Meet the team: Dieter Pfeil 🇩🇪

Localization Project Manager, Germany

Hallo!

Born in the early seventies, I quickly got in contact with gaming. My father bought one of those video game systems where you could play Pong and Tennis on the telly. So my first contact was a paddle steering a bar on a black screen to stop a square drifting away.

Later, while many went for an Atari, we had a Philips Videopac G7000 with games like Muncher and Pick Axe Pete, mimicking Pac-Man and Boulder Dash. 🕹️

I even liked the idea of programming on that (nearly unusable) keyboard, but soon realized that the foil-covered keys were no fun — anyone who used a calculator like this will know what I mean.

Things got serious with the Commodore 64. I split my time between gaming and programming, learning assembler, and later Turbo Pascal at school.

Eventually I moved on to the Amiga, and then the PC with its legendary ET4000 graphics card and a custom-built sound card from a friend. I became curious about the hardware, started upgrading, repairing, and later worked as a PC service technician. 🖥️

A few years later, I joined a major game publisher in Düsseldorf, diving deeply into games and translation for more than 20 years.

During that time, I translated more than 200 games — from Tom Clancy’s universe (Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon) to Nintendo DS titles with cooking recipes, and racing games like Driver and The Crew. If you’re curious, many of them can be found on MobyGames. And yes, my voice talent for gibberish even found its way into one title. 😊

As a gamer, EverQuest II kept me busy for 15 years. Since then I’ve explored Warframe, World of Warships, World of Warcraft, The Division, and these days I pay my daily visit to Albion in The First Descendant.

Since 2024, I’ve been helping developers bring their games to new audiences as a Project Manager at Native Prime. I am happy to see the great work in the games I played, play and will play in the future and I am proud to help making these experiences available to a broad audience of players like me.

See you in-game. 👋