About

Alexis Barroso is an English to French translator, editor, and author specialized in video game localization. He also works on audiovisual subtitling and dubbing, as well as poetry.

Alexis was born in 2001 from French and Spanish parents and grew up in the suburbs of Lyon, France, where he is still based after having lived for some time in the Netherlands. He has studied English Literature & Linguistics at Université Lumière Lyon II before becoming a self-employed linguist in 2020, working for numerous international developers, publishers and agencies on titles of all sizes and genres.

Education

2021 // Language and culture in videogames – University of Burgundy
2021 // How to take advantage of regular expressions in localization – Santiago de Miguel
2021 // Game Localization Masterclass – Aurélie Perrin, Pierre Techoueyres, Raphaël Rouby
2020 // Introduction to Games Localization – Maciej Maminski, Carmen Lopez, Alina Fernandez, Anna Smolak
2020 // Introduction to Game Localization – Pablo Muñoz Sánchez, Udemy
2019 // Introduction to Audiovisual Translation – Université Lumière Lyon II
2019 – 2021 // Bachelor of Arts, English Language & Literature – Université Lumière Lyon II
2019 // Fundamentals of Digital Marketing – The Open University
2019 // First Certificate in English – Cambridge Assessment English
2017 // Preliminary English Test – Cambridge Assessment English
2016 – 2019 // General Baccalaureate, Economics & Sociology – Lycée Auguste et Louis Lumière

Related events

??/06/2026 – ATAA : Prix adaptation de jeu vidéo #1 (Paris, France)
20-24/08/2025 – Gamescom 2025 (Cologne, Germany)
05/06/2025 – ATAA : Prix fiction #13, Prix documentaire #7 (Paris, France)
21-25/08/2024 – Gamescom 2024 (Cologne, Germany)
26/10/2024 – Paris Games Week 2024 (Paris, France)
03/12/2023 – Japan Touch #24 (Lyon, France)
01/12/2019 – Japan Touch #21, Salon de l’Asie #6 (Lyon, France)
22/11/2019 – LocJam de l’Université de Bourgogne (Dijon, France)
04/05/2019 – Japan Touch Haru #6, Geek Touch #2 (Lyon, France)
18/11/2018 – Japan Touch #20, Salon de l’Asie #5 (Lyon, France)
26/08/2018 – Lyon Hanabi #4 (Lyon, France)
07/04/2018 – Japan Touch Haru #5, Geek Touch #1 (Lyon, France)
09/04/2016 – Japan Touch Haru #3 (Lyon, France)
11/04/2015 – Japan Touch Haru #2 (Lyon, France)
28/11/2015 – Japan Touch #17, Salon de l’Asie #2 (Lyon, France)
08/11/2014 – Japan Touch #16, Salon de l’Asie #1 (Lyon, France)

Lectures given

23/10/2021 – Crediting, NDAs and Mentionability in Game Localization
(with Erin London – PowerPoint available)

20/03/2021 – Play it safe or go ballistic? – Creative Freedom in Game Translation
(PowerPoint available)

17/01/2021 – Ask Everyone Anything about Game Localization
(with Roberto Falco Miramontes)

19/11/2020 – Game Translation Jams into French – Case study of the Dijon LocJam
(PowerPoint available)

Awards received

3rd Grand Prize for Youth Poetry 2025 – Issued by épingle à nourrice éditions
Awarded for the poem ‟Ma peau comme une écorce”, published in the anthology ‟Quand on partait sur les chemins”.

2nd Prize for Youth Poetry 2024 – Issued by épingle à nourrice éditions
Awarded for the poem ‟Fatalité”, published in the anthology ‟Cher John : lettres poste restante”.

Finalist of the Dijon LocJam 2020 – Issued by Université de Bourgogne
For Los Rostros del Bosque, a game by Cuatro Assets:
‟Third best French localization out of 12 entries”
‟Nominated by 3 members of the jury”

Finalist of the Dijon LocJam 2019 – Issued by Université de Bourgogne
For Ikinari Maou, a game by Shintaro Ito:
‟Second best French localization out of 6 entries”
‟Best localization in the ‘casual players’ target audience category”