In the last post about the logo, A Police Officer with red blood was used.
The main problem was that the Police was the character that was being localized. Which meant that 9 different logos would have to be created for the 9 countries.
But zombies don’t have that problem. So a zombie was used instead.
Another problem was the red blood. Germany doesn’t show blood as red. So to as make sure that the same logo can be used for all countries, the blood was changed to green.
This is the final logo:
Another country was added to the list: United States of America.
USA is one of the biggest Gaming industries in the world so it was also added to the list.
The Police character and the car have a texture for USA now:
The logo for the game had been changed so that the text “DND” would not have to be translated to the local languages.
So a common logo was created.
This logo will appear before the player chooses the region of the game.
A work in progress, but this logo will be used in all the regions the game will be localised in:
As the textures of the Police Officers changed, the textures of their cars also changed, according to the region:
(The cars on the top left corner are the police cars)
France.
Germany.
Great Britain.
Italy.
Poland.
Portugal.
Russia.
Spain.
In an earlier post, Flor had mentioned what countries we are planning to localise this game.
Based on the research done by Marius, I have created 8 different textures for the Police Officers (the main characters), one for each of the countries.
Police Officers:
France.
Germany.
Great Britain.
Italy.
Poland.
Portugal.
Russia.
Spain.
There are many tasks and challenges when it comes to localising a game:
Example: When games are more story- than action-driven, culturalising them can be challenging because of all the premises the designers are taking for granted in the development of theplot. Asian gamers seem to prefer more childlike characters, while Western countries might emphasize adult features. An example of the changes that are likely to happen during localization is Fatal Frame (known in Japan as Zero and known in Europe as Project Zero) (Tecmo 2001). In the original Japanese version the female protagonist, Miku, was a frightened seventeen-year-old girl looking for her brother Mafuyu who disappeared after entering a haunted mansion. In the US and European versions Miku is nineteen, has Western features, and is not wearing the original Japanese school uniform. Unfortunately, developers did not think necessary to change her brother’s appearance, so when players do find Mafuyu at the end of the game they do not seem to be blood-related.
To know more details about localisation, please go to the source:
There are some mistakes that Game Developers, Game Companies and Game Publishers make while localising a game:
1. Outsourcing translations to the cheapest agency, with dire consequences
2. Expecting a 100,000 word manual to be translated within 3 days
3. Embedding text directly into the code, instead of separate text files
4. Assuming every language has the same grammar as English
5. Assuming every language is as concise as English
6. Assuming that every word has only one possible translation
7. Not providing any context and not answering questions
8. Assuming that anybody can translate
9. Trusting Microsoft’s existing localization
10. Not giving enough information
To know about details and more mistakes, follow this link:
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