[Hobby] English to Polish localization for your indie game (Building portfolio)
Hey everyone,
I'm from Poland and I'm looking to help some indie devs localize their games into Polish. I'm trying to build up a solid portfolio from scratch right now, so I'm down to do this completely for free. All I'd ask for is a small shoutout in the credits if you end up using my translation.
I know a lot of devs just throw their text into AI tools or DeepL nowadays to save time, but honestly, raw machine translations completely break gaming context. AI doesn't actually play the game, so it constantly messes up character genders, ruins natural gaming slang, and translates UI buttons way too literally (which looks super weird to native players). On top of that, it can easily break your code variables or tokens if it doesn't recognize them
As a native speaker and a lifelong gamer, I'll manually go through your files and tweak everything so it sounds natural, keeps the original vibe of your game, and actually fits inside your UI boxes.
I can help you with pretty much anything: dialogues, UI text, item descriptions, menus, or even your Steam/itch.io store pages. It doesn't matter if you have a short game jam project, a horror, a visual novel, or a bigger RPG.
If you're skeptical or want to test things out first, just throw a quick 100-200 word sample at me. I'll translate it right away with a fast turnaround so you can check if you like the style and tone before we commit to anything.
Let me know if you want to open your game to Polish players. Feel free to shoot me a DM on Reddit or add me directly on Discord: 178._ (preferred)