-indie games, game-play contents are not completed for most indie games which have longer develop period. Translation might be taken part in by multi hands. Even a string missed it accrue translation, changing easily could lead to confusion for early access players who may also be huge fans or UGC providers. Therefore, balancing is the necessary job.
Translation - Chinese 在我的翻译工作流程中，会涉及三个基本原则/优先级。
准确性
不仅需要表达对象的基本含义，同时也要考虑到对象的背景适应性。打个比方，在Satisfactory中，语句和词组都会更加偏向翻译为说明书或操作指南之类的风格，因为你扮演的角色是一名被Fiscit公司雇佣的员工。
易读性
阅读是一件消耗耐性和精力的事情，这里无意冒犯文字类游戏。我更喜欢尽可能把翻译文本保持简练。
习惯性
这点在独立游戏外比较少见，对于独立游戏来说，游戏内容一开始并不是尽善尽美，开发周期也更长，因此翻译内容也可能被多次接手。而对于熟悉了原先翻译文本的玩家，即使文本没有准确翻译，轻易变更翻译内容也可能会直接冲击玩家群体，导致这一批忠实玩家和内容作者概念混淆。因此，权衡习惯性和准确性就是一项必要的工作。
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Years of experience: 6. Registered at ProZ.com: Aug 2022.
Acting as indie game developer for about four years, familiar with various Chinese and English communication tones and circumstances.
Vedio game translation projects are my favor, expecially for SIM, RPG.
Localization, to me, is like symphony. You get the original strings as music score, yet it can be heard so differently with different languages as instruments. My job is to play it well and harmoniously.
Keywords: games, video games, indie games, simulator, RPG, localization, low price, Chinese, Simplied Chinese
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