How to localize a video game- 12 steps to bring your game to million of players!

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Nov 4 How to localize a video game- 12 steps to bring your game to million of players!

Developing a videogame is more difficult than it seems, it is not a children's game, although for many people it seems that way! A video game is an entertainment product, visual and very complex. And adapting a video game from one language to another, is also a much more complex task than it seems. To translate a game from one language to another requires more steps than Google Translate and copy / paste 🙂

In this infographic I have prepared a summary of 12 steps that we must consider when we adapt the content from a game to the different international markets.

Click HERE to download.

I hope you like it and find it useful!

@yolocalizo

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