The Hotel of Madness is a board game openly inspired by The Shining. Translating it while keeping all of its subtleties and hints will allow you to show your attention to details and creative writing skills. Grandpa is an interactive story about Emi and her Grandfather trying to find his hat. Character limits, humor and puns will give translators a good run for their money.

In the game, the player takes the role of the editor of a newspaper torn between personal opposition to the government and threats to the lives of the editor’s wife and children if the editor doesn’t generate loyalty among the population. The Republia Times is an indie game created by Lucas Pope, released in April 2012. The translatable file is in the bin/locale/ folder The future of the contest is on standby at the moment, but you can still download and translate the games that were shared during previous editions.Īll translation packages for previous LocJAMs are available on the IGDA LocSIG’s GitHub repository.

A short open source game in English is published on the official site and everyone has a couple of weeks to submit their translations. LocJAM is (was?) an online contest for game translators. I am planning to update this page regularly with new packages ready to be translated as well as links to other useful resources. I have also put together a number of tips to help you find small translation projects and gain that all-too-important mileage in the localization industry. To help you with this, I have a gathered a list of games you can freely translate right now and add to your samples. One solution can be to build your own portfolio of sample translations & projects. Everybody wants you to be experienced before sending you projects, but you need to work on translation projects to gain experience. Getting started as a professional game translator is a bit of a catch-22 situation.

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