Aino Lehtonen
Editor · Finnish / English
Former LQA lead on console and mobile titles; writes the process and tools notes and maintains the glossary.
About the notebook
Our Reviewers
RoosterPocketSundial is an independent publication written by people who have spent years reading other people's translations inside running games.
Why these notes exist
Most writing about game localization is either marketing from vendors or very short lists of funny mistranslations. Neither helps a producer plan a test pass, a translator understand what testers will flag, or a new QA lead write a usable checklist. We set out to write the reviewer's notebook we wished we had been given on our first project.
How we write
Every page follows one step of a real test pass and is built around errors it prevents. We describe common practice rather than any one company's internal process, cite public standards by name, and avoid presenting regional sensitivities as universal rules. When a fact changes, such as a rating board's policy, we update the page and keep the wording careful.
We are not affiliated with any publisher, platform holder or localization vendor, and we do not accept payment for mentions of tools.
The review desk
Mathilde Rousseau
French linguistic QA
Ten years of French testing on role-playing and strategy games; specialist in typography and register.
Kenji Arai
Japanese culturalization
Reviews honorific use and cultural content for Japanese releases and contributes to the culture desk.
Lucía Ferreira
Spanish / Portuguese QA
Covers Latin American and Iberian variants, ClassInd considerations and functional locale testing.