Braid Development

If you are fluent in a language, drop me a line.

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I’m looking for a handful of volunteer playtesters to help verify that the translations of Braid into various languages are doing a good job.

Braid is in the process of being translated right now. The translators seem like they know what they are doing, so I have no explicit reason to be worried about the quality of the translations. However, it would seem weird to me to just take the translated version of the game and put it out into the world without doing some kind of due diligence on the result (especially given how many badly-translated games we have all seen!)

So if you are fluent in one of the following languages, drop a note here with a way to contact you (it doesn’t have to be public; just let it go into moderation and I will read it). And I will set you up with a playtest copy of the game. I mean seriously fluent, i.e. speaks the language like a native; not, hey, I had a couple of years of that in school.

The languages are: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese (which I guess means Mandarin non-simplified?)

Thanks!

57 thoughts on “If you are fluent in a language, drop me a line.”

  8. Thank you; this is very helpful. The translations are not ready yet, but when they are, I will drop you guys a line. Now if only I can get people for the other few languages (Japanese and Korean especially!)

  10. I am fluent in spanish (I live in Puerto Rico), and I would be glad to help you with the translation and testing of Braid. My XBL gamertag is GI Jock. Sería un honor para mi poder ser parte del equipo de trabajo de Braid y lo haría de gratis 🙂

  12. Hi there, I’m from Rome, I’m a native italian speaker, and I would be really honored to help checking the italian translation and testing Braid, a game I’m checking the development since the dawn of time.
    You have my email, I hope you need my help.

    ciao!

  14. Hi. Native French speaker from Quebec, Canada, willing to help out if you need one more. I saw your speech at MIGS 2007 in Montreal and I’ve since been following the development of Braid. Cheers!

  15. Hey there, i already saw a portuguese person comment on here, let me know if you need any more help with that, I’m fluent too.

  18. I am a Spaniard and have translated profesionally: I know how difficult it can be some times to translate into Spanish that looks right from both sides of the Atlantic. Glad to help if I can.

  20. Hello 🙂
    I’m a native Portuguese speaker, and I have very good knowledge of the English language (which may help catching those little ‘lost in translation’ problems). If you need any help with the Portuguese version of the game, just let me know.

  24. If you need help with the Italian one, I’m willing to help. I live in Siena right now, and see that there havn’t been many responses for Italian, so I’d thought I’d offer.

  28. Hi,I was very impressed with Braid at GDC06. I’m native Japanese speaker. Send me e-mail if you need any help.

  32. Thanks everyone for all the help! As I mentioned before I will contact folks when we have the initial translations.

    With languages like Russian and Hungarian… what’s going on is we are going through Microsoft’s standard translation channels, and they have a set of languages that they usually do (which I think corresponds to the set of languages supported natively in the 360 dashboard). Later on we may translate into more languages, but .. it’s expensive. So for now we are doing just what we need to release on the 360, and will expand later.

  34. I can help: I live in Canada, but my mother tongue is Italian (I was born in Rome and live in Milan most of my life). I’ve been at GDC the last three years (just came back from 2008 edition this morning) and I have seen Braid grow.

  38. Another german that will gladly help, just in case 😉
    And thanks for the awsome lectures at the GDC, especially the Experimental Gameplay Sessions were a blast.

  42. More Portuguese speakers already than I would have expected, but they’re forgetting to mention if the Portuguese they speak/write is Brazilian or European 🙂

    (European here)

  43. Emm, I forgot to say that I don’t actually own a 360…
    So I can’t help if what you give is a copy of the game…
    heh, sorry… :]

  44. Hi,
    i can help with a HEBREW translation if there is an idea to make one (that would be so awsome since so little games have it). i took a whole year in the study of translation from english to hebrew so im sure ill do a good job, and ill defeneatly do it fast, any chance to playteest an awsome game right? (-;

    Thanks in advance and cant wait for more news,
    M5G

  45. My wife is a native Korean speaker who translates Manga into English. She’ll proofread for you if you like.

    Richard

  46. I’m a few months away from a major in Japanese, and I lived there for two years. Would love to help!

  47. I discovered this blog just now, so forgive me if this is too late to apply.
    Spanish is my main language and you can attest that from my blog. (I live in Argentina) So if you want real quality control at least in the Spanish department, drop me an email.

  48. Hi, just saw the screenshots for Braid on IGS and I really love them! I’m probably too late, but I’m a native Japanese speaker (born and raised there) and I translate video games into English and Japanese for a living. Would love to check the Japanese, as long as I can run the game on OSX!

  52. Hi, im a native Czech and Spanish speaker, i also speak very well in english, maybe i can help with the Czech translation.

  53. Hi, I’d like to help with the Italian translation for your new project, The Witness.
    Please, let me know if you still need an Italian translator (I already do this as a job!)

    Thanks, good luck and good work!

  54. I am a Turkish must be passed, and many do not know another language, and many Turks also want you to do not know the Turkish language support (Note: This text converted to English.) PLEASE…

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