An Interview about Community Localization in Slovakia

Abstract

This interview was originally conducted in order to have a closer look at the situation in Slovakia regarding community localization – fan translation of video games – in a bachelor's thesis in the spring of 2022. It was conducted by Milan Velecký, a student of the Translation Studies program at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava. The respondent was Mário Csaplár, who is also known under the nickname "MixerX" on the www.lokalizacie.sk website and who has dedicated many years to community localization. His community localization of the Grand Theft Auto III video game by Rockstar Games was the subject of research. For the purposes of this publication, questions that addressed the specific problems of the examined localization were cut out.