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Game localization is a fast evolving industry sector especially with the explosion of games beyond consoles into social media and smart phones apps. Producers tasked with localization have to orchestrate engineering, translation, studios, sales and marketing corporate groups to get to their end goal. A new book, The Game Localization Handbook a second edition release from industry insiders heather Chandler and Stephanie O’Malley Deming is a must add to your reading list.
Game localization has gone through many phases starting out with very defined process for the major consoles to current agile developing that leverages extreme programing and streamlined audio localization. With 100 video games localized in 40 languages for clients like Microsoft, EA Games and Disney, JBI Studios entered Game Localization in the 1990s. Our feature film dubbing experiences initially influenced our game localization, current process are driven by new entrants like Learning and Apps Games developers who are expanding the industry further.
The Game Localization Handbook, Second Edition
Covering best practices and direction on how to localize software for games, for all consoles and apps. Covering video game voice over, game translation, studio management, pre & post-production topics augmented with case studies, interviews and advice from gaming industry professionals.
Written as reference handbook for producers, translators, development personnel, studio management, publishers and students involved in the localizing of games. “With the increase in demand for faster game production and ever-shrinking budgets, localizations are becoming a more integral part of the video game development process,” said author and video game industry veterans Heather Chandler of Media Sunshine, Inc. who co-wrote the book along with Stephanie O’Malley Deming of XLOC with experiences at Activision, EA, Ubisoft, Capcom and 2K Games.
The Book Available At Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Reading List For Voice Over And Game Localization
Video Game Audio Localization Services
Each succesive gerneration of video games has become more technologically sophisticated and more realistic. Therefore the expections on the quality of the audio aspects have stepped up as well. Our team works with professional voice over artists that specialize in audio for video gaming to present you the highest quality of audio for your product, in every language.
JBI Studios has many years of experience in producing audio for the video gaming industry. Our client base in entertainment consists mainly of production and video game companies, most of them located in the greater Los Angeles area.
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