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Game Localisation: A Process Overview And Translation Issues(การแปลวิดีโอเกม: ภาพรวมของกระบวนการและประเด็นศึกษาด้านการแปล), ฐานันดร วงศ์กิตติธร

Journal of Letters

At the present time, messages, information, and texts that need to be translated with the purposes of distribution and communication are drastically increasing both in form and number. From the traditional printed material translation to audio-visual media translation, now it is the era of multimedia translation: website and software localisation. This article aims to study the translation of a new type of interactive entertainment software, namely video game. Video game is a new marked entertainment media which has a significant influence, parallels to movie, on current media and entertainment industry; this fact encourages all other relevant parties to develop their …