Translating Worlds
Crafting Lore

Yes. Projects can range from smaller individual assignments to complete books, games, or entire series. Long-term projects are especially welcome when a game world needs consistent linguistic support across a large body of text.

Rules must be precise and easy to understand, while lore and narrative passages need to retain their atmosphere. The goal is a German version that reads naturally while preserving the original rules, narrative voice, and play experience.

Structured glossaries and terminology lists can be created and maintained for larger projects. This keeps names, specialist terms, rule keywords, and recurring labels consistent across an entire game, series, or fictional world.

Proofreading focuses on spelling, grammar, punctuation, and formal consistency. Editing goes further, also considering style, clarity, reading flow, tone, and the overall effect of a text.

Yes. In addition to translation, editing, and proofreading, services available on request include Linguistic Quality Assurance (LQA), glossaries, terminology work, and linguistic reviews or assessments of existing texts.

Translation projects are generally calculated according to the word or character count of the English source text. The exact price depends on factors including text type, volume, complexity, file format, terminology requirements, and schedule. Once these points are clear, Robert provides an individual quote.

Proofreading is charged at €5 per standard page and editing at €8 per standard page. As defined by VG Wort, one standard page consists of 1,500 characters including spaces.

Language is alive and shapes who feels represented in stories and game worlds. I therefore aim for inclusive, unbiased language that still reads naturally. The most appropriate form of gender-inclusive language depends on the audience, setting, tone, and requirements of each project. I implement those choices consistently and with a sure sense of style, and I am happy to advise on suitable solutions. In translation, preserving the inclusive intent of the original is particularly important to me. The goal is not language that feels imposed, but language that includes people and belongs naturally within its world.

I SUPPORT REAL PEOPLE WHO CREATE ART. Art lives through experience, conviction, imagination, doubt, enthusiasm, and everything people bring to their work. AI can recognize patterns, reproduce content, and recombine material. But it cannot experience, feel, or dream for itself. That is why I do not use generative AI in my creative text work. At Raven Cat Games, translations, texts, and linguistic refinement are created by human hands. (Transparency note: AI was used on this website exclusively for two visual elements: ‘Fig. I: The Translator’ in the ‘Meet Robert Roth’ section and the processing of the stage background image.) I have no fundamental objection to AI as a tool. If it saves time on research, organization, or other routine tasks, it can be useful. But in my view, the time gained should benefit what this is really about: people creating something of their own.