𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐝 💫 Game localizers

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Featuring the epic stations of @tamslator.bsky.social, @narfius.bsky.social, @cmilner.bsky.social and Heleen 🤍

(More could come later 👀)

This is where we indie localize 🤍💫

Storebound on Steam A 1-3 co-op horror game. Play as ordinary shoppers trapped in an accursed megastore. Find the exit together at all costs before the employees catch you.

Episodes 3 & 4 of Storebound are releasing today as a FREE addition to the Early Access 👀

Plus, you can fight the horrors in the store in no less than 13 languages, localized by your favorite shoppers from the Void 🤍 💫 Grab one or two friends and dive in!

Hi @rawfury.bsky.social & @esotericebb.bsky.social 👋

Just saying but there's a team of game localizers that are *extremely* excited for this game and would love to talk to you about it 🤍

(it's us)

(we even have a linguist who wrote about translating Terry Pratchett & humour in Fantasy)

(hi)

Save 10% on Mistpaw Ravine on Steam The witches are gone. Only their cats remain. Make a new home for them in this feline city-builder. Keep your cats fed and happy, clean their litter box, and give them a cozy life in a world ravaged b...

store.steampowered.com/app/3735490/...

Pieced Together on Steam Pieced Together is a cozy scrapbooking game that takes you on a heartfelt journey about friendship and getting older. Sort items, solve gentle puzzles, and decorate the scrapbook as you uncover the st...

store.steampowered.com/app/2891370/...

Using this #WishlistWednesday to shed light on the indie games we have in our loc wishlist - and that are releasing this week✨

📑 Pieced Together by @glowfroggames.bsky.social (launching March 6th!)
🐈 Mistpaw Ravine by @encifer.bsky.social (launching today!!)

Two cozy gems we cannot wait to play🤍

Congrats! 😻

AI does not "assist" translators, it just makes their work harder, brings down the quality, and impacts their pay. 😭

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HYPNOS on Steam HYPNOS is a first-person adventure and exploration game, set in a lovecraftian megastructure fever dream. Enter the Nameless City at the edge of Dreams. Follow the trail into the shadow of the Holy Mo...

store.steampowered.com/app/2861210/...

How Many Dudes? on Steam A dude-builder roguelike where you recruit an army of dudes to fight ridiculous battles. How many dudes does it take to beat up a gorilla? A thousand toddlers? A horse-sized duck? A GOD? Enter your Du...

store.steampowered.com/app/3934270/...

Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts on Steam Make and share the most beautiful and bizarre medieval art imaginable! Manage and grow your manuscript workshop by illustrating manuscripts, using friendly tools and a massive range of drag-and-drop a...

store.steampowered.com/app/3119540/...

SpeedRunners 2: King of Speed on Steam The ultimate competitive platformer is back! Outrun, outjump, and outsmart your rivals in cutthroat online/local races, now up to 8 players online. Master the movement, learn meticulously designed map...

store.steampowered.com/app/3183760/...

4 games we worked on that deserve your attention this #SteamNextFest!

💨 Speedrunners 2
🪶 Scriptorium @yazagames.com
🧔‍♂️ How many dudes @bscotch.net
💤 Hypnos @redlockstudio.bsky.social
(Steam links below)

What are YOUR discoveries this Next Fest? 👀

How could this #BlackHistoryMonth end without us recommending the amazing Relooted by @nyamakop.co.za?

A super fun "run and heist" platformer in which you'll reclaim African artifacts from Western museums, and learn about their history along the way. A great & important game 💎

#SaturdayVoidRec💫

Y E S 🙌🙌🙌

#BlackHistoryMonth ⬇️

Ok wow, that looks EPIC.

(Would love to translate such a cathartic game - just saying 🤍)

(Picture credit: Mike Kai Chen)

Papers If you’re looking for some of my work that is not listed here, please just get in touch! firstname DOT lastname AT berkeley DOT edu. Here are links to some of my selected publications.  …

Her work focuses on "how people use linguistic variation to perform and construct their social identities" & understanding identities through differences in intonation and voice quality.

If you're interested in sociophonetics, her website is a goldmine: nicolerholliday.wordpress.com/research/

For our last post in this series, we'd like to give a shoutout to someone you can go follow right away: Nicole Holliday aka @mixedlinguist.bsky.social ✨️

She specializes in sociophonetics and speech prosody, among lots of other fascinating topics 💡 👇️
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackLinguists

Mistpaw Ravine on Steam The witches are gone. Only their cats remain. Make a new home for them in this feline city-builder. Keep your cats fed and happy, clean their litter box, and give them a cozy life in a world ravaged b...

And in another style, this beauty by @encifer.bsky.social 😻
store.steampowered.com/app/3735490/...

For us there's this one:
bsky.app/profile/redl...

The Steam Next Fest is a recurring wishlist paradise.

Fellow translators, what's on your radar? 👀

To learn more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salikok...

Who's going to read his work on languages as viruses? 👀

His work tackles the role of colonization & globalization in shaping linguistic diversity - for instance, why European colonial languages speciated into divergent varieties like creoles.

Mufwene also founded the Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact series 📑

What's fascinating about Mufwene's approach: he draws analogies between language and biological evolution.

For him, languages undergo changes similarly to viruses, including dependence on the activities of their hosts, competition & selection, which can facilitate spread or cause extinction.🦠

Yup, it's still #BlackHistoryMonth!

For this #BlackLinguists showcase, please meet Salikoko Mufwene.

Born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he is an awarded professor at the University of Chicago. His work focuses on creole studies, language evolution & vitality, and African linguistics.