Alejandro Aquino

Hello! My name's Alejandro and I'm a gamer and a translator. I started playing games when I was 5. It was a chilly spring afternoon when my neighbor, who was a couple of years older than me, invited me to see his new acquisition: an Atari. My younger self couldn't believe his eyes when he saw his pal controlling the characters on the screen. But, alas, my mean neighbors didn't allow me to play... That night, I went back to my house and I cried my eyes out. My parents, loving and caring as they were, bought me an NES a couple of days later. The rest is history.

From that day onwards I played hundreds and hundreds of hours: eating special mushrooms with Mario, running and running with Sonic, defeating Metal gears with Solid Snake or improving my fighting skills with Raiden.

As I had a knack for learning languages, I majored in English-Spanish translation in the prestigious National University of La Plata. After graduating in 2012, however, I didn't immediately pursue a career in the video game industry. I worked for international trade companies, translating corporate texts. I worked in factories as a linguistic assistant and English language coach. During those years I also became a prolific English teacher. Quite surprinsingly, I realized that I had a special ability at teaching English as a foreign language. I also have experience translating movie scripts and subtitles, websites, software manuals, engineering manuals, and other types of text.

I never stopped playing, though. I always toyed with the idea of becoming a video game localizer, but I was in my comfort zone: I really liked what I was doing. But I knew deep inside that what I really wanted to do was to be involved in the gaming community. In 2015 I finally started translating web games, applications and software. At the beginning of 2016, I completed a videogame localization specialization.

To complement my skills, I decided to study Game Design (I'm currently designing tabletop games!) and I'm studying web programming. My knowledge, experience and qualifications allow me to undertake a text in a deeper and more nuanced way.