Localization xbench full#

Surely you will not be able to check grammar, vocabulary or style of the text written in a foreign language you do not know, but there are some other aspects you can verify. Checking the quality of localization is impossible for you… Or is it? nor do you have time to find a qualified one.you do not have financial resources to look for the external reviewer,.

you have very limited knowledge about the translation process,.

you do not know the foreign language the game was translated into,.

So is there a quick and inexpensive way you – a game developer – can check the localization quality of strings translated to foreign languages by your language professionals? Restricted in this field mostly with time and money. It struck me I have to expand this article (which was almost ready at that moment), as the need for quality localizations is ubiquitous and developers require some ways to control the translations they receive form their localization specialists. We had the chance to know someone personally for the Japanese version of our game and to have you for the Polish version. But it’s hard to know someone for all the languages. It’s good to know people in this field so you can hire freelancers you trust. It was at that moment that we really realized that we don’t have the power and money to verify the quality of the translation of the company we hire. I think we were lucky because we didn’t have much complaint from the community for the translation except from some Chinese players. We were wrapping up Polish localization of Mages of Mystralia. Recently I have been exchanging e-mails with Cassie Nantais from Borealys Games.

Now I am preparing part 2 with more methods that allow to detect even more issues but require spending some time on configurations.

Localization xbench full#

The full text with graphics and proper formatting is at my blog:. Have little time to spare (about 20 minutes), Now I'd like to share some simple tips for developers who want to check quality of translations they receive from localizers. In some of my previous posts I tried to shed some light on financial matters and savings when localizing games ( Save money on game localziation.