Our Life: Beginnings and Always & “Nossa Vida: Começos e Sempres”: experiências tradutórias em localização de jogos de uma tradutora em formação

Abstract

The genre visual novel is proving to be more and more popular in the indie market. Due to its enormous versatility, the possibility of addressing several themes and to the fact that it is relatively simple in terms of development, since it has several intuitive technologies dedicated to its production, the genre grows more and more. This work aims to analyze and describe the translation process of some excerpts in the English-Brazilian Portuguese language pair of the visual novel "Our Life: Beginnings and Always", in order to discuss and reflect on how diverse text types may intertwine during the translation and how the translator's creative potential makes this professional one of the main agents in the process, given his or her ability to find solutions at linguistic, cultural and technological. In this research we embraced the concept of localization by Dunne, the definitions of verisimilitude effect by Britto, and the concept of commented translation by Zavaglia.