As title says, I really enjoyed translating games [English to Spanish] back in the day but with AI a lot of devs just started using it and now I can't find anyone who needs help with that, someone here needs help with that? Of course I'm not expecting a payment or something so if you're interested let me know! :D
People still need translators, especially for narration-heavy games where engaging text-driven storyline is key. My games do not have much text and I did not consider reaching the Spanish-speaking audience. But I ran an experiment using machine translation of https://programersi.itch.io/imagichess into Spanish. If you could review this and point out mistakes it would be very helpful.
The automatic translation of your game and all other games that uses AI or any similar alternative are "OK", ceirtainly there's a lot of words that could work better depending on the context and situation but it doesn't make it a wrong translation overall.
I think for VN I would still have something to do for any localization or sum but AI for anything that uses "formal" grammar and phrasing is fine.
As an example, I contacted only human translators to localize my game Return From the Tavern. So, yes game developers need translators especially for games that convey some humor.
Yeah I agree, probably I will still offer my help as a localization from now on instead of translation as ofc AI can't localize some local jokes nor give an actual personality to a character.
I gave up on even trying to offer my help the second I see it's already translated to Spanish or if it have the usual AI translation in 10+ languages...
