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Outsourcing in the game industry is the transferring of some tasks in the game development process to other companies. For many years, INLINGO has been engaged in outsourcing services such as localization, art creation, narrative design, and voiceover. We would like to share how the outsourcing process works, what helps our team retain a consistently high level of quality, and why you can trust us with your tasks.
FAQ
What does it mean to outsource a game?
Outsourcing in game development is the assignment of some parts of the work on a game to third-party contractors. This allows the developers to concentrate on the key aspects of their game.
Tasks that are regularly outsourced:
- Creation of art and animation
- Co-development or creation of a project from scratch
- Localization
- Testing
- Porting to other platforms
Major studios often outsource significant parts of a game, or even the whole project. Smaller studios assign specific tasks. Outsourcing allows you to reduce the costs of creating a game.
What do game art services comprise?
Game art is the visual designing of computer and video games. It includes:
- Concept art: sketches and illustrations to visualize the game world, the characters, and in-game items at early stages of development.
- 2D art: textures, backgrounds, the game interface, and icons. These are drawn by artists in Photoshop and other programs.
- 3D art: 3D models of characters and in-game items. Created by 3D artists in Blender and 3ds Max.
- Animation: animated models and sprites of characters, items, and interfaces.
How much do all these services cost?
We calculate the budget based on the specific services, tasks, and features of your project.
Tell us about your task and we will prepare a detailed estimate, as well as helping you compile project specifications.
What Services Does Our Studio Offer?
Game localization
We translate and adapt projects for new markets. Our team takes all factors into account, helping to retain the style of the text, adapt the humor, and respect the cultural norms of each country. We work with interfaces, dialogue, item descriptions, marketing materials, etc., ensuring the entire gaming process can be enjoyed smoothly. Furthermore, we can provide recommendations for the production and adaptation of your project’s visual elements.
LQA (localization testing)
We check the quality of your project’s localization to ensure that players aren’t distracted by errors and can simply enjoy your game. We identify bugs that can influence their impression of the game. The range of services offered by Inlingo studio includes linguistic and cosmetic testing. We help you assess the style, spelling, punctuation, and naturalness of the text, and also ensure that all text in the game fits with the interface. The result of our work is a detailed bug report. On the basis of our report, the developer can quickly introduce corrections to the game.
Art services
We create characters in 2D and 3D, and provide design of environments, icons, and much more. You can come to us with a fully developed vision of your project, specific references, and strictly limited assignments, or ask us to develop all visual aspects of your game from scratch. If necessary, our team will help you assemble references, compile a style guide, and establish a smooth pipeline for work.
Narrative creation
We come up with a narrative for your project, developing an entertaining story that will help your players immerse themselves in a new virtual world. Our team will invent the core lore of your game, create interesting plot lines, or write quests and in-game dialogues. We can undertake work on the whole project or on specific aspects, such as item descriptions.
Game dubbing
We will give your characters a voice that accentuates their personality. We work with both adult and child voices. Before selecting voiceover artists, we gather extensive information about the characters, get approval of the script, and compile an estimate. If necessary, we can arrange personal interviews with the actors before production to ensure that the result of dubbing conforms exactly to your vision of the project.
Why You Should Choose Us
- We work to project specifications. It’s important for us that we and you understand the task at hand. That’s why we carefully study and negotiate project specifications, going over every detail.
- We have completed hundreds of projects. We have been working since 2012 and we have localized more than 2,500 games for mobile, PC, and consoles. Our clients include MYTONA, Belka Games, Saber, and Focus Entertainment.
- We will answer any question within 30 minutes. During office hours, we are always available. This applies both to your first contact with us and to any queries you may have during the working process.
- We take an individual approach to every client. We select a team based on the requirements and tasks each client has.
Reviews
Our cooperation was very enjoyable. Our team was pleased with the work done by INLINGO team.
As an international mobile games publisher, we need quality localization tailored to gamers on tight schedules with a dash of unscheduled extra work. And the fine people at Inlingo managed to surpass our expectations, quality work with attention to detail delivered on time! A pleasure to work with, thanks Inlingo!
We are working on several small- and medium-volume projects with INLINGO, and we are very satisfied with our partnership. The high quality of their translations leaves us with no doubt as to their high level of professionalism. Additionally, they always meet our deadlines, and never shirk away from even the smallest volume of work—a particularly noteworthy quality.
I like the way Inlingo is involved in making the best translations for Hungry Cat Picross, it’s our core game at Tuesday Quest so it’s really important to us. I like too that we have established a flexible translation process for our weekly added levels, which is great to keep the game fully translated at any time. Communication is fast, simple and great.
Our experience working with INLINGO has been a completely positive one. The team is always on time—we receive both voiceover and feedback from managers quickly. We will definitely trust you guys with our future projects.
Our company started working with Inlingo a year ago. We are very happy to work with a great team of project managers, translators, and reviewers. All the communication goes through a single project manager and every time we have a new task or request, everything usually goes smoothly.
Our impression is that Inlingo’s team are committed people who really take pride in what they do, they are great at asking the right questions whenever anything is unclear.
We feel that we get a high-quality service, both in terms of communication, process, consulting, and the actual translations themselves.
Inlingo offer a fantastic translation service. You will be assigned a dedicated project manager which is very handy for communicating global things to all your translators and I have found them to be very responsive. Very impressive turn around on translations even for large blocks.
I don’t know if this is a global policy, but for my project I was assigned a team of static translators, one per language, who have been with me throughout the project. I really like this because they have built up a real understanding of the context of the game so I’m not having to re-explain things in every single string context.
They offered some QA/testing as part of the translation service which was appreciated and it must have paid off because I am yet to receive a single report of a translation error from a player yet.
I would definitely recommend them.
Inlingo has met all our expectations and in some aspects even exceeded them. We have a sort of unconventional project with a lot of text to be localized into many languages with ongoing development and additions been added almost every week. In such conditions, community translations work best for us. Unlike many other translation studios out there, who consider the community as a rival, Inlingo, on the other hand, worked with them as partners towards a common goal. They took certain tasks which could not be given to the community, or where the community would not be quick enough to respond, and did their part extremely well.
TL:DR version: we are more than happy with the symbiosis of community and Inlingo translations and would gladly recommend the studio to everyone who seeks prompt and professional localization services!
It was a pleasure collaborating with Inlingo to bring our game to the Japanese language. They worked alongside our fan volunteer translators to help us land on the best translation for each line, and we’re very satisfied with the final product. Their team spent time playing our game to understand the context, and always asked questions if something was left vague or unclear, guaranteeing the most faithful translations. We would love to work with them again for future translation projects!
