When you develop games you want them to be available to audiences around the world. Complex game development is a costly process and the revenue through sales abroad might just be what is needed to make a game profitable.
Our game localization teams are experienced and have been involved in the development and localization of games from the early days of electronic games to new MMORPG's. They tested space flight simulators with real astronauts; wrote, translated and adapted children's games for creative writing in several languages; roamed the plains of phantasy worlds; invented new names for a warrior's swords; made sure that sound effects would still mean the same regardless of where they were played.
Game localization poses unique challenges to product development. While most localization projects require a more technical approach to the project, a game localizer not only needs to be a tech wizard, he or she also needs to enjoy playing and has to be comfortable in the atmosphere that is created.
Game localizers need to carry the fun of playing from the original version into its localized counterpart. They need to be able to develop word games in their native language that may defy the logic of traditional translation. They need to have the technical skills to understand the structure and code requirements of a game.
BeatBabel's resources and services include:
- Experienced in-country game localizers
- Technical skills to deal with all aspects of game development and localization in most game platforms
- Multi-language and multilingual project management
- Ability to extract localizable text from the code and re-import localized strings into the application
- Secure portal for file and asset management
- Translation memory implementation
- Voice over and recording capabilities
- Testing - linguistic and functional
- Multilingual project management
Whether you are planning to create a new action video game for Wii, XBox or PS3, an educational game for school or anything in between, our teams are ready to help. And they look forward to new challenges in new games.
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