10 Years Without a Reliable Translator? How This Japanese Studio Solved It with Alchemind AI

Situation:10-Year Struggle to Find Reliable RPG Translators

Stephen, the founder of a small Japanese game studio with fewer than 10 members, has over 10 years of experience in game development, primarily focused on narrative-driven RPGs.

For him, ensuring players from different languages experience the original soul of the game has always been a top priority.

In the past, his translation process relied on freelance translators or agencies, with quality checked by long-term proofediters. However, for over a decade, he struggled to find a stable solution due to several issues:

Translator skill and style varied widely—quality was unpredictable.
Many translators handled multiple projects simultaneously, delaying game releases.
Revision limits (usually three) meant unsatisfactory translations often had to be accepted.
For sequels, new translators needed time to study previous works, leading to inconsistencies in tone and style.

Finding a stable, high-quality solution that could preserve the game’s spirit became a 10-year challenge for his team.

Solution:“Understand First, Then Translate” with Alchemind AI

We met Stephen at an indie game expo, which became the starting point of our collaboration.

As AI technology became more widespread, Stephen was actively seeking AI-powered solutions. Our core philosophy—“Understand first, then translate”—perfectly aligned with his goal of preserving the soul of his games.

The project in question was a Japanese high school RPG targeting English-speaking markets. Several challenges emerged during translation:

Translation style: Should it lean toward Western-style open campus culture, or preserve the subtleties of Japanese school life?
Length control: Ensuring English text fit within UI and dialogue constraints.
Character voices: Maintaining distinct and consistent tones across characters.
Invented terminology: Ensuring consistency throughout the text.
Sensitive content: The script included gore, violence, and adult themes that traditional AI tools could not handle.

Alchemind AI’s strength lies in its ability to deeply analyze game scripts, extract key worldbuilding and character traits, and transform them into high-quality, stable, and consistent translations.

Alchemind AI’s workflow included:

Deep script analysis → Generated relationship maps and character profiles for voice consistency.
Automatic terminology extraction → Built a project-specific glossary for consistency.
Length-aware translation → Considered original text length to avoid UI issues.
Style-optimized models → Applied pre-trained translation styles (Western vs. Japanese).
Sensitive content handling → Used specialized models trained to process gore, violence, and adult content.

With this process, Alchemind AI, powered by curated corpora and specialized game localization models, efficiently completed the full-text translation while preserving the developer’s vision and intent.

Benefits：90% Faster, 70% Cheaper, and 3× More Flexible Localization

Stephen concluded that Alchemind AI’s translation quality matched, and in some cases even exceeded, professional translators. The measurable benefits included:

90% faster turnaround: 100,000-word script translated in just 5 days—10× faster than human translators.
70% lower costs: Traditional rates average USD 0.10/word, while Alchemind AI costs about USD 0.03/word (excluding proofreading).
Greater flexibility: Both Western-style and Japanese-style translations were provided at the start, giving developers more creative control.
3× more revision opportunities: Traditional translators capped at 3 revisions, while Alchemind AI offered at least 10 adjustments.
80% reduced proofreading burden: Proofreaders reported almost no corrections needed.
Sensitive content support: Elements like gore, violence, and adult content—normally requiring human handling—were accurately translated.

Through this collaboration, Alchemind AI solved Stephen’s decade-long problem and became his trusted long-term localization partner.

Conclusion：Empowering Indie Studios to Reach Global Players

Unlike generic AI tools, Alchemind AI delivers high-quality, stable, flexible, and consistent game localization results. This is made possible by our guiding principle: “Understand first, then translate.”

In today’s rapidly growing indie game market, we believe Alchemind AI will become a reliable partner for developers worldwide, helping them bring their games to global audiences.