Editor

2 Weeks ago • 1 Years + • Localization

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Must have:
  • English Writing Skills
  • US Gaming Market
  • Localization Style Guides
  • Attention to Detail
Good to have:
  • Translation Experience
  • Gaming Industry Experience
  • Fantasy & Mythology
  • UI Text Formatting
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Edit translated materials to ensure quality, stylistic consistency, and suitability for a North American audience. Create and maintain clear and detailed localization style guides and glossaries for all games. Provide linguistic feedback and recommendations to external partners and in-house staff to achieve the company’s high quality standards. Work closely with the localization department and relevant internal teams to finalize the game content. Localization QA before and after the game goes 'live'. Assist in corporate communications, ensuring the company consistently projects a professional, quality-driven, service-oriented, and socially-responsible image. Job requirements: Familiar with the vernacular of the United States, and you have experience with the US gaming market, with a strong understanding of US culture, history, and current affairs. Able to write clear, concise and engaging English with immaculate grammar. Meticulous, with a keen eye for detail and an inquiring mind; you understand the differences between 'U-Boat' and 'Submarine', 'Requirement' and 'Prerequisite', ‘Humour' and ‘Humors'. Work well under the creative direction set by the game design lead, and ensure that the final localized text is consistent in tone with the rest of the game. Able to explain why “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.” is a grammatically correct sentence in English. Pluses: 1 year of experience in translation, editing, or proofreading. You play PC, console, or mobile games, or have experience working in the video games industry. You are familiar with different forms of writing, and have knowledge of format-appropriate presentation for UI text, game system messages, dialog, tooltips, biographies, exposition, narrative, etc. You have knowledge of fantasy, mythology, science fiction, comics, and graphic novels.
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About The Company

Established in 2006, IGG is a renowned developer and publisher of mobile games and applications with a strong global presence and an international customer base of over 1.6 billion users with over 38 million MAU. Leveraging its success in client and browser PC online games, the Group changed its strategy to target the mobile games market in 2013. After years of effort, the Group’s mobile games are now available in 23 different languages worldwide, and the APP Business has also hit its stride after a decade of perseverance. Embracing our corporate spirit of “Innovators at Work, Gamers at Heart”, the Group is dedicated to creating high-quality and enjoyable games and applications that will stand the test of time.

IGG is headquartered in Singapore with local offices in the United States, China, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brazil, Türkiye, Italy and Spain, and users from more than 200 countries and regions worldwide. Over the years, IGG has aggressively pursued a strategy of globalisation in R&D and operations, establishing long-term relationships with over 100 business partners, including global platforms, advertising channels, and vendors such as Apple, Google, and Meta. The Group’s international presence and partnerships have enhanced its competitive advantage in the industry.

We are in constant search of talents for our overseas studios, check out careers website ( http://jobs.igg.com/) to get to know about our openings in:

IGG Singapore

IGG USA

IGG Canada

IGG Brazil

IGG China

IGG Japan

IGG Korea

IGG Thailand

IGG Indonesia

IGG Philippines

IGG Spain

IGG Türkiye

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