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Thorsten Distler
MA Translator + Certified Copywriter + Certified Fitness Trainer
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Basketball simulation

Translation and support for one of the world’s two largest multilingual basketball simulations for a global player in the video game industry (June 2014 to July 2016)

I was commissioned to translate in-game assets and marketing content such as blog posts, video commentaries and news for the website.

As a former university player and passionate amateur basketball player, I follow the German Basketball League BBL and major NBA games with great interest. I am also an avid spectator at local BBC Bayreuth and Brose Baskets games at the nearby Freak City in Bamberg. My translations naturally benefitted enormously from my basketball knowledge and familiarity with the jargon.

For confidentiality reasons, I can only name B2B projects completed for direct clients. Upon request, I can gladly provide details of further relevant projects.
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Cesira C., Language Project Lead
We have received the results of the QA performed on batch 2. I am happy to say that the result is excellent :)
Brendan Tinnelly, Project Manager
Hi Thorsten, I hope all is well. I’ve attached some review feedback for your work on Batch 01. Overall, feedback was very good.
Matthias Hues, Actor and Martial Ar...
Page for page, the wonderful fitness book that Thorsten translated is just as good as the English original, if not better! Greetings from Hollywood!
Hagen Hellwig, Editor-in-Chief
Hello Thorsten, It’s good to see you find new creative solutions. In such an environment, it’s really entertaining and inspiring to play and work with words.
Niamh Cunningham, Senior Service Ma...
Thanks for all that you do to make us look great.
Jan Fitschen, book author and Europ...
Hello Thorsten, I got my hands on the first copy of Wunderläuferland Kenia two days ago and must say that I am extremely pleased with it. Thank you ever so much for your fantastic ...
Silvia Ferrero, Project Manager
I have been working with Thorsten for over 5 years, and I'm very happy with his performance. He is very professional, reliable and always produces high-quality work.
Review in PC Action magazine (12/20...
Other arguments in favour of the game: the first-rate dubbing and admirable German translations.
Frank Haut, Managing Director
Hi everyone! Because we all worked together so successfully last year on the translations for Far Cry 3 and Assassin’s Creed 3, I would like to use the same team again this year.
Diana Díaz Montón, Project Manager...
By the way, we recorded the German videos this morning and the voice-over actor was quite impressed with the quality of the German text. So impressed, in fact, that he could not be...
Chris Wells, Service Unit Manager, ...
The feedback was very positive. Client very happy with what we sent over. You smashed it!
Heiko Hegewisch (Kundenbetreuung), ...
Thank you! Our client in Luxemburg was really happy!
Matthew Devine, Social Marketing Ma...
Many thanks for completing the translation. Our German site manager was impressed with your efforts.
Review on Computer Bild for Fallout...
Particularly the avatar dubbing is right up there with the best that the world of computer and video games currently has to offer. The developers have injected so much emotion into...
Mackenzie Martin, Project Manager a...
Today we had a couple of representatives from Apple visiting. They said that we're really good on the English and German localization front! I just wish we could clone you to have ...
Lizzy Untermann, Project Manager
Thanks a lot for a great job (as usual ;-) )!
Diana Díaz Montón, Project Manager...
I've known Thorsten for many years now, as in more than ten years, and it's always been a pleasure working with him. He is an excellent professional, highly reliable, on time and w...
Silvia Ferrero, Project Manager
First of all, I would like to say thank you very much for your work. The client has imported the files into the game already and they are very pleased with the results. :) They per...
Brigitte Berner, Localisation Vendo...
We did another quality check. The result is EXCELLENT! Well done, keep up the great work. :-)

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