In-Game Text Design Quality of Russian Fan Localisation: The Case Study of Undertale

Diplôme Master In-Game Text Design Quality of Russian Fan Localisation: The Case Study of Undertale eng 2022 author Barchenko Maria 941738 director Morado Vazquez Lucia 0000-0002-0834-0734 792640 With the rise of popularity of video games, their localisation has also become a highly discussed question. However, from the academic point of view, certain countries are falling behind colleagues in terms of number of conducted studies, including Russia. The present dissertation aims to contribute to research on the topic of Russian video game localisation, in particular, linguistic versions made by fan communities. Using quantitative analysis of a case study of the indie video game Undertale, the dissertation analyses the quality of fan localisation of in-game text design using the QT21 Translation Quality Assessment (TQA) metric on a monolingual corpus of screenshots. The results show that the fan localisers were able to produce a high-quality Russian version of the video game in terms of in-game text design, making certain mistakes which can be corrected after conducting proper linguistic quality assurance. Localisation Video games Video game localisation Fan localisation Russia Undertale Quality assurance Translation quality assessment TQA QT21 In-game text Design Evaluation Dewey 410.2 Maîtrise universitaire en traitement informatique multilingue 112 Département de traitement informatique multilingue 92 false 6b737a47-dc15-4d0a-a11f-b4a265b25e30 Master thesis Public ThesisBarchenkoMaria.pdf 1817965 application/pdf openAccess Faculté de traduction et d'interprétation / Département de traitement informatique multilingue

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Barchenko, Maria