Our service for Dead Island 2 stood on top of 3 pillars with the goal of ensuring PLAION could reach all its milestones in time:
1. Quality: From day one, PLAION counted on veteran game translators, linguists, and reviewers for all target languages from our external pool of collaborators and internal staff. Keywords Studios takes pride in its thorough selection and maintenance of its teams, knowing our strength lies within our people. Once the teams were set up, we kept them as untouched as possible during the entire cycle of the project to ensure continuity.
On top of this, for Dead Island 2, we designated a QA Analyst that acted as gatekeeper of the entire project’s quality. The role of the QA Analyst is to oversee all languages and make sure they are aligned and on top of their game. If a translator adds a term to the glossary, the QA Analyst makes sure that each language follows or at least keeps it in mind.
2. Trust: In objective terms, the trust built between Keywords and PLAION through the years has an actual impact on the localization process. For example, PLAION exports its batches for translation directly from its content management tool and sends it to Keywords along with instructions provided by its Project Managers. This level of efficiency is, of course, made possible through a collaborative effort that relieves PLAION of many tasks and allows its focus to be placed in the places we can’t reach at Keywords. This means it entrusts us with a thorough pre-production of its own content, which, on occasions, has entailed preparative actions like complete reorganisation of the scripts to provide resources with the correct context for the conversations.
3. Adaptability: Dead Island 2 was in development during some of the most complex times the industry has ever faced. Our teams adapted to all schedules, requirements, and unavoidable changes this caused. Our strength and capacity as a business allowed us to face these challenges side by side with PLAION, while keeping the same people working on the project for the aforementioned benefits and allowing the client to spend its time and resources where they were most needed.
