Portfolio

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Asana

I was the core member of the Portuguese translation team for Asana, a work management platform trusted by Google, Amazon, Uber, and other enterprise clients.

Role: Translator (core member)

Duration: 1 year

Translated words: 258K

Client: Asana via iMachinary

CONTENT

• Slogans
• Brochures
• Subtitles for promotional campaigns
• Customer newsletters (B2B)
• Email sequences (B2B)
• Announcements
• Web copy
• SEO blog posts
• Forum posts by Community Managers (B2B)
• Automated flows (forms, chatbots, surveys)
• Knowledge base
• Web and mobile app strings

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Gather

Role: Editor

Duration: 1 year (ongoing)

Edited words: 53K

Client: iMachinary

HIGHLIGHTS

• Created a style guide with standards for the brand’s tone & style in Portuguese, as well as conventions for capitalization, gender neutrality, number formats, and more.
• Populated and maintained a glossary with 200 terms.

CONTENT

• Sales page
• Web app
• Knowledge base
• Automated flows

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Kenshi 2 (TBA)

Among the many factors that make Kenshi 2 a unique project is having only one translator per language. This helps to ensure full creative alignment between localization and game development.

Each linguist owns the entire localization workflow in their respective language, from creating style guides and glossaries to translating, editing, and testing content.

Technical challenges involve using a custom dialogue application to set up word swaps according to in-game conditions.

Dialogue is a prominent feature of the Kenshi series. The script has a rich linguistic variety to convey the unique mannerisms of the game’s characters and communities.

Role: Translator, Editor, and Tester

Genre: RPG/RTS/Survival hybrid

Duration: ~2 years (ongoing)

Word count: TBA

Client: Lo-Fi Games

CONTENT

• Dialogue lines
• UI strings
• Announcements

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AAA Game series (Grand Strategy)

I oversaw the linguistic quality of this ambitious PC game series in the grand strategy genre.

Role: Lead Editor

Genre: AAA Grand Strategy

Duration: 6 years

Edited words: 1.9 M

Translated words: 400K

Client: Altagram via Locsmiths

HIGHLIGHTS

• 6 published games + at least 30 DLCs.
• Created guidelines for the speech style of five major races in a fantasy setting.
• Maintained glossaries totaling 4,000 terms.
• Coordinated terminology and style decisions of a team of 10+ linguists.
• Performed LQA rounds to ensure terminology consistency across single files with over 300K words.
• Validated linguistic suggestions by partners from the buyer side.

CONTENT

• In-game text
• EULAs
• Subtitles for trailers, cinematics, and cutscenes
• Product copy
• Press releases
• Patch notes

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Watch Dogs: Legion (2020)

Watch Dogs: Legion features a “Play-As-Anyone” system, wherein a single dialogue line can have up to 20 variations depending on the speaker’s background. I translated at least 1/3 of the base script that would receive characterization by the translation team.

The work was carried out in a node-based dialogue editor. In addition to translating the script templates, my role involved expanding the dialogue trees with Portuguese-specific gender and number line variations.

Role:Translator and Proofreader

Genre:AAA Action-adventure

Duration:2.5 years

Translated words:112K

Proofread words: 67K

Client:Local Heroes Worldwide via Locsmiths

CONTENT

• Translation of base script within the publisher’s proprietary dialogue editor
• Translation of menus and system text
• Proofreading of characterized dialogue lines for dubbing

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Final Fantasy VII: Remake (2020)

I had the privilege to work on the remake of every millennial’s favorite game from the 90s. Expectations were high for the Portuguese (BR) localization, but the team nailed it. Reviews on Brazilian websites and the game’s Steam page have been nothing but praise.

Technical challenges involved working in a custom, high-security client-side CAT tool.

Role: Translator

Genre: AAA Action RPG

Translated words: ~25K

Client: Local Heroes Worldwide via Locsmiths

CONTENT

• System text
• Dialogue lines

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One State (2023)

One State is a rising star in the mobile life-sim genre. The game has undergone rapid expansion to world markets, recently adding more localized languages.

I was hired to overhaul the original Portuguese translation and bring it on par with the current state of the game. I also wrote a style guide and glossary to ensure the localization’s long-term quality.

Role: Editor

Genre: Life Simulation

Duration: 1 year (ongoing)

Edited words: 36K

Client: ChillBase

HIGHLIGHTS

• Created and maintained a 13-page style guide.
• Built a growing glossary of 170 terms so far.

CONTENT

• In-game text
• Product copy
• Patch notes

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Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster (2021)

The Final Fantasy games were never translated into Portuguese during the 8- and 16-bit eras. The first Portuguese localization came only in 2012-14 for the mobile releases of the cult classic series. However, its quality was found to be subpar for the 2021 re-release.

Our team localized all six games from scratch, maintaining the high standards set with Final Fantasy VII Remake released in the previous year. Fans could finally enjoy NES/SNES Final Fantasy in Portuguese with the quality they deserve.

Role: Translator

Genre: J-RPG

Translated words: 20K

Client: Local Heroes Worldwide via Locsmiths

CONTENT

• System text

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StarCraft: Remastered (2017)

I helped secure this client for my employers with an excellent performance in the language test. The Portuguese localization was handled by a small team of passionate Blizzard fans and garnered praise from client, fans, and press alike.

Role: Translator and Proofreader

Genre: RTS

Duration: 2 years

Translated words: 28K

Edited words: 22K

Client: Local Heroes Worldwide via Locsmiths

CONTENT

• Press kits
• Press releases
• Blog posts and articles
• Subtitles for trailers, cinematics, and cutscenes
• Product copy
• UI strings
• Dialogue lines for dubbing
• Manuals
• Patch notes

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Baldur’s Gate 3 (2023)

I helped lay the foundations for this 3-year, 2M-word project by extensively researching existing D&D translations. Terminology consistency varied wildly across Brazilian D&D versions, so the team toiled to determine the most accurate and/or popular option for each conflicting term.

I was tasked with part of the game’s UI, a complex system with a significant volume of on-screen information.

Role: Translator

Genre: AAA RPG

Duration: 8 months

Translated words: 41K

Client: Altagram via Locsmiths

CONTENT

• (Act 1) Journal entries, item descs, system strings, interface text, and companion lines.

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Dreams (2020)

Dreams is a gaming universe where players discover community-made games from around the world and can learn to make their own.

This was one of the most challenging, unconventional projects I’ve been assigned. It contained a vast library of game-creation tools and concepts that required high-precision term translation. As a proofreader, the toughest challenge was ensuring that the translation of one term wasn’t reused for another tool/concept.

Role: Proofreader

Genre: Game Creation Tool

Duration: ~2 years

Proofread words: 100K

Client: Local Heroes Worldwide via Locsmiths

CONTENT

• Complex game design mechanics
• Object names
• In-depth tutorials
• Subtitles