{"id":977,"date":"2016-05-04T19:53:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T00:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=977"},"modified":"2017-03-26T19:54:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T00:54:40","slug":"found-in-translation-the-risks-and-rewards-of-video-game-localization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=977","title":{"rendered":"Found in Translation: The Risks and Rewards of Video Game Localization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/electronics.howstuffworks.com\/tech\/video-game-localization.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/0\/03\/Aybabtu.png\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>Video game localization has come a long way since a\u00a0sub-par port of <em>Zero Wing<\/em>\u00a0gave us the classic\u00a0&#8220;All Your Base are Belong to Us&#8221; meme. As \u00a0game companies have gone international, and as their products have ballooned from small-batch text-and-sprite diversions to interactive blockbusters, the industry\u00a0that makes those games accessible to other cultures has done its best to keep pace \u2013 despite too often being treated as\u00a0an afterthought by game companies .<\/p>\n<p>Find out how this process has evolved from basic text translation to fully embrace\u00a0cultural norms, preferences and taboos as I explain &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/electronics.howstuffworks.com\/tech\/video-game-localization.htm\" target=\"_blank\">How Video Game Localization Works<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video game localization has come a long way since a\u00a0sub-par port of Zero Wing\u00a0gave us the classic\u00a0&#8220;All Your Base are Belong to Us&#8221; meme. As \u00a0game companies have gone international, and as their products have ballooned from small-batch text-and-sprite diversions to interactive blockbusters, the industry\u00a0that makes those games accessible to other cultures has done its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=977\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Found in Translation: The Risks and Rewards of Video Game Localization<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,76,12,63,4,20,415,64,13,207,90],"tags":[1124,16,1123],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-computing","category-consumer","category-culture","category-history","category-internet","category-psychology","category-religion","category-technology","category-weird","category-writing","tag-culturalization","tag-economics","tag-meme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}