Exploring The Application Of Search Engine In Video Game Translation

The coming of digital age brings the speed developments of digitalentertainment, and video game is one of the star industries. The rapid growth of videogames leads the prosperity of localization industry. The global game publisherattaches great importance to China market, and translation plays a critical role invideo game development, which is why study on video game translation is urgent andimportant.The fundamental factors of video game design play an important role in thetranslation. As the key factor, gameplay has priority over other factors and should beconsidered seriously during the translation. The author finds the four scopes of videogames texts corresponding with the four levels of gameplay, and suggests the relevantprinciples of translation. In short, the translation should be easy to understand, shoulddistinguish and reflect the genre features of a game, should express the gameplayelements, and should express the language characteristics.According to the definition of video games, we can see that its prosperitydepends on the development of internet. Search engine is the most direct way ofobtaining information from the internet. So the author chooses search engine as theassisting tool of video game translation. Search engine can be divided into threecategories: full-text search engine, vertical search engine and meta search engine.Focusing on the translation activity in video game localization, this thesissummarizes the language characteristics and the difficulties of video game translation,and focuses on the application of search engine in video game translations. A casestudy is done on the translation of game War Spear, through which the authorelaborates the specific applications of search engine in video game translation andconcludes that search engine is a useful tool in video game translation.