Freelance Remote: Experienced Game Localization Expert (Chinese to English)

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August 14

🗽 New York – Remote

Although this job is listed in New York, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🌎 Translator / Interpreter

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AppComs Institute | Flexible Short Courses for Professionals

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Education • Training • Professional Services

AppComs Institute is an educational organization that offers flexible short courses designed specifically for professionals seeking to enhance their skills and knowledge in various fields. The institute focuses on providing accessible and practical learning solutions that cater to the busy schedules of working individuals, enabling them to achieve career advancement and personal growth.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2017

📚 Education

📋 Description

• Global leader in providing multilingual localisation solutions, specialising in digital interactive entertainment. • Completed hundreds of game localisation projects. • Relying on excellent localisation experts around the world, we provide localised works that meet the local cultural characteristics of each country. • We welcome more excellent localisation experts to join our global game localisation community to bring more joy to people around the world. • Responsibilities: Translate in-game text, marketing materials, and docs from Chinese to English (target 3K to 4k Chinese characters/day). • Proofread and polish localized content (dialogue, UI, item descriptions, tutorials), ensuring fluency, grammar, consistency, and cultural appropriateness (target 6k to 8k Chinese characters/day). • Work with the localization team to align content with gameplay and narrative, flag cultural sensitivities, and use CAT tools to maintain translation memories and glossaries.

🎯 Requirements

• Language: either native English with advanced Chinese (HSK6) or native Chinese with advanced English (IELTS 8.5 / CEFR C2). • 3+ years in game localization (Chinese to English) with CAT tool proficiency. • Strong cultural awareness of English-speaking markets, attention to detail, self-motivated, able to work remotely/asynchronously. • Passion for gaming and familiarity with gaming • Preferred: Experience with Leading Chinese game developers, interest in ACG, scifi/fantasy, history/mythology, and background in linguistics or creative writing; knowledge of localization workflows.

🏖️ Benefits

• Work completely remotely • Full immersion in engaging game content • Standardised translation process with online translation platform • On-time payment guarantee