Ulatus delivered impeccable translation solutions that unlocked the depth of our complex gaming world and maintained attributes and abilities for over 70 gaming characters without error, exceeding our expectations
Our client is a seasoned player in the gaming industry, boasting over a decade of active involvement. During this time, they've successfully crafted and launched more than 150 strategic games that have gained immense popularity on a global scale. Their expertise isn't limited to game development alone. They have a dedicated team of professionals, including talented designers, adept engineers, and experienced game strategy writers. These experts excel not only in creating captivating games but also in meticulously devising effective strategic plans for a diverse array of games within the gaming industry. Whether it's on a Nintendo Switch, PC, or PlayStation, our client's multidisciplinary approach ensures a comprehensive and top-notch gaming experience. They aimed to collaborate with a translation partner well-versed in the translation of in-game materials related to strategy and gameplay. Their aim was driven by the need to translate a comprehensive gaming guide for a popular game. This guide covered extensive details about the characters' performance, abilities, weapon skills, and potential, all intended to facilitate players in mastering the game effortlessly.
In this intricate strategy guide, the character attributes are the key elements to success. Accurate game translation was paramount to ensure players can leverage their character's performance, abilities, weapon skills, and potential effectively. With more than 70 characters to consider, some sharing similar skills but with varying degrees of importance, the challenge lied in providing precise and consistent information, allowing gamers to make informed decisions and excel in the game.
Unraveling the game's overarching storyline in this strategy guide became paramount. It often boasted expansive narratives where characters navigated a complex world, interacting with various locations, items, and events. The challenge lay in ensuring that every detail aligned seamlessly with the characters' perspectives and the overarching narrative. When translating the game's strategic guide, the intricate dance of characters within this world presented a formidable challenge.
The client sought an accelerated translation of the comprehensive strategic guide, with specific deadlines and milestones assigned to individual characters based on their significance within the game's narrative. This urgency stemmed from the necessity to publish the game's English strategic guide worldwide, catering to the international player base, and required streamlining the translation process to ensure a timely global release.
The strategy guide intricately delves into the game's diverse cast of characters, each possessing unique attributes and abilities that wield tremendous influence over a player's choices and performance in the game. The paramount challenge lay in maintaining unwavering consistency and precision throughout. To achieve this, we harnessed the power of a cutting-edge Computer-Aided Translation (CAT) tool. This advanced technology not only ensured seamless consistency but also forged a robust translation memory, preserving the accuracy of essential terms across multiple files.
Given the intricate narrative layers within this complex gaming world, the development of a comprehensive glossary meticulously cataloging in-game terminology, character attributes, abilities, and related terms emerged as a paramount necessity. This glossary stood as the cornerstone, assuring translation consistency and substantially reducing the risk of errors. Moreover, our linguistic team fostered collaboration with the strategic game writers, delving deep into the game's overarching storyline, character dynamics, and world-building. Additionally, we prioritized characters according to their roles and significance within the game which honed the focus of the translation process on those with unique abilities and roles, significantly augmenting translation accuracy. Furthermore, a robust quality control process was put in place encompassing multiple rounds of proofreading and editing to guarantee seamless alignment of translations with the game's narrative and character perspectives.
In order to expedite the translation of the comprehensive strategic guide while adhering to the client's specific character-based deadlines, a dedicated project manager was appointed. This project manager's responsibilities included creating a project plan in accordance with the client's milestones, prioritizing characters and associated files for timely delivery, scheduling translations, close collaboration with the client's game strategy writers, coordination of the linguistic team, swift integration of client feedback on completed sections, and ensuring punctual project delivery. The successful execution of these tasks resulted in the project being delivered to the client well in advance of the requested deadline, achieving a 27% reduction in the overall timeline.
