Luke Owain B.
Game & Tech Writer | Editor & Translator | World-Building Wizard
I'm here to put your world into words. - Native English speaker and published writer from the UK who writes lore, dialogue, scripts, characters and stories for games, with credits including Watcher of Realms (over 1 million downloads), Peek-a-Phone (as a Creative Director for FaintLines - work in progress) and Cityscapes: Sim Builder (a game by one of the minds behind SimCity). - Translates, writes and localizes YouTube scripts for videos with millions of views, with a particular focus on the gaming niche. - Writes technical articles for Sumsub, one of the world's leading verification platforms in the crypto space, to help it in its mission to combat fraud. - Works with DeepL as a linguist to help improve its translation software, particularly in the Japanese to English pair. - Has written trend-setting AI training scripts as a lead copy writer in an AI mobile game advert company, with game ad credits including major household names like Wordle. - A very experienced localization specialist who will provide you with natural, well written transcreated text. Credits include games like Professor Lupo, novels like Dreadful Beauty and YouTube channels like Sunny Poppy. - Was the award-winning editor of Buzz Magazine, Wales's largest arts and culture magazine. Will make your copy engaging and understandable, regardless of whether your first language is English or not. - Co-owns a successful academic proofreading brand and has proofread millions of words for incredibly specialist academics whose first language is not English. - Has written two novels (one dark comedy/murder mystery and one psychological thriller) and specialist articles for a large variety of clients. - Has a keen eye for detail, a wide range of interests, and a love of language that is reflected in his work. - Has never missed a deadline.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $2.6k
Billed in all: $135,194$135k
$1.3k in the last 6 months
Across 84 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 12% in Article Writing
Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
- #12Role-Playing Game Writing73 freelancers · 🇬🇧 #1Top 16%🇬🇧#1 of 5
- #13Worldbuilding69 freelancers · 🇬🇧 #1Top 19%🇬🇧#1 of 3
- #16Video Game Writing109 freelancers · 🇬🇧 #1Top 15%🇬🇧#1 of 9
- #33Video Game Localization139 freelancers · 🇬🇧 #1Top 24%🇬🇧#1 of 3
- #156Translation & Localization Software771 freelancers · 🇬🇧 #2Top 20%🇬🇧#2 of 12
- #229Fiction Writing1,669 freelancers · 🇬🇧 #22Top 14%🇬🇧#22 of 148
- #310Content Localization1,586 freelancers · 🇬🇧 #6Top 20%🇬🇧#6 of 32
- #339Game Design2,110 freelancers · 🇬🇧 #6Top 16%🇬🇧#6 of 53