Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Quick Links
Categories
- 7.8K All Categories
- 11 Help with translations
- 4.2K General questions
- 107 Roadmap
- 358 Game & application design
- 315 Plugins
- 70 User experience
- 75 Marketplace
- 290 Code snippets
- 34 Building a team?
- 269 Suggestions & requests
- 352 Announce your apps made with Gideros.
- 90 Step by step tutorials
- 668 Bugs and issues
- 195 Introduce yourself
- 239 Announcements
- 106 Forum talk
- 404 Relax cafe
In this Discussion
Good & affordable localization (translation) services?
phongtt
Guru
Hi guys,
I'm thinking of localizing my games to other languages such as French, German, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, etc.
Do you know any service that can be good enough yet offers affordable price (aka "cheap"
)
(Oh, and Turkish also, but I guess @deniz would help :P)
Just a very quick search first and I see some like these:
http://www.onehourtranslation.com/
http://www.icanlocalize.com/site/services/software-localization/iphone-application-localization/
Thanks
I'm thinking of localizing my games to other languages such as French, German, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, etc.
Do you know any service that can be good enough yet offers affordable price (aka "cheap"
)(Oh, and Turkish also, but I guess @deniz would help :P)
Just a very quick search first and I see some like these:
http://www.onehourtranslation.com/
http://www.icanlocalize.com/site/services/software-localization/iphone-application-localization/
Thanks
Comments
What are you using it for? Is it suitable for games?
My requirement is pretty simple:
- Game's texts are stored in Excel file
- Each row represents a sentence
- Each column is for one language
- I need translators to fill in columns translations for the corresponding English rows
Likes: phongtt
Still can't clearly understand the working model of Transifex yet.
Questions:
+ How do I get translators into my projects? Kind of "recruitment" or calling volunteers who are interested, or...? Then how can I make sure the translations will be guaranteed in terms of planning (time) and accuracy?
+ Besides the monthly cost of Transifex, will I have to pay translators for their work on my projects?
I can translate to/from => {'Turkish', 'English', 'German', 'Arabic'}
Contact me if you need help.
In your case, I'm interested in translating from English to German & Turkish.
Could you PM me a quote?
Anyway, it'll be more convenient if I can have an all-in-one service/solution that could translate to all languages of major markets such as US, China, Japan, Korea, Germany, France, etc. Could you help by some way?
You can Pm me the details. If it will be not so much long translation i can do it freelly:D
Or i can check the translations of those languages for you also. Anyway Pm me if you need a hand there.
Take care.
Likes: phongtt
One thing to look out for is how important are the translations for you? In the case of a project for a client, the first translator (Chinese language) either did not understand the context or gave him machine translations (something like Google) His second iteration got him a native Chinese Speaker that translated it right for him. Second thing to note is that you need to get the context right to get the correct translations. In most cases it would be easy (as a game has simple text, You have won, you have lost, level complete, etc)
It is nice to see a couple of our community members that can help you get started. Looking for a one stop shop could lead to a lot of heartaches specially if you are not happy with the translations.
So again, look for what is really important to you and work on that one by one.
Likes: phongtt
Author of Learn Lua for iOS Game Development from Apress ( http://www.apress.com/9781430246626 )
Cool Vizify Profile at https://www.vizify.com/oz-apps
I just thought about a complete solution as long as it's really good, so that I won't have to search for additional translation everytime.
But I keep in mind your advice.
Likes: phongtt
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=My+name+is+Originality
Some companies translate application . And it isn't expensive
For example www.mctranslate.eu
www.ajprojects.lt
Your best bet is to go for freelance translators specialized in game localization. If you need French localization services by some who cares about his work and provides reasonable rates, feel free to shoot me an e-mail anytime.
our company started hiring professional services, that actually have to deal with this cheap, but unreliable workforce. If a worker bails at the last minute - its their job to find another one and deliver work on time.
Now we are working with besttranslationservices.com
that offer cheap prices for their services and deliver high-quality work.
http://besttranslationservices.com/
Nowadays translation service has become more popular. They provide good service to their customers.