The Game Tech Ecosystem
Gaming is a booming industry, increasing about 7 percent year-on-year for the past several...
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Gaming is a booming industry, increasing about 7 percent year-on-year for the past several...
The overlapping purposes of closed captions and subtitles have a direct bearing on the aud...
Translation management systems or TMS as they are better known, help streamline the work o...
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Introduction The mystifying world of video game creation has a very significant but broadl...
Andovar is proud to announce the recent opening of a new localization engineering office i...
Marketing video localization is every bit an art as it is a science - meaning that you'll ...
Conclusion So we've now reached the final chapter of our comprehensive games localization ...
Part 10: Localization Markets The global games localization market contains many avenues f...
Part 9: Quality Assurance Various quality tests to catch and correct issues, as well as to...
Part 8: Challenges Game localization is a highly complex project. There's research, planni...
Part 7: Best Practices Succeeding in the current global gaming market means successfully m...
Part 6: Technologies The majority of game localization service providers employ localizati...
Part 5: Internationalization To succeed in an international market, a game product must be...
Part 4: Culturalization Across the 190+ countries of the world there are over 7 billion pe...
Part 3: Translation Converting a game's text and dialogue from the language in which it wa...
Part 2: Localization The bulk of game localization involves translating, culturalizing and...
Part 1: Pre-production Complete all pre-production tasks Before you launch your game local...
Introduction The mystifying world of video game creation has a very significant but broadl...
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Congratulations! You’ve created a great video game! Your heart, soul, sweat and possibly a...
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So, you’ve decided that localization is a good idea to reach more gamers and make more sal...
Computer-Aided Translation (CAT) Tools are software applications that assist in translatin...
Weighted Word Count is an approach to counting words for translation which presents all le...
Translator’s style guide is a document outlining stylistic instructions for use in transla...
Translation termbase is a list of approved terms restricted to a specific subject matter p...
Translation Memory eXchange (TMX) is an open XML-based standard for exchanging translation...
Translation memory is a database for storing translated content in aligned pairs of source...
Terminology management is a set of activities that ensures correct terms are used consiste...
Term Base eXchange (TBX) is an open standard for exchanging structured terminological data...
Machine Translation (MT) is a technology that automatically translates text using termbase...
Corpus (pl. corpora) is a large body of machine-readable text used for research purposes. ...
Controlled language is a subset of natural language with a restricted grammar and vocabula...
Alignment of translation means matching segments of text with their translated renditions....
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Game localization has been an increasingly important part of our business in recent years ...
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