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Elina Mâcon

@elinamacon.com
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✒️English to French translator 🎮Video game localisation (TR/RV/LQA) 🧙🏻‍♀️One of @thewarlocs.bsky.social 🌐www.elinamacon.com

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Elina Mâcon @elinamacon.com · 04/06/2026
Snacktorio est disponible aujourd'hui, et en français ! 🥖 Une véritable petite pépite en pixel art qui conjugue automatisation🔧 et cuisine🍜 BON APPÉTIT ! Congrats for the release, @tngineers.bsky.social ! @jaufrevf.bsky.social and I had a lot of fun working on the French localization 💚
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𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐝 💫 Game localizers @fromthevoid.net · 07/05/2026
Attention please, we have an 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒆 for developers & publishers: Studio Fugu posted a comprehensive Localization Kit Guide to help teams manage the translation of their games and it's pretty awesome. A must read that should help everyone 📝👇 www.studio-fugu.com/blog-posts/v...
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Video Game Localization Kit: Your Ultimate Guide
Learn how a to build a Game Localization Kit (Lockit) and efficiently manage your translation workflow to make your global launch a success.
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Elina Mâcon @elinamacon.com · 06/05/2026
Just discovered this masterpiece from a French artist, check it out 🥰 www.kickstarter.com/projects/vas...
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Dream World - The Infinite Zoom Game
A narrative exploration through one endless drawing.
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🦇 Tam🦇 | She/her #TranslatorsInTheCredits @tamslator.eurosky.social · 31/03/2026
A general run down of what translating/localizing a videogame is (in most big agencies) 1. Have strings with no context and ID with numbers. 2. Have a query sheet to ask question that can be ignored. 3. The strings are scrambled and not in order. 4. No visuals (images, videos or game)
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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 10/02/2026
💃 1000xRESIST has passed 4500 Steam Reviews!! 💃 Thank you to everyone who has supported the game and spread the word. We're here because of you 🙏
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Orion Starbeard @orionstarbeard.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Discord is trying to add new AI features to their platform. They're asking people to fill out a survey on how they feel about AI and what "value" it would add to their platform. Please take a few minutes to fill it out and tell them to fuck off with AI. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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Warlocs @thewarlocs.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
From all of us at Warlocs, a very Happy New Year to you! May 2026 bring only good stuff, success and good health all around, more #TranslatorsInTheCredits than ever, more cool games to work on and play! Oh, and may that blasted AI bubble burst once and for all! Over and out! 🎤💥
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a group of people standing around a table with a child wearing a party hat
ALT: a group of people standing around a table with a child wearing a party hat
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Elina Mâcon @elinamacon.com · 01/01/2026
I'm joining the jury!
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Elina Mâcon @elinamacon.com · 29/12/2025
Look who's in the credits! Congrats, fellow @thewarlocs.bsky.social! It's been a pleasure working on the French translation of this little gem ✨ Believe it or not, this wasn't the first gem-collecting mole game I localized into French 🤭
Gemporium localization credits:
The Warlocs
Jaufré Vessiller Fonfreide - Localization Coordination
Concha Fernández Álvarez - European Spanish
Elina Mâcon - French
Fernanda R. Araújo - Brazilian Portuguese
Guido Bindi, Matías E. Desalvo - Latin American Spanish
Hong-gi "Lester" Lee - Korean
Simon Dehne - German
Arina Bedrina, Alexander Preymak - Russian
Raika Mitsuboshi - Traditional Chinese
Albert Wei - Simplified Chinese
Toki Okada - Japanese
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Jenn Odd @jentranslations.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
This is still my favourite article against slop machines. It's informative AND hilarious. ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-...
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I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity
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Olivier Bénis @olivierbenis.net · 07/12/2025
Le saviez-vous ? Pour la première fois, tous les jeux nommés aux Game Awards citent dans leurs crédits leurs équipes de traduction. Une petite victoire au cœur d'un long combat, articulé notamment autour du hashtag #TranslatorsInTheCredits. #TheGameAwards www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
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Longtemps maintenues dans l'ombre, les équipes de traduction de jeux vidéo gagnent petit à petit en visibilité
C'est une première : tous les nominés aux Game Awards 2025 (dont la cérémonie aura lieu le 11/12) citent dans leurs crédits l'intégralité de leurs équipes de traduction. L'aboutissement d'un long comb...
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🥭MANGO - Comms Closed @mgosketches.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
we're all thinking it
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🦇 Tam🦇 | She/her #TranslatorsInTheCredits @tamslator.eurosky.social · 26/11/2025
When an agency tells you that the "client doesn't credit" or that "they haven't asked" do not believe their lies.
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KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com · 25/11/2025
We're excited to announce YOUNG SUNS: a new narrative-rich co-op life sim set on Jupiter. Experience life in an optimistic future full of colorful characters. Play solo or with up to 3 friends. Visit planetoids, ruins, and stations. Craft and decorate. Help society heal. youtu.be/rVEWbp1FiKg?...
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KO_OP Game Reveal & Presentation
YouTube video by KO_OP
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Elina Mâcon @elinamacon.com · 12/11/2025
Également disponible en français et bien d'autres langues grâce aux @thewarlocs.bsky.social ! J'ai adoré travailler sur la traduction et la LQA de cette petite pépite mi-jeu d'exploration, mi-conte hivernal, avec mes confrères @knari.bsky.social et Alexis Barroso 🐭
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Lucile Danilov @locdandloaded.net · 11/11/2025
"This use of GenAI is fine because VAs signed contracts to relinquish their rights". Well yeah, have you seen what happens to those who don't want to sign off on this? Can you really call that consent when the alternative is losing (or never getting) a job?
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Warlocs @thewarlocs.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Let's celebrate the 1000xRESIST release with a poem! Hekki ALLMO words we read And boy did we scratch our head But Sunset's dream now we know Can only make you say: bravo! Many thanks to @sunsetvisitor.studio for trusting us with this gem. Hekki grace!
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Nicole @cyn-cedilla.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Coordinating with the Warlocs on these localizations was an absolute dream! Highly recommend working with these incredible folks if you can!
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Elina Mâcon @elinamacon.com · 04/11/2025
Très fière d'avoir contribué à la traduction française de cette petite pépite ❤️
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Jérémie Kermarrec @jkermarrec.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Merci à @killylog1.bsky.social de m'avoir longuement laissé la parole dans le nouveau @jvlemag.com pour décrire la dégradation des conditions de travail dans la traduction de jeu vidéo à cause des délires autour de l'IA. J'ai pu placer ma meilleure punchline 🥊
Mais une manne pas encore à même de passer inaperçue, impliquant donc une étape supplémentaire, particulièrement cynique : « Les multinationales de la localisation ont trouvé la solution miracle, j’ai nommé la post-édition », explique Jérémie. « Au lieu de traduire, on nous demande de relire et corriger de la traduction automatique, en exigeant unefacturation deux à trois fois inférieure. Ça ne permet pas de vivre décemment, et qui plus est, c’est un pur cache-misère. Ici comme ailleurs, l’IA générative ne fonctionne que parce qu’il y a des petites mains sous-payées pour préserver les apparences. [...] C’est un travail abrutissant qui peut nécessiter des réécritures complètes. En gros, on retraduit souvent de zéro... au tarif de la correction. Au nom de quoi devrions-nous brader notre savoir-faire parce qu’un intermédiaire artificiel a une solution stupide à proposer ? »
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ORIGAMI 💌 Média jeu vidéo... mais pas que ! @origami.ng · 03/11/2025
Excusez-moi, parlez-vous Français ? Ça tombe bien parce que 1000xResist aussi ! En tout cas bientôt : c'est le 4 novembre que l'immense banger des canadiens de Sunset Visitor déploiera sa traduction. Hekki Grâce ?
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Clément Martin @clement-martin.fr · 20/10/2025
Une citation importante, en effet, dont voici la VF en avant-première Valable là-bas comme ici, alors comme aujourd'hui. ✊
PÈRE
Tu te souviens ? Dans les rues, par centaines de milliers, marchant au coude à coude… La plus grande manifestation de l'histoire de HK… Le
monde entier nous a regardés. Et a entendu nos voix. Et vu notre sang couler.

MÈRE
Et alors ?

PÈRE
Alors si on s'était tus ? Si on ne s'était pas défendus ? Ils auraient dit « Ça a toujours été comme ça. » Ils auraient dit « C'est ce que voulait le
peuple » Mais non. Ils ne peuvent plus dire ça. Parce que l'histoire se souviendra que nous avons résisté farouchement. Que nous avons lutté pour un avenir différent… jusqu'à n'en plus pouvoir.

Cet héritage survit avec nous.
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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 15/10/2025
We're also so excited to reveal that additional localizations are on the way! The game’s text will be translated to Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, and French. Hekki grace, thank you to our friends who speak those languages for their patience. 💙
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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 15/10/2025
You are a clone named Watcher, and you’ve made a grave mistake. 💠 Surface a 1,000-year-old lie from the cosmic shadows 💠 Discover the forbidden truths about your god 💠 Unravel a tapestry of familial pain, love and revolution 1000xRESIST is coming to PlayStation, Xbox, and Game Pass on November 4.
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Clément Martin @clement-martin.fr · 12/10/2025
Machine translation post-editing.
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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Omg, someone made Toasty from Little Rocket Lab with Lego First time someone has Legoed one of our games haha
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Elina Mâcon @elinamacon.com · 08/10/2025
Beautiful illustration of Morgan & Pico ❤️ I had a blast working on the French localization of Little Rocket Lab (AKA the love child of Satisfactory and Stardew Valley), go play it now!
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Warlocs @thewarlocs.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Come on, constructive peeps! You heard what the Mike said! Grab your wrench and your gloves, and get building! 🤘🚀🤘
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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 01/10/2025
Hekki National Hair Day, sisters! Hair to hair. 💙 Be sure to perform your functions meticulously today, just like Watcher does. 🫡
Watcher from 1000xRESIST saying, "Hair to hair, mother."Watcher from 1000xRESIST saying, "I really am..."Watcher from 1000xRESIST saying, "...just like you."Watcher from 1000xRESIST stabbing Iris. :'(
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Clément Martin @clement-martin.fr · 30/09/2025
Aujourd'hui, c'est la Saint-Jérôme, saint patron des traducteurices. Et ils sont un paquet à être en grève aujourd'hui pour protester contre la dégradation de nos conditions de travail, mais aussi contre l'usage de l'IA. C'est l'occasion de partager ce billet : clement-martin.fr/fr/posts/et-...
Affiche rouge avec le slogan « translators are not traitors » et les mots « translators not AI » en surbrillance.
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Winter Burrow by Pine Creek Games @pinecreekgames.com · 25/09/2025
We can finally share that… 🐭❄🪓❄🐾❄🍄❄🥧❄✨ WINTER BURROW RELEASES NOV 12 🥧❄✨❄🐭❄🪓❄🐾❄🍄
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Elina Mâcon @elinamacon.com · 23/09/2025
It’s been a pleasure working on the French translation with @jaufrevf.bsky.social ❤️❄️
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Jenn Odd @jentranslations.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Just a reminder, but ChatGBT is NOT a search engine. It's a statistics based random word generator. The results you get are not guaranteed to be accurate. Please don't use it. (Same with Google's generated results.)
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Warlocs @thewarlocs.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
We're delighted to have 🛬crash-landed🛬 into this exciting and mysterious adventure from 🥇Goldfire🔥 Studios! Our skillful👨‍✈️pilots👩‍✈️ have worked on the German, French, Spanish, and Simplified Chinese translations, and they even managed to survive the 🧊cold❄️!
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Clément Martin @clement-martin.fr · 16/09/2025
Si j'étais vous, j'achèterais ce jeu exceptionnel dont l'écriture remarquable n'est que l'une des grandes qualités, même si vous ne lisez pas bien l'anglais, car la VF arrive très bientôt… Mais vous faites ce que vous voulez, hein ! (Faites-le.)
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Corentin Benoit-Gonin @kocobe.fr · 12/09/2025
Je vais monter un tribunal spécial pour les personnes chez YouTube qui ont décrété que le doublage automatique par IA n'était pas désactivable côté utilisateur.
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Dylan - Traductor de videojuegos (EN>FR) 🎮 @dylanvegac.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Congratulations on the launch of Silksong, @teamcherry.bsky.social! However, it is a shame to see that the care with which the game was crafted does not extend to the French localization, which is riddled with errors. (Descriptions of the mistakes provided in the ALT text.) (1/3) #Silksong
Text in the game: "nous sommes déjà mit". This is a grammar error. The verb is incorrectly conjugated. The correct sentence should be "nous sommes déjà mis".Text in the game: "Mais je peux le vois à ta posture". This is a typo that results in a grammar mistake, as the verb "Voir" is mispelled. The correct sentence should be "Mais je peux le voir à ta posture". This error is probably due to having rephrased the sentence from "Mais je le vois à ta posture", which would have been correct. These types of errors are not uncommon, but are usually caught at the proofreading step.Text in the game: "Je bientôt partir". The verb is missing here. This sentence should be "Je vais bientôt partir" or maybe "Je dois bientôt partir".Text in the game: "Donne-moi les épines et je me mettrai tout mon talent à ton service." The sentence was clearly rephrased, but words from the first version were kept in, making it unintelligible. It should either be "et je mettrai tout mon talent à ton service" or "et je me mettrai à ton service". These types of errors are not uncommon, but are usually caught at the review step.
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Elina Mâcon @elinamacon.com · 03/09/2025
This is precisely what the translation industry has been doing for years…
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Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
🍒 CHERRY RUSH has begun! 🍒 50 games, 50 cherries, 3 days of UFO 50 and fundraising for charity - organized by the community! Come watch! cherry-rush.org
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Elina Mâcon @elinamacon.com · 28/08/2025
👏👏👏 I wanted to select a quote, but there are just too many good ones. Just read the whole thing, I promise it's worth your time.
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Elina Mâcon @elinamacon.com · 26/08/2025
Également dizzponible en français, ainsi que Mudborne 🫶🐝🐸
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Elina Mâcon @elinamacon.com · 26/08/2025
Disponible en français 🌼🤗
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 23/08/2025
Also people keep asking me if I find AI translation helpful in my work and AI TRANSLATION IS NOWHERE NEAR COMMERCIAL QUALITY and NO I DON'T EDIT AI TRANSLATION BECAUSE IT'S MUCH FASTER FOR ME TO JUST DO THE ACTUAL TRANSLATION THAN EDIT CRAP because PAINTING CRAP WITH GOLD DOESN'T TURN CRAP INTO GOLD
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Okomotive @okomotive.ch · 21/08/2025
Herdling is OUT NOW! We’re stoked to finally invite you on this journey 🐐🦬🐏⛰️ Get the game now on Steam, Epic Game Store, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S or Game Pass, links below! We’ll give away 5 Steam keys among everyone who reposts this 🎉🎉🎉
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality. This is how AI is killing translation work:
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AI Killed My Job: Translators
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.
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GoldFire Studios (Arctic Awakening - OUT NOW) @goldfirestudios.com · 14/08/2025
We finally have a release date after 5+ years of development! 🥳 Arctic Awakening is coming SEPTEMBER 18 to Steam, Xbox Series X|S and PS5! ❤️ Wishlists and ❄️ shares help us thaw out the algorithm: store.steampowered.com/app/1275550/... #indiegame #gamedev
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Elina Mâcon @elinamacon.com · 08/08/2025
25 games to get to know me 🎮 I tried to make a somewhat logical order👾 topsters.org
Tiny Glade
Unpacking
Strange Horticulture
Stray
Satisfactory
Baldur's Gate III
Enshrouded
Valheim
V Rising
Lycans
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Monster Hunter Wilds
Monster Hunter: World - Iceborne
Horizon Zero Dawn
Horizon Forbidden West
Moonstone Island
Stardew Valley
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Overwatch
League of Legends
Dofus
Mario Kart DS
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 28/07/2025
If you’ve ever thought ‘I want a game in which…’ 💠 god is a teenage girl with generational trauma 💠 there is doomed yuri galore 💠 you’ll resist a 1000-year-old lie that shatters an entire society Then 1000xRESIST is waiting for you, 30% off until August 9. ⬇️ s.team/a/1675830/
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Concha Fernández @cfernandez.me · 17/07/2025
If anyone still thinks MT is somewhat decent for narrative games just because there's a ton of dialogue and descriptions, read this dissection by @katrinal10n.bsky.social of an AI-translated game. tl;dr: 👑context & culture👑 are kryptonite to machines. (Flashbacks to anime fansubs rushing releases)
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Lucile Danilov @locdandloaded.net · 15/07/2025
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