Sara produces timely and high-quality translations and her proofreading skills are admirable, as is her keen eye for details when it comes to provide localization testing.
Vojtech S., Associate Producer, Bohemia Interactive
According to recent research on Italian games market, the number of people playing videogames on smartphones and tablets is increasing before one’s very eyes. Mobile videogames represent now one the fastest growing fields of the industry and this is certainly not going to stop. Developers and publishers are even more pushed to translate their games into other languages, and Italian is one of them.
Being a passionate gamer, localising videogames is even more fun. Arma Mobile Ops is a brilliant military strategy game whose translation required some challenges to cope with. First of all, the length of words. Mobile videogames require very short text and English is perfect for this purpose. Italian words are longer though, so condensation and rephrasing techniques are required throughout the document. Furthermore, Italian nouns and adjectives vary in gender and number and this could reflect in some difficulty during the translation of the strings, which requires a bit of reworking.
Localising mobile games means also that it is very likely to find new specific terminology never translated before and in these cases localisers are akin to linguistic pioneers. Some of these words could refer to new specific features that, for example, are designed to improve one’s gaming experience.