Managing the italian version of next Nonoba Community

February 12, 2009 • Monetize by Emanuele Feronato • 12 Comments

You all should know Nonoba.

Nonoba

It’s is an independent gaming site where you can play both single – and multiplayer games for free, and it’s quite famous among developers for its multiplayer and payment APIs.

Now Nonoba guys are releasing the next version of Nonoba Community (N2.0 from now on… it’s not the official name, just a game I’m giving it for this post).

A huge part of this release is internationalization and white-label skinning of the community, so they needed a partner for the italian version of N2.0.

Guess who? Yes, the geek.

I am happy to take part in this project for two reasons: the first is I will get a cut of the profits as a manager of the local site, the second is I can blog about it and share my experience with you, the readers.

I think it’s very useful to see how big portals manage international localization of their community.

The first step will see the geek translating 1,538 text messages from english to italian, and as soon as I am ready to go the the 2nd one I’ll be back with some fresh news.

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This post has 12 comments

  1. Lucas Araujo

    on February 12, 2009 at 2:16 pm

    So now we are, in some way, colleagues. I’m doing the same for Portuguese. Good luck!

  2. Prankard

    on February 12, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    Che Figo!

  3. ThomasTan

    on February 12, 2009 at 3:06 pm

    Cool! and PLEASE check your mail!

  4. robby

    on February 12, 2009 at 6:55 pm

    Congratulazioni Emanule!

  5. jeanpier

    on February 12, 2009 at 6:59 pm

    Hello Emanuele!
    It’s good to know you are working on that!
    I’m currently working on the Spanish version, currently at 40%.
    It’s good news you are on that project too!!!

  6. Michael J Williams

    on February 12, 2009 at 9:19 pm

    Congratulations Emanuele!

  7. argh

    on February 12, 2009 at 9:42 pm

    argh ho iniziato anche io la traduione in italiano…
    il tutto mi lascia un po perplesso.

  8. argh

    on February 12, 2009 at 9:43 pm

    dovremmo fare a gara?
    e chi sceglieranno alla fine?
    mmmmmmmmm

  9. Arxanas

    on February 12, 2009 at 11:44 pm

    I would say something like ‘AWESOME!’ in italian, except that I don’t speak italian.

  10. Massimo M.

    on February 13, 2009 at 4:54 pm

    anche io !!!
    ma quanti siamo ?????

  11. Massimo M.

    on February 13, 2009 at 4:56 pm

    there must be something wrong if only here we are 3 italians contacted to be local managers..

  12. BayuBayu

    on March 3, 2009 at 9:36 am

    Wow great, how about the progress..
    I’m currently working on Indonesian version :-)

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