In what is to my knowledge the most Mojo-relevant session to take place at this year's GDC thus far,
folks from Bioware discuss The Old Republic's localization process which, like everything else relating to this game, is enormous, expensive, and also costs a lot. Don't take my word for it, though - reading Gamasutra's write-up reveals that the effort being mounted is so considerable, it could very well take more than an Excel spreadsheet to accomplish:
"Excel sheets don't work for us very well because they're so big, so we have to build very robust processes," Mitchell said. "The more specific you are about your process, the better the tools you're going to get out of it. You're going to build a better GUI and better cinematics design tools if you're specific about what you need for localization up front."
It's a sad state of affairs when the best thing we can do to keep LEC on the front page is make asshole-ish remarks about articles covering the most mundane aspects of game that
the company doesn't even appear to have anything to do with anymore. I don't know what we'd do without all those exciting games LEC itself has in the pipel- oh, wait.
Better news: Tim Schafer is currently exploiting a well-deserved invite to host the GDC for the second year in a row. There's probably already some good footage on the net somewhere, and maybe we can be bothered to find it for you once the show's finished.
*Figure may have been confused with the population of Chicago
Source: Gamasutra
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