Community based Crowd-sourcing Translation

Community based Crowd-sourcing Translationthe cost-effective approach for game localizationGame localization plays a vital role in the ever-expanding global game industry as it's responsible for half of the industry's total revenue stream. Successful game publishers and developers realize that localized versions of their games can drive revenues and increase international appeal. Beyond existing gaming markets, the demand is quickly increasing from a growing number of countries and emerging markets around the world, which is prompting publishers to localize their games into more languages to maximize their ROI.They may have some options to achieve this goal: a traditional translation agency, a dedicated game localization company, and volunteer players from the game community who are willing to contribute their time and skills to translate the game into their native language. More and more games companies prefer the community of volunteers to translate their game content over the agencies. They would recruit some community translators to do the translation work. They look for players who love the game and may be interested in helping bringing it to their own languages. This strategy is better than choosing a localization agency in terms of cost and quality level as the translators themself are veteran players of the game who knows it so well that they can put it into precise words in their native language. This approach is the community based translations of games.How can you make the best of your existing player community to localize your game?With the community based translations approach, firstly you need to assemble a crew for translating the game to other languages and then invest time and money to manage the translation process. You would need a complete system to manage huge amount of translators, assigning them translation jobs and unifying the terminology and style, which is cumbersome and time-consuming. A powerful platform to organize those translators and implement the localization workflow is just what you need.That is where the Translia crowd-sourcing solutions for managing game localization process comes in. Translia provides a complete, professional, customized solutions for game localization industry. It is aimed at helping game localization professionals to streamline their workflow to maximize their ROI.Translia develops a state-of-the-art collaboration translation engine to provide a powerful platform for multiply translators working on a same job which dramatically accelerate the turnaround cycle. The mechanism of this platform is to crowd-source the game translation tasks among the player community who love the same game and willing to work together to localize it into their own languages. With Translia’s platform, you can bring together an experienced andtalented team of game translators, game localization engineers and game testers. With Translia’s innovative server-based translation solution, game companies can streamline their translation processes and manage it in a time and cost efficient manner, while keeping high quality standards. Our objective is to help publishers and developers to enter new markets and maximize their sales.Translia collaborative translation platform is characterized with these main features:1. Community Resource Management2. Universally Compatible TM3. Multiple Communicating Tools4. Wiki-based Openly Editable Model5. Automatic Calculated Contribution6. Posting Work On-The-GoCommunity Resource ManagementThe solutions is based on our patented technology: collaborative translation system and method. It is a cloud translation platform, allowing the game localization professionals to choose their own translators from player community, designate editors or reviewers for a ceratin translation work or a project. When an new edition, version update or some titles of the game needs to be translated, you can simply upload the translation file onto the system to post an job and the system will automatically send out the job notice to those appropriate linguist to start translation.Universally Compatible TMMultiple translators are needed for a large game translation job due to the limitation of each translator’s daily working capacity. Don’t worry about the inconsistency caused by this.Our platform ensures the consistency of multiple translator’s collaborative work by translation memory (TM). A specific TM is created for each user (the game companies in this case)/project.Multiple Communicating ToolsThis platform also provides some communication tools for the translators to exchange ideas with each other for closely working together, such as: Forum, Group, Message broadcasting and Comments posting.Wiki-based Openly Editable ModelThe collaborative translation system is based on an openly editable model which means each one can contribute to the translation to perfect it just like the way people make changes to Wikipedia articles. Since the translation is a collaborative work, the efforts of individual contributors to a work are recorded in the revision history, which is publicly viewable to everyone participating in the work.Automatic Calculated ContributionOur platform allow you to easily evaluate how much a translator contribute to the work and calculate his rewards accordingly. You might even choose your own means of rewarding those translators for the translation work. It can either be real-world money, prepaid game cards, some combination of experience points, items or money in-game which can then be used to buy rare goods in-game or cashed for real money.Posting Work On-The-GoOur platform is very flexible to users. You can post a translation job on the platform anytime even in the midnight while you are in vacation. And the rest is left to the system, which works like a housekeeper who takes care of all the work for you. A job kick-off notification is sent out to multiple translators and linguists, who will start translation at their earliest possible time. When the work is finished you will received a job completing mail from the system notifying you to collect your translation delivery. You will also get a TMX file for the work which is compatible with many translation tools and can be leveraged in future.With traditional localization process, the game company will have to invest serious money, efforts and time to handle these process internally. Our solution will save you much time and money in coordinating translators and managing the qualified linguists, calculating each one’s contributions to the whole work and their rewards, since all of these work are executed automatically by the system. With our solutions, even one person can manage the whole translation process into all languages as needed and games across all platforms can be localized: hand-held gaming devices, online or console-based.Transllia’s complete, professional, customized Community Based Crowd-sourcing Translation solutions will help you speed up the course of releasing multiple language version of your game into the global market and maximize your ROI!。