As everyone knows, a sense of humor is a topic of counterintuitive complexity and a strongly individual one. Words that are met with loud laughs and approbation during a house-party in a circle of closest friends, may often turn out to be embarrassing or inappropriate at a meeting with colleagues from work.
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The Polish game-making industry has recently come into a phase of very rapid development, creating a fertile ground for both the small studios sprouting up all around, which bring together the talents of a few amateur developers, and the enormous, organized staffs of creators which are responsible for the separate aspects of productions from the AAA genre (the “Triple-A” category refers to the works of the highest of budgets, both in terms of money spent on production and on promotion. Every other product not included in this kind is referred to as a “Category B” game).
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This art often proves to be uniquely hard to master, because it does not revolve only around the <a href=”https://www.atominium.com”>translation</a> of words, but also around making contact with the receiver of a certain message on more than the one plane of the text alone. Therefore it is necessary to include a human factor into the process of <a href=”https://www.atominium.com”>translation</a>, a factor which remains an elusive target for algorithms such as Google Translate or even more state-of-the-art engines based on machine learning.
Localization, the settling of products such as computer games into a certain culture, has a critical meaning for awakening a demand for a particular product outside of the borders of the country it has been made in. This also means an influence on the future of a studio which brings together developers, for nowadays it is nearly impossible to remain afloat by delivering products which lack at least an English language version.
The factors listed above, connected with the process of <a href=”https://www.atominium.com”>translation</a> of a text and localizing it, clearly show the necessity of selection of appropriately experienced and talented translators, who know both of the languages between which the <a href=”https://www.atominium.com”>translation</a> takes place precisely, along with cultural context and wordplay which they include.
(translation F. S.)
