Localizing Massive Games: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora from Conception to Live

Track: Multimedia | MM1 |   Everyone |
Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 9:00am – 9:30am
Held in: Steinbeck 1A
Presenter:
Patrick Görtjes - Massive Entertainment
Host: Melissa Biggs

The behind-the-scenes story of how Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora was localized. We plan to highlight our asset management tools, our text and audio localization pipeline (including the “journey of a text string” from its inception in the Snowdrop engine to translated versions in-game), and QA tools (such as advanced debug modes to empower LQA testers). Additionally, we will discuss key project takeaways, the future of AAA games localization, the merits of embedding a Localization team into the development team vs. Localization as a service, and more. This will be a media-heavy presentation with many videos and images.

Takeaways

Embedding your Localization team in your development team leads to better results, and enables the Localization team to add value to your project (since it usually does not produce anything needed by other disciplines to work); How investing in proprietary tech allows you to take control of your Localization project; How advanced QA tools can empower LQA testers and directly improve quality