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Elina Mâcon
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✒️English to French Translator
🎮Videogame Localisation Specialist
🧙🏻‍♀️One of the Warlocs
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Elina Mâcon @elinamacon.com · Nov 19
Hi! I believe I'm due for an introduction!

I’m Elina Mâcon, she/her
English to French game translator since 2018 🎮
Part of @thewarlocs.bsky.social since 2021 🧙‍♀️

I love video games (duh), reading (fantasy, SF), building plant legos, my cat Elska🐾

You can find my portfolio here: www.elinamacon.com 👋
elinamacon.com
Également disponible en français et bien d'autres langues grâce aux @thewarlocs.bsky.social !
J'ai adoré travailler sur la traduction et la LQA de cette petite pépite mi-jeu d'exploration, mi-conte hivernal, avec mes confrères @knari.bsky.social et Alexis Barroso 🐭
pinecreekgames.com Winter Burrow by Pine Creek Games @pinecreekgames.com · 12d
The big day has finally arrived for our favourite little mouse…

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🐭❄🪓❄🐾❄🍄❄🌲❄🍪
WINTER BURROW
IS OUT NOW
🥧❄🧣❄🪑❄🐾❄🐭❄✨
November 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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locdandloaded.net
"This use of GenAI is fine because VAs signed contracts to relinquish their rights".

Well yeah, have you seen what happens to those who don't want to sign off on this? Can you really call that consent when the alternative is losing (or never getting) a job?
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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thewarlocs.bsky.social
Let's celebrate the 1000xRESIST release with a poem!

Hekki ALLMO words we read
And boy did we scratch our head
But Sunset's dream now we know
Can only make you say: bravo!

Many thanks to @sunsetvisitor.studio for trusting us with this gem.

Hekki grace!
fellowtraveller.games Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · 21d
PRAISE THE ALLMOTHER, 1000xRESIST is out on Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5 🎮 @sunsetvisitor.studio

This sci-fi thriller is now available in Brazilian Portuguese, French, and Korean 🗣️

A warm HEKKI GRACE to new Sisters across the globe 🫂
💚 bit.ly/1KXRXbox
💙 bit.ly/1KXRPlayStat...
November 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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cyn-cedilla.bsky.social
Coordinating with the Warlocs on these localizations was an absolute dream! Highly recommend working with these incredible folks if you can!
November 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
elinamacon.com
Très fière d'avoir contribué à la traduction française de cette petite pépite ❤️
November 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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jkermarrec.bsky.social
Merci à @killylog1.bsky.social de m'avoir longuement laissé la parole dans le nouveau @jvlemag.com pour décrire la dégradation des conditions de travail dans la traduction de jeu vidéo à cause des délires autour de l'IA. J'ai pu placer ma meilleure punchline 🥊
Mais une manne pas encore à même de passer inaperçue, impliquant donc une étape supplémentaire, particulièrement cynique : « Les multinationales de la localisation ont trouvé la solution miracle, j’ai nommé la post-édition », explique Jérémie. « Au lieu de traduire, on nous demande de relire et corriger de la traduction automatique, en exigeant unefacturation deux à trois fois inférieure. Ça ne permet pas de vivre décemment, et qui plus est, c’est un pur cache-misère. Ici comme ailleurs, l’IA générative ne fonctionne que parce qu’il y a des petites mains sous-payées pour préserver les apparences. [...] C’est un travail abrutissant qui peut nécessiter des réécritures complètes. En gros, on retraduit souvent de zéro... au tarif de la correction. Au nom de quoi devrions-nous brader notre savoir-faire parce qu’un intermédiaire artificiel a une solution stupide à proposer ? »
November 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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origasky.bsky.social
Excusez-moi, parlez-vous Français ? Ça tombe bien parce que 1000xResist aussi ! En tout cas bientôt : c'est le 4 novembre que l'immense banger des canadiens de Sunset Visitor déploiera sa traduction. Hekki Grâce ?
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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clement-martin.fr
Une citation importante, en effet, dont voici la VF en avant-première

Valable là-bas comme ici, alors comme aujourd'hui.

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PÈRE Tu te souviens ? Dans les rues, par centaines de milliers, marchant au coude à coude… La plus grande manifestation de l'histoire de HK… Le monde entier nous a regardés. Et a entendu nos voix. Et vu notre sang couler. MÈRE Et alors ? PÈRE Alors si on s'était tus ? Si on ne s'était pas défendus ? Ils auraient dit « Ça a toujours été comme ça. » Ils auraient dit « C'est ce que voulait le peuple » Mais non. Ils ne peuvent plus dire ça. Parce que l'histoire se souviendra que nous avons résisté farouchement. Que nous avons lutté pour un avenir différent… jusqu'à n'en plus pouvoir. Cet héritage survit avec nous.
October 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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sunsetvisitor.studio
We're also so excited to reveal that additional localizations are on the way! The game’s text will be translated to Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, and French.

Hekki grace, thank you to our friends who speak those languages for their patience. 💙
October 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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sunsetvisitor.studio
You are a clone named Watcher, and you’ve made a grave mistake.

💠 Surface a 1,000-year-old lie from the cosmic shadows
💠 Discover the forbidden truths about your god
💠 Unravel a tapestry of familial pain, love and revolution

1000xRESIST is coming to PlayStation, Xbox, and Game Pass on November 4.
October 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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clement-martin.fr
Machine translation post-editing.
impavid.us 🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · Oct 9
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 12, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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mikerose.bsky.social
Omg, someone made Toasty from Little Rocket Lab with Lego

First time someone has Legoed one of our games haha
October 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
elinamacon.com
Beautiful illustration of Morgan & Pico ❤️

I had a blast working on the French localization of Little Rocket Lab (AKA the love child of Satisfactory and Stardew Valley), go play it now!
October 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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thewarlocs.bsky.social
Come on, constructive peeps! You heard what the Mike said! Grab your wrench and your gloves, and get building! 🤘🚀🤘
October 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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sunsetvisitor.studio
Hekki National Hair Day, sisters!

Hair to hair. 💙 Be sure to perform your functions meticulously today, just like Watcher does. 🫡
Watcher from 1000xRESIST saying, "Hair to hair, mother." Watcher from 1000xRESIST saying, "I really am..." Watcher from 1000xRESIST saying, "...just like you." Watcher from 1000xRESIST stabbing Iris. :'(
October 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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clement-martin.fr
Aujourd'hui, c'est la Saint-Jérôme, saint patron des traducteurices. Et ils sont un paquet à être en grève aujourd'hui pour protester contre la dégradation de nos conditions de travail, mais aussi contre l'usage de l'IA.

C'est l'occasion de partager ce billet : clement-martin.fr/fr/posts/et-...
Affiche rouge avec le slogan « translators are not traitors » et les mots « translators not AI » en surbrillance.
September 30, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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pinecreekgames.com
We can finally share that…

🐭❄🪓❄🐾❄🍄❄🥧❄✨
WINTER BURROW
RELEASES NOV 12
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September 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
elinamacon.com
It’s been a pleasure working on the French translation with @jaufrevf.bsky.social ❤️❄️
goldfirestudios.com Arctic Awakening - OUT NOW! @goldfirestudios.com · Sep 23
Huge shoutout to the folks over at Warlocs who worked on our German, French, Spanish and Simplified Chinese translations! They did such an amazing job, and it's been great seeing people from different parts of the world enjoying the game in their native languages!
thewarlocs.bsky.social Warlocs @thewarlocs.bsky.social · Sep 19
We're delighted to have 🛬crash-landed🛬 into this exciting and mysterious adventure from 🥇Goldfire🔥 Studios! Our skillful👨‍✈️pilots👩‍✈️ have worked on the German, French, Spanish, and Simplified Chinese translations, and they even managed to survive the 🧊cold❄️!
September 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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jentranslations.bsky.social
Just a reminder, but ChatGBT is NOT a search engine. It's a statistics based random word generator. The results you get are not guaranteed to be accurate. Please don't use it. (Same with Google's generated results.)
September 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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thewarlocs.bsky.social
We're delighted to have 🛬crash-landed🛬 into this exciting and mysterious adventure from 🥇Goldfire🔥 Studios! Our skillful👨‍✈️pilots👩‍✈️ have worked on the German, French, Spanish, and Simplified Chinese translations, and they even managed to survive the 🧊cold❄️!
goldfirestudios.com Arctic Awakening - OUT NOW! @goldfirestudios.com · Sep 18
❄️Arctic Awakening is OUT NOW!❄️

We started this journey 5+ years ago, and now it's your turn to complete the tale as you explore the Arctic wilderness with only a therapy bot by your side!

PC, Mac, Xbox X|S and PS5 (links in reply). Sharing helps us survive the cold! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev
September 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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clement-martin.fr
Si j'étais vous, j'achèterais ce jeu exceptionnel dont l'écriture remarquable n'est que l'une des grandes qualités, même si vous ne lisez pas bien l'anglais, car la VF arrive très bientôt…

Mais vous faites ce que vous voulez, hein ! (Faites-le.)
sunsetvisitor.studio 1000xRESIST | Available Now @sunsetvisitor.studio · Sep 15
🎊 We’re in the Fellow Traveller Publisher Sale starting today! 🎊

If you haven’t already checked out our game, it’s 30% off! It has:

‼️ a deadly pandemic
❌ no combat, just (emotionally destructive) vibes
❤️ generational trauma that will wreck your heart

Gogogo, get it while it’s cheap!
September 16, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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kocobe.fr
Je vais monter un tribunal spécial pour les personnes chez YouTube qui ont décrété que le doublage automatique par IA n'était pas désactivable côté utilisateur.
September 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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dylanvegac.bsky.social
Congratulations on the launch of Silksong, @teamcherry.bsky.social!

However, it is a shame to see that the care with which the game was crafted does not extend to the French localization, which is riddled with errors.

(Descriptions of the mistakes provided in the ALT text.) (1/3) #Silksong
Text in the game: "nous sommes déjà mit". This is a grammar error. The verb is incorrectly conjugated. The correct sentence should be "nous sommes déjà mis". Text in the game: "Mais je peux le vois à ta posture". This is a typo that results in a grammar mistake, as the verb "Voir" is mispelled. The correct sentence should be "Mais je peux le voir à ta posture". This error is probably due to having rephrased the sentence from "Mais je le vois à ta posture", which would have been correct. These types of errors are not uncommon, but are usually caught at the proofreading step. Text in the game: "Je bientôt partir". The verb is missing here. This sentence should be "Je vais bientôt partir" or maybe "Je dois bientôt partir". Text in the game: "Donne-moi les épines et je me mettrai tout mon talent à ton service." The sentence was clearly rephrased, but words from the first version were kept in, making it unintelligible. It should either be "et je mettrai tout mon talent à ton service" or "et je me mettrai à ton service". These types of errors are not uncommon, but are usually caught at the review step.
September 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
elinamacon.com
This is precisely what the translation industry has been doing for years…
bcmerchant.bsky.social Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Sep 2
This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.
angelayang.bsky.social angela yang @angelayang.bsky.social · Sep 2
The AI boom has created a new type of work: fixing botched AI. Designers are being hired to remake wonky AI art. Writers are asked to make ChatGPT’s writing sound more human. Even software developers are tasked with fixing buggy vibe coding.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
September 3, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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mossmouth.bsky.social
🍒 CHERRY RUSH has begun! 🍒

50 games, 50 cherries, 3 days of UFO 50 and fundraising for charity - organized by the community!

Come watch! cherry-rush.org
August 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM