English-to-Vietnamese Translator
A shout-out to an English-to-Vietnamese translator to join our localization team! You're passionate about video and board games and have proven experience in translating narrative texts and literary/game translation or writing.
The responsibilities would include:
Translating in-game content (dialogues, descriptions, UI) and game marketing materials from English into Vietnamese. No use of machine or AI translation is allowed!
Ensuring proper style, tone, clarity, accuracy, grammar, consistency, and tag alignment.
Occasionally, proofreading your colleague's translation.
Requirements:
English: fluent proficiency.
Vietnamese: native proficiency.
Experience in writing and editing narrative texts in Vietnamese.
Understanding of video game terminology, genres, and gameplay mechanics, earned by at least a decade of gaming experience.
Basic understanding of tags and coding.
Experience with MemoQ.
Meticulous, scrupulous attention to detail.
Ability to handle tight deadlines without panic.
Sense of humor and the ability to retain humor and relatability in translated jokes and puns.
Not required but would be great:
If you speak more than two languages...
...and have worked as part of a game development team and know how game development works.
We'd really love to see your portfolio if you have it.
What we offer:
Payments according to your per word / hour rate.
A chance to work on diverse games for PC and consoles. Point of reference: https://www.riotloc.com/games
A passionate global team of legendary translators and developers.
This is a part-time freelance role.
An unpaid test assignment will be required. Please note: a completion time is set at two hours.
Disclaimer: We'll be excited to hear from you. But please bear with us: even though we do aim to respond to all candidates, the number of applications is pretty high, so it may take us some time to get back to you. Your patience means a lot. Also, please note that we may not be able to respond to requests that fall outside specified language pairs, recurrent requests, or those that have been filed incorrectly. Thank you for understanding!