As CAT tools e outros recursos no processo de localização de jogos digitais: O caso de Little Goody Two Shoes

Abstract

The current market of digital games is not only responsible for billions (Newzoo, 2024) but has also made localization (also known as game localization), regarding both linguistic and cultural adaptations, essential to the success of developers and publishers and immersion for players around the world. To this end, games are frequently tailor-made during their development to be localized without tampering with their software and/or hardware in damaging ways. Besides these preparations, game loc is regularly done through CAT tools, according to Rivas Ginel (2022)’s research. To better and more precisely understand how these tools help translators, this study aims to explore and adopt the following steps: text assets extraction, which will be suited for the CAT tool memoQ, translation of those same texts and reinsertion of the translated texts in the game. This research was done alongside two other researchers and undergraduate students, Gabriel Casto Cunha and Sabrina Ananda de Souza Neves, both of whom have also made their respective and specific analysis. For the purposes of this study, the first night (or chapter) of the RPG Little Goody Two Shoes (LGTS), released in 2023, was chosen. The text was extracted via the open code asset bundles extraction and editing tool: UABEA. The strings extracted were rearranged in Excel, to better suit memoQ 11.4. During translation, resources such as translation memories and glossaries were used for a faster process and less “handiwork” but also opened a new dimension of teamwork by being shared among each translator. Reinsertion was not possible through simple copy and paste in UABEA’s UI, therefore a more manual approach, with individual substitutions of each string by their respective translation, was taken. Lastly, the game was played with the Brazilian Portuguese translation for quality assurance, where quirks were found in the way LGTS presents texts. Parts of the text are also deserving of special attention from the translator.