imasupernow

Localisation Testing as Product Manager at Virgin I really loved my job at Virgin Interactive because I could finally work on video games. As a product manager, one of my jobs was to check the localisation of a game, especially the German version. To do this, I had to check all the texts of the game for correctness of content after the translation with a playable version and the corresponding text files (txt, xls etc.). Texts for international publications, for example, are first translated from Japanese into English and then translated from English into another language, in this case. German. It is not uncommon for the translators to have no pictures or a playable version available.  So it can easily happen that the English word 'tank' is translated into German as 'armored fighting vehicle' instead of 'oil tank'. When you are standing at the corresponding place in the game, you are totally confused as a player as to where this fighting vehicle is supposed to be...