In this case study, we’ll talk about our work on the Polish translation of Melsoft Games’ business simulator MyCafe — a game featuring recipes and an incredible amount of dialogue. THE TASK Localize a popular “tycoon-style” game with a large fanbase. Over 400,000 words from English to Polish. This is a “tycoon-style”…

We localized two games based on popular animes, Naruto Online and Fairy Tail, into Russian. We’ve included both projects from publisher 101XP in this case study to show how important it is to be familiar with the source when translating something that’s part of a franchise. The task Localize two games and…

This is the story of our work on the popular mobile fighting game Shadow Fight 3. We’re going to discuss the process, show you some before and after screenshots, and, of course, take a look at some of the difficulties involved. It all started in fall 2017 when the publisher…

We interviewed Miguel Sepulveda, Global Localization Manager at King (Candy Crush Saga). Our business developer, Levon, spoke with Miguel on topics from his blog yolocalizo.com, about when localization may be unnecessary, what differences there are between the localization processes at EA and King, and much, much more. This is an…

An interview with Anastasiya Nikolayeva, director of localization at G5 Entertainment. Anastasiya Nikolayeva, director of localization for G5 Entertainment group, a developer and publisher of casual and free-to-play games for smartphones and tablets, gave an in-depth interview to Pavel Tokarev, CEO of INLINGO game localization studio. They talked about the…

For everything to work smoothly and deadlines to be met, it’s very important to set up a system for editing. Today we’ll look at the most common situation — we’ll deal with the relationship between editor and translator and discuss what set-ups are most productive. …

Today, we are going to explain how localization testing works, why it should be done, and what happens to the text in the process. Elizaveta Morgacheva, senior project manager here at INLINGO will tell us all about it.

INLINGO spoke with Yulia Arzhakova. She is the localization manager for IT Territory, one of the MY.GAMES (Mail.ru Group’s gaming division) internal studios. Yulia talked about the qualities that Mail.ru looks for, the importance of localization, and about how to start a successful localization department in a development company.

Today we’ll be responding to a question about how we put together a localization team for a project. Alexey Medov will explain how we go about this at INLINGO.