Today we’ll be responding to a question about how we put together a localization team for a project. Alexey Medov…
Localization
Fan game localization, or is working with volunteers worth it?
Today we’ll try to figure out if it’s worth engaging volunteers to work on your game localization and why you…
Choosing a localization method: in-house department, publisher, or fans
Who does a game start with? With the developer. They create the product, and then are faced with the question…
Video game culturalization as demonstrated by a Three Kingdoms game: complexities and solutions
This is our next installment of expanded and fleshed-out material from the How Games are Made podcast. Today we have…
CASE STUDY: World of Submarine
The client is GD Company — a publisher with 11 titles, among which are major strategy projects and casual time-killers. The…
Who should localize your project: Freelance vs Studio
Localization can range in quality: from volunteer translations done with Google Translate, to professional studio translation and big-name voice actors.…
Deadlines in game localization
The questions have been asked, the topic set, now let’s look at an example. We’ll examine translation from English to…
What needs to be done to prepare a game for localization?
No matter how much we write about localization, we never run out of topics to choose from. Today we decided…
What is a reskin, or how do you change a game and make it completely unrecognizable?
A reskin (redrawing of the art of objects in the game as something completely different) is a rare thing, but…