Secrets of the Game Business (Game Development Series)

High-quality localizations can give your game a lot of positive exposure in international markets. While localizations can be time consuming, they can go very smoothly and efficiently if they are well thought out beforehand. When planning for localizations, keep the following in mind:

• Create international content.

• Determine costs and schedules before you start the localization process.

• Keep game development "localization friendly."

• Organize all final assets before sending them to be translated.

• Carefully plan and execute the asset integration process.

• Allow enough testing time to find and fix all linguistic and functionality bugs.

Each localization will have different pitfalls, but if you plan the known variables, you will have more time to deal with problems as they come up.