Game Editor

Company Description

IGG is looking for a Game Editor to join the Singapore Team to develop high quality Mobile game titles.

This is a permanent position based in Singapore, and requires working onsite.

**Job Description**:
**Responsibilities**
- 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.

**Qualifications**:
**Who we are looking for**
- You are 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.
- You can write clear, concise and engaging English with immaculate grammar.
- You are the meticulous sort, 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'.
- You are able to 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.
- You are able to explain why “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.” is a grammatically correct sentence in English.

**Pluses**
- You have at least 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