Who we are and what we do
Past projects, the challenges of Cuphead and the future of translation in a quick interview we did for a trade portal
Alain Dellepiane (18)
Hi. I'm Alain Dellepiane, director at gloc.team, a veteran-led studio specializing in English to Italian video game localization.
You might know me from the locjam.org translation event, from my tweets about the Dilbertesque dynamics of game translation or perhaps as a trail running guide in Tokyo (trailrunning.tokyo).
If you have any questions, doubts, or feedback, feel free to email me at gloc@sent.at
Colpo di Stato - Translating history
How we translated and adapted the historical board game "Colpo di Stato" for English audiences
NeoCab - Translating the (Cyberpunk) Future
How we evolved the Italian language for a cyberpunk setting
FTL: Faster Than Light - Mind structures
How we adapted Subset Games' FTL: Faster Than Light and played with context to make effective names despite harsh space limits
Cuphead - Creating happy memories
What if your text plays nostalgic notes your audience just can't hear? Our experience adapting Cuphead
Ether One - A story of two eras
A bombastic sci-fi adventure becomes a touching personal story. A beautiful, forgotten game we loved to work on
The hardest test we ever made... was a simple Nintendo DS game
Sometimes there's more than meets the eye. Especially when dealing with a simple, little videogame
Dear Esther - Chasing ghosts
A game as elusive as its ghosts. The case of Dear Esther and its flawed Italian translation
Papers, Please: what the game told us
Unsurprisingly, Papers Please was one on our most unusual projects. Let's study its true nature through the notes of its author.
Papers, Please: the voice of Arstotzka
Finding the voice of the most important character in Papers Please: Arstotzka itself
Rules VS Play: the MDA framework
This academic paper is just five pages long but is a goldmine of tips about player's perception.
My career in 24 games
From San Andreas to Tokyo, the unlikely start of the career of Alain Dellepiane, founder of gloc.team
What is PEGI?
Pegi ratings explained: behind the scenes of the Pan European Game Information system
Subtitling techniques for videogames
What movies taught us about subtitles and writing
Crowdsourced translations in video-games: do they work?
Internet magic will not turn amateur lead into crowdsourced gold, but there is still room for community translations.
Darkstalkers Resurrection - Them's fighting words
The vibrant characters and moves of fighting games hide a surprising amount of depth. Let's see the core concepts.
Game translation in a sim-ship world
Working on large AAA game breaks many assumptions about translation. Let's see how.
Textual layers of game localization
Videogame texts cover multiple functions at once, from system messages to marketing calls. Let's summarize them.