The Mustang

Translated title: A Mula sem Cabeça

Release year: 2020

Release year (translation): 2024

Developer: John Harper

Project for BoardGameJam, a contest from Translators 101, a Brazilian translators platform. The game was The Mustang, a narrative RPG. The main antagonist of the game is The Mustang, a horse-like creature with fire powers from the USA folklore. The main challenge of the contest was to localize the game to the Brazilian reality, which included replacing the antagonist with a criature from the Brazilian folklore and adapting a poem, that should conserve the rhymes, the rhythm, and the metrics.

The word count was 1,114. A total of 32 people registered for the contest, and the judges selected 3 winners and 5 honorable mentions. My entry was selected as one of the honorable mentions. The game is available here. The complete source text and target text are available below:

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