French VIDEO GAME SUBTITLING

Enhance the experience with your video game by taking advantage of our French video game subtitling services! By converting the visible text into French subtitles you creative a native feel and make your video game more authentic and immersive to the local players! We are aware with the specifics and limitations of video game subtitling (character limit, time stamps and other) and are here to provide you with superior French subtitling services that would impress your Customer and delight the French users!

French game subtitling practices

The way French subtitles are presented on the screen, both visually and structurally, has a significant impact on the player’s video game experience. While subtitling your video game in French we follow all the good industry practices, taking into consideration numerous factors like alphabet, font size, amount of text, choice of options, accuracy, start-to-finish approach, center alignment, adding text from the bottom, displaying the character names, transcribing important sounds, indicating sound origin, players’ reading speed, selecting user-friendly, readable fonts.

French game subtitling process

Your French video game subtitling starts with the narrative team who works on the scripts of the games spoken content (cinematic cut scenes, mission/level dialogue and the so-called “barks”- single lines spoken by characters as systemic reactions to game events or player actions). The script goes beyond dialogue and also describes the setting, daytime, additional directions for the actors etc. Some dialogue might be written by developers at first.

After the scripts are created, they now need to be subtitled in French and transferred into the game. Differing to other industries, video games use “event triggers” rather timecodes to synch the French subtitles. Game subtitles also often compete with other interface text. The interactive nature of video games, less time to read subtitles and control of the presentation rate by pressing a button by the player is also making French video game subtitling different than French subtitling in Broadcast TV or film.

Common issues in French game subtitling

• Tiny font size
• Super long lines
• Too much text in a subtitle
• Poor contrast
• Arbitrary line breaks
• No minimum gaps between French subtitles
• Wild presentation rate
• No features for deaf/ hard of hearing French players

Other common issues when subtitling video games in French include alphabet character and grammar errors, hard-to-read fonts, no minimum duration, out-of-sync subtitles with the audio, subtitles covering important parts of the interface, poor subtitle positioning (near the screen center or at the very edge), partially or entirely not subtitled video games.

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