Mind Your Language: How to Translate a Video Game and Why (emf2026)

Video Games are commonly in English, German, Japanese and many other languages.. but what about less spoken languages? Whilst I was working as the Lead Sound Designer on a AA game, I also ended up being the Welsh Language Lead on the project, with the help of a small team I chose the insane challenge of translating a AA video game into Welsh + Voice Acting with no prior experience in doing so and also re-learning the language at the same time, a task that I knew would be massive, but turned out to be even bigger than I thought. This talk unpacks the process of translating, casting and recording/editing dialogue for what would turn out to be the biggest video game to have ever been translated into Welsh with Voice Acting. This talk also goes into why more games should include smaller languages and why projects should consider more cultures. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026/80-mind-your-language-how-to-translate-a-video-game-and-why