The Most Games

Here's this year's The Game Awards nominee hype trailer, which I edited featuring the music of Coldplay. See you Thursday for our 10th anniversary spectacular!

#gamesindustry #meetup #Vilnius Our next meetup is set for November 21st and will take place at CORE Business Center, Ukmergės st. 126. This time our focus is a bit more on the production, QA and localization side. Our first guest is Andrey Chudaev, Publishing and Development Producer at Spiderling Studios from the UK, creators a very successful physics building game Besiege. He will share his experience and advice on how to produce your own indie game while working full-time in another studio. The second guest is Alexander Bukhonov, Localization Lead at Coffee Stain Publishing from Sweden, who are famous for their numerous hits such as Valheim, Deep Rock Galactic, Goat Simulator, and many more! Alex will advice about how to evaluate localization as an investment rather than a cost, and share some thoughts, examples and mistakes from target language picking to localization in general. The final guest is Slava Erofeev, Co-Founder of The Most Games. He will explore the QA topic through his personal journey starting with testing at Bethesda, leading QA at Snowball Studios and then co-founding the new company. The goal is to answer the main question – should you start, or shift a career in QA? Thanks to The Most Games for helping with this event, and also to the Lithuanian Council for Culture for continuous support! Please register your free ticket on Eventbrite! https://lnkd.in/duzi3qhD

🥁 Forgotten Playland is going Epic! We proudly announce that we just launched our wishlist page for Forgotten Playland, and will be going live there this November! 🔥 Every wishlist helps, and we would really appreciate if you could take a couple minutes of your time to wishlist Forgotten Playland 👇🏻 Wishlist page: https://lnkd.in/eMR68-fE

GDWC 2024 Summer Season Awards streaming Friday, September 20th @ 17:00 / 5pm GMT/UTC+0 time! Join us in celebrating the best indie games! Watch stream on the GDWC Youtube channel https://lnkd.in/dfF2X9Sp Check out Finalists https://lnkd.in/dGEp5eRR Huge thanks to our sponsors & partners! Kinda Brave Entertainment, Sequence, ZBD, Go Testify Ltd, Robot Cache, PickFu, The Most Games #indiegames #gamedev #Awards

42% of game loc specialists are credited in <10% of their completed projects. 38% of them have never been credited in a video game. These were the numbers from the Video Game Localization Crediting Survey — part of the article I wrote for MultiLingual Media. Despite that, 75% of respondents reported at least some improvement in crediting practices compared to their early careers. To explore potential reasons for that shift, I interviewed prominent experts on the topic: → Lucile Danilov, Localization Specialist at Loc’d and Loaded → Nazih F., Co-Creator of the IGDA Game Crediting Guidelines → Katrina Leonoudakis, ex-SEGA and current Localization Producer at Deluxe → Tamara Morales, freelance Localization Specialist → Marc Eybert-Guillon, Director at From the Void → Sam Burton, Head of Localization at Dragonbaby The International Game Developers Association (IGDA®) Game Crediting Guidelines, along with public pressure from linguists and news websites, were identified as recent milestones in that progress. But there’s still a long way to go. In 2023’s Game of the Year category of the Game Awards, only 1 of the 6 nominees had #TranslatorsInTheCredits for all languages. With 92% of the reported completed projects coming from LSPs, it stands to reason that translation companies have the biggest potential for promoting large-scale change. How can we — video game studios, LSPs, managers, and translators — work together to have translators acknowledged as a part of game development? How does that benefit the language industry as a whole, not just translators? Check out my findings below in this free-to-access article. https://lnkd.in/dsvepyaG — PS: This article wouldn’t have been possible without the significant help of colleagues, friends, and family. But I’ll leave the thank-you post for another day!