{"id":36740,"date":"2014-11-12T08:03:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T12:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=36740"},"modified":"2014-11-12T08:04:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T12:04:26","slug":"job-voltage-inc-game-translation-remote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/12\/job-voltage-inc-game-translation-remote\/","title":{"rendered":"Job: Voltage, Inc. – Game Translation (Remote)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to JET alum Alyssa Hoey of Voltage for letting us know that her company is looking to hire again. See below for details.\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Posted\u00a0by\u00a0Jayme Tsutsuse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0(Kyoto<\/span><\/a>-fu, 2013-2014)<\/strong>, organizer of\u00a0Cross-Cultural Kansai<\/span><\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0Click here<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to join\u00a0the\u00a0JETwit Jobs Google Group<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and receive job listings even sooner by email.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Position<\/i><\/strong>:\u00a0Bi-Lingual English\/Japanese Advisor<\/span><\/em>
\nPosted by<\/b>: The Creative Group<\/em><\/span>
\nLocatio<\/i>n<\/em><\/strong>:\u00a0Remote<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Overview:<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Voltage, Inc. is looking to expand its lineup of translated games and is in need of Japanese to English translators who have experience translating scripts for video games. Voltage is a pioneer in the field of romance simulation apps for a female audience in Japan and continues to lead the industry.<\/p>\n

Japanese:\u00a0http:\/\/koi-game.voltage.co.jp\/<\/a><\/p>\n

English:\u00a0http:\/\/koi-game.voltage.co.jp\/romance\/index.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Details:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Translators will be provided with scripts from Voltage’s “Koi-game” series and will translate these into English. Emphasis will be on creating a script that will appeal to English-speaking users rather than creating a direct translation of the original script. Scripts should be translated into American English rather than British English.<\/p>\n

Requirements:<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Must have strong understanding of both Japanese and English grammar.<\/p>\n

– Experience translating scripts for video games or apps.<\/p>\n

– Japanese Language Proficiency Test N1 level or\u00a0equivalent reading comprehension\u00a0in Japanese.<\/p>\n

– Bonus points for experience in script writing.<\/p>\n

Responsibilities\/Possible Assignments:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Main Story: 17 chapters per character.<\/p>\n

2. Epilogue: 3 chapters per character.<\/p>\n

3. Sequel: 10 chapters per character.<\/p>\n

4. Spin off: Varies between games.<\/p>\n

There are about 5000 characters per script and there will be up to 200,000 to 250,000 characters to translate each month.<\/p>\n

Salary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

3 Cents per character.<\/p>\n

All references to “characters” refer to the Japanese characters in the original text.<\/p>\n

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If you are interested, please submit your resume and a translation sample to\u00a0l10n@voltage-ent.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Thanks to JET alum Alyssa Hoey of Voltage for letting us know that her company is looking to hire again. See below for details.\u00a0Posted\u00a0by\u00a0Jayme Tsutsuse\u00a0(Kyoto-fu, 2013-2014), organizer of\u00a0Cross-Cultural Kansai. \u00a0Click here\u00a0to join\u00a0the\u00a0JETwit Jobs Google Group\u00a0and receive job listings even sooner by email. Position:\u00a0Bi-Lingual English\/Japanese Advisor Posted by: The Creative Group Location:\u00a0Remote Overview: Voltage, Inc. is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-9yA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36742,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36740\/revisions\/36742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}