About Estyx Translations
INTRODUCTION
Estyx Translations was born out of the interest of a single person in becoming a Localisation Specialist. The power of a single mind without the constraints of a crowded group have allowed him to rapidly grow his brand, therefore leading to the current situation in which Estyx Translations is part of the game development process of highly-trusted gaming companies. His creator, Alberto Gómez Herrera, is currently the single member of the company; however, he values teamwork and he loves expanding his limits, and has therefore future plans to increase the size of the team once Estyx Translations overcomes the many steps towards a successful freelance professional service for gaming localisation. Currently, Estyx Translations is also associated with other translators that provide translations to Italian, Polish, and Brazilian Portuguese, having extended our scope of work languages.
ALBERTO GÓMEZ HERRERA
Alberto Gómez Herrera (13th February 1986) was born in Madrid (Spain), and currently holds a PhD and postdoctoral experience as a chemistry researcher. While he nowadays works as a Research Leader in a chemical company, he spends most of his free time dedicated to localisation and translation tasks.
After being an avid gamer during its childhood, he came back to playing videogames during the last decade, and motivated by visibilising less known gaming projects, he decided to offer his help to a small company with the Spanish localisation of one of their Android games: Runes Rebirth. After they accepted the offer, he decided to work to his best and learnt a lot about professional localisation for audiovisual contents, thus providing a final product which was highly interesting for the clients, CUTKEY Studio.
Since then, Alberto has offered himself to various gaming projects and has got various projects on a current and constant development, most of them on crowdsourced localisation websites. Within those projects, his great performance has allowed him to become main proofreader of his main language pair: English>Spanish (Spain), collaborating in 25 projects and with his translations being in apps and games ranging from GPS apps to 3rd person shooters, technical repair guides, adventure games and many more.
Alberto is currently developing his localisation skills further by completing professionalising courses and by being trained in various localisation softwares, further helping him to increase his performance and results. Up until now, he has collaborated/localised more than 30 games; these include from AAA games to indie projects, with different styles (RPGs, puzzle games…) and for different platforms (Steam, Google Play…).
COURSES
– «Localisation Essentials» (Udacity)
– «Introduction to Game Development» (Coursera)
– «Introduction to Game Localization» (Traduversia)
– «Translate and localize Videogames like a Professional» (Traduversia)
– «Tools for the Localization of Software, Webpages and Videogames» (Traduversia)
– «Correction, style and variations of the Spanish language» (Coursera)
GAMING PREFERENCES
– Preferred game types: RPGs, strategy games
– First good game he remembers playing: «The Dig» (LucasArts, 1995)
– Favourite RPG: «Baldur’s Gate» (Bioware, 1998)
– Favourite Strategy game: «Command and Conquer» saga
– Non-preferred game types: Sport games
HOW DO WE WORK
Working as a freelancer has many benefits but also its drawbacks. However, since we started with our professional activity, we haven’t stopped growing, improving our services, delivering a better quality final product and gaining more and more trust from our clients.
We currently have our office located in Warsaw (Poland), and we work part-time in Localisation tasks (although we can dedicate up to 6-8 hours per day for urgent tasks during definite periods of time). We can schedule any type of working session according to our client, from localisation to revision or discussions.
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About Estyx Translations
Estyx Translations was born out of the interest of a single person in becoming a Localisation Specialist. The power of a single mind without the constraints of a crowded group have allowed him to rapidly grow his brand, leading to the current situation in which Estyx Translations is part of the game development process of highly-trusted gaming companies.
His creator, Alberto Gómez Herrera, is currently the single member of the company; however, he values teamwork and he loves expanding his limits, and has therefore future plans to increase the size of the team once Estyx Translations overcomes the many steps towards a successful freelance professional service for gaming localisation.
ALBERTO GÓMEZ HERRERA
Alberto Gómez Herrera (13th February 1986) was born in Madrid (Spain), and currently holds a PhD and postdoctoral experience as a chemistry researcher. He nowadays fully dedicates his time to localisation and translation tasks.
After being an avid gamer during its childhood, he came back to playing videogames during the last decade, and motivated by visibilising games that were visually attractive, greatly entertaining and nevertheless of low visibility within the gaming market, he decided to offer his help to a small company with the Spanish localisation of one of their Android games: Runes Rebirth. With their «YES» to the project, Alberto decided to work to his best and learnt a lot about professional localisation for audiovisual contents, thus providing the best service to the mentioned game, rendering their creators, CUTKEY Studio, happy about the further improvement of the reach of their game.
Since then, Alberto has offered himself to various gaming projects and has got various projects on a current and constant development, most of them on crowdsourced localisation websites. Within those projects, his great performance has allowed him to become main proofreader of his main language pair: English>Spanish (Spain), collaborating in 25 projects and with his translations being in apps and games ranging from GPS apps to 3rd person shooters, technical repair guides, adventure games and many more.
Alberto is currently developing his localisation skills further by completing professionalising courses and by being trained in various localisation softwares, further helping him to increase his performance and results.
COURSES
– «Localisation Essentials» (Udacity)
– «Introduction to Game Development» (Coursera)
– «Introduction to Game Localization» (Traduversia)
– «Translate and localize Videogames like a Professional» (Traduversia)
– «Tools for the Localization of Software, Webpages and Videogames» (Traduversia)
– «Correction, style and variations of the Spanish language» (Coursera)
GAMING PREFERENCES
– Preferred game types: RPGs, strategy games
– First good game he remembers playing: «The Dig» (LucasArts, 1995)
– Favourite RPG: «Baldur’s Gate» (Bioware, 1998)
– Favourite Strategy game: «Command and Conquer» saga
– Non-preferred game types: Sport games
– Games he would love to play at some stage: «Horizon: Zero Dawn» (Guerrilla Games)