Mobile game localisation: 1Stop Translations partners with Bombay Play for global success
In today’s mobile-dominated business landscape, professional mobile game localisation is not an option, but a necessity for success. With over 3.5 billion players worldwide and a market worth $135 billion, mobile games offer an immense opportunity for developers who want to expand their audience and increase their profits.
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However, in order to fully exploit this potential, it is crucial to overcome language and cultural barriers. Localisation, the process of adapting a game to a specific language and culture, is the key to unlocking the global market and achieving international success.
Developing a multilingual mobile game allows for the connection with millions of players around the world, multiplying your audience and earning opportunities. In addition, localisation increases player engagement, offering a more personalised and rewarding gaming experience.
A concrete example of the importance of localisation is Apple’s directives which require the translation of mobile games into at least 14 languages. By localising a game, developers not only meet these directives, but also gain a distinct competitive edge over competitors who do not.
1Stop Translations and Bombay Play together to conquer the mobile games market
Bombay Play, an Indian mobile game development company founded in 2017, has reached a significant milestone with its acclaimed title “Block Heads: Duel puzzle games”. Recognising its innovative and engaging gameplay, Google Play awarded Block Heads with the prestigious “Best of 2023” award for India.
This mobile game stands out from the crowd thanks to the combination of strategic elements of the classic block puzzles with an exciting real-time multiplayer mode. Unlike traditional puzzle games, Block Heads tests players’ logical skills and speed in an intense head-to-head challenge.
Players take turns placing blocks within a 9×9 grid, trying to create combinations and score higher than their opponent.
Its uniqueness was greeted with great enthusiasm by the gaming community, with over 100,000 downloads on the Google Play Store within days of its official launch. The game was also praised by the Google Play team, who recognised its value and great innovation.
The planetary success of Block Heads is no coincidence at all. A fundamental part of this triumph was its meticulous localisation into different languages of the world.
Thanks to 1Stop Translations’ proven experience in the mobile video game industry, the puzzle game has broken down geographical and cultural boundaries, being translated and adapted into Brazilian Portuguese, Hindi, Arabic, European Spanish, German, Korean, Japanese, Indonesian and Turkish. Localisation has embraced every aspect of the gaming experience, immersing players in a perfectly understandable virtual world.
1Stop Translations worked closely with the Bombay Play team, painstakingly analysing every aspect of the game and pinpointing key points to be localised. Subsequently, a team of expert translators and native speakers translated the texts with the utmost accuracy, paying attention to both the literal meaning and the linguistic and cultural nuances of each target language.
The end result is a mobile game that knows no language barriers, capable of engaging players from all over the world and offering them an authentic and engaging gaming experience.
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