Integrating real projects into video game localisation courses

Pablo Muñoz Sánchezpmstrad@gmail.com

The firstquestion

Are there any courses onvideo game localisation?

Well, not somany...

But they are verygood!

Like the one thatCarme teaches 

So whyinnovating?

Because there’s alwaysroom for improvement!

Carme’s course wasvery complete andmet my expectations

There was an introduction to video games

We studied thevideo game localisation process

We translated dialogues involving pirates

We translated menus and commands

We practiced characterisation in dialogues

We did exercises with variables and tags

And we learnt how to report bugs

BUT…

I missed something!

Because when you localize a video game,the best moment is when you see your text...

On screen!

When I localized

Before

And I wasvery happy!

So then I started thinking...

Romhacking allows themodification of old video games

I have published this...

And this...

I got it!

Why don’t we useromhacking to localize oldvideo games in class?

Students will be happy after seeingtheir translations on screen!

They will be more motivated!

Bringing romhacking to class will be easy...

With these tools!

Whaaat?

People don’t use these tools!

They are VERY complex...

I have the solution

We can use easy-to-useeditors for specific games

Like this one for Final Fantasy III

Or this one forThe Legend of Zelda

Let me prove this is real

So you can do it!

This was just an

There are more thingsto consider, but...

Integrating real projects into video game localisation courses

by Pablo Muñoz Sánchez on Dec 14, 2010

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