Localization Tips and Product Updates Page 13

This month, Crowdin announced more than 10 new apps, including Paligo, Zapier, Clockify, and Crowdin plugin for Unity. You can also enjoy new versions of translation cost reports per task and new webhooks about finished projects built. Keep reading to take a closer look at the recent updates.

Unity is known as a top-notch game development tool. The list of games made with Unity increases every year because the platform is constantly updating. Whether you are one of Unity's developers or just planning to join the community, remember the importance of adding a game localization step to your development cycle. Or learn with us how to do it afterward. When done right, game localization gives you a competitive edge and increases your revenue. In this article, you’ll learn how to translate Unity games with the Crowdin plugin, send your game content from Unity to Crowdin, provide context for your localization team, download completed translations, and more.

ICU message format is certainly one of the standards of translation messages in i18n (internationalization). While this article covers the basics, developers often refer to our ICU message syntax guide for detailed structural rules.

Crowdin releases new features every month. Here’s a new portion of updates launched this March: we updated Crowdin Store, released new apps, new versions of design plugins and external tools, added new languages to Watson IBM Translate MT, and the ability to search TM records across all TMs in your Crowdin Enterprise organization. Let’s go through the monthly round-up of the latest features, fixes, and apps so that you can get most of our both products.

Recent technological advancements allow businesses to turn to machine translation post-editing. According to Nimdzi's industry report, about 50% of companies post-edit their machine translations. The concept is simple: combine the speed of machine-translated text with a linguist's review. The translation industry has advanced a lot. Yet raw machine-generated output still requires a human touch to achieve professional standards. And this is where you need machine translation post-editing (MTPE).

In today’s market, people seek personalization. They expect your app to speak their native language. In this article, we will cover how you can manage software localization for your Node.js app using a developer-friendly localization platform. Learn about the i18n framework and how to integrate your repository with a localization system to automate Node.js localization.

SCS Software is a video game development company located in Prague, Czech Republic. The company became famous worldwide thanks to two notable games: American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator 2. SCS Software is also a proud winner of the 2016 Steam Awards in two categories, PC Gamer's Best Sim 2012 and Czech Game of the Year Technological Solution Award 2016. Crowdin helps SCS Software manage the localization of their products and Steam Achievements into 47 languages, as more than 70% of their customers are non-English speakers. SCS Software engages its players to be a part of the localization process in Crowdin, which currently has 200+ members. This article includes the key takeaways and lessons on game localization from the case study we did with SCS Software. Read the full version for more details.