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Explore how we approached testing a game that is designed to be chaotic, full of hidden surprises, double meanings, and a main character prone to slapstick clumsiness. For Goat Simulator 3, our team at Player Research needed to gain a deep understanding of Coffee Stain North’s intended player experience to come up with impactful recommendations on how to keep the chaos without compromising the game's usability or fun. As an example: is it considered part of the intended experience for a play tester to spend twenty five minutes climbing on a church roof, trying to headbutt church bells in a specific order, dressed as a goat wearing a Santa hat and a tutu 🐐🎅🩰⛪? No spoilers - read our case study here: https://loom.ly/Nigo34A #GamesIndustry

Here are some cool networking opportunities with our teams during Develop:Brighton next week: 👀 Our crew at Player Research is opening up their studio doors on Tuesday the 9th. Be sure to plan in a visit to see for yourself how they conduct playtests and develop UX strategies. It's just a 15-minutes stroll from the Develop event venue. Bonus tip: ask them about our suite of accessibility services and how to best test game accessibility features. 👩 Our Chief People & Culture Officer, Joe Binnion, is joining our partners and friends from Women in Games as a panellist in their free roundtable 'Men As Allies: Open Your Eyes & Become An Agent of Change', taking place on the 9th from 5pm to 5:45pm. Bonus tip: ask Joe about the Women in Games Ambassador Programme, powered by Keywords Studios. 🎮 At the same time, from 5pm to 6pm, our Talent Acquisition team is attending (and sponsoring) the Expo Mixer on the 9th of July. Talk to them about our worldwide studio network and career paths within Keywords Studios. Bonus tip: You can submit your portfolio ahead of the event to win some time https://loom.ly/h9pTdj8 🎥 Our marketing experts at TrailerFarm and Big Farmer are hosting another Develop brunch this year. Join them in their studio for a relaxed games industry get together on the last day of the conference (July 11, 10:30am to 1pm). Due to limited space they kindly ask you to register your interest via email to info@thetrailerfarm.com. Bonus tip: see how their eyes light up when you ask them questions about trailer design in Unreal Engine 5. See you in Brighton! P.S. If you can't make any of these times, you can always visit our booths from d3t, Lively Studio, Electric Square, and The Multiplayer Group (MPG). Book a meeting: https://loom.ly/fszS3ZQ #GamesIndustry #DevelopConf

💡Our Globalize team wrapped up #LocWorld51 and #GameQualityForum in June. Dominick Kelly, our Localization Technology Solutions Director, attended both events in Dublin and Amsterdam. Check out his key learnings and insights from a game localization perspective. "Now more than ever, it's important to be curious about adopting solutions in collaboration with clients. Understanding how new technologies can add real value to a game development team and how to deploy them safely is vital. Not every game development process needs to chase the latest craze because not all AI products out there are suited for our clients' needs in the first place. Events like these are a fantastic opportunity to keep up with innovation across the industry. At LocWorld, I was honoured to hop on stage with Ruth Granados from Bethesda, who talked about the use of AI to properly categorise each piece of content in a game, automate metadata capture, and label it to minimise contextual errors throughout localization and quality assurance steps. Cristina Anselmi and Amanda Hawthorne from Electronic Arts do some brilliant work that focuses on making AI and Machine Translation more gender inclusive. At Game Quality Forum, Matt Ditton from Mighty Build and Test shared automation workflow best practices after having implemented our solution into the development process of 12 different games. All this innovation is not simple or easy to achieve but it makes my heart sing to see so many pioneers coming together to design ways to create better global player and customer experiences." 💙 Thank you to everyone who came around to network, exchange knowledge, and ask challenging questions. We hope to see you at gamescom! #L10N #FQA #LQA #ArtificialIntelligence

Keywords Studios has agreed to recommend a final cash offer by EQT Group to its shareholders. Find out more here - https://lnkd.in/eCCMsGcf

Voting is now open! 💙 We're thrilled to see our studios shortlisted in four categories of the Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2024! Congrats to all nominees and fingers crossed for the Awards Ceremony on August 20th, right at the start of gamescom. 🤞 You can vote for Keywords Studios as 'Best Service Provider': https://loom.ly/w2j90sw 🤞 You can vote for Keywords Studios as 'Best QA & Localisation Service Provider': https://loom.ly/SGi7njI 🤞 You can vote for Helpshift, a Keywords Studio, as 'Best Tool Provider': https://loom.ly/5df7WAk 🤞 You can vote for Mighty Games Group, a Keywords Studio, as 'Best AI Games Tech': https://loom.ly/MRbPkY8 Many thanks to all of our industry peers who continue to reward our dedication and passion for video games! #GamesIndustry

🎥 We’re excited to share our new video update of Penumbra!   Penumbra began two years ago as an internal R&D project for our artists to explore new #UE5 tech, and it evolved into a full video showcase! Now, our team has totally revamped Penumbra with stunning new VFX, animations, sculpting, lighting, and more. 😍   Watch the video and tell us what you think in the comments. ⬇️   Learn more: bit.ly/3xCrK7R #ElectricSquare #Penumbra #UnrealEngine5

Register now for our upcoming webinar on online child safety and how the games industry can learn crucial lessons from these Trust and Safety trailblazers. Kaila Jarvis, Trust & Safety Global Advisor at Keywords Studios, and Claire Quinn, Chief Privacy Officer & Head of the KPA Program at PRIVO (Privacy Vaults Online), will share over two decades of insights from child safety. They'll unravel how lessons from children's platforms can reshape the perception of Trust and Safety as a cost centre into a cornerstone of business success for any audience. Sign up here to join us on July 16: https://loom.ly/cFobXWs P.S. Kaila will be at #TrustCon later this month. Be sure to connect with her to find out more and discuss the latest trends and best practices in #ContentModeration.

We're incredibly proud to see our trailer for A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead out in the world! 🤫 Having amassed a million views and counting on Youtube, we're delighted to see all of the positive reactions to our first look at this highly anticipated hold-your-breath horror. We designed the trailer in Unreal Engine 5, utilising entirely in-game assets, which we elevated with custom animation, set dressing, camera, lighting and VFX. The result is a cinematic sequence that feels bespoke and hand-crafted, yet remains true to the games visual style and player experience. We love this in-engine approach - balancing the cinematic polish of an animated trailer with the authenticity of gameplay. As always, we've had a great time scrolling through the comments on the video and seeing everyone's reactions. Some of our favourites so far include: - "A RESOUNDING but quiet, YES!!!!!" - "That's how you make a trailer" - "Yoooo I was not ready for this 😲" - "Absolutely loved the trailer and super excited for it 🎉" - "Anyone else hold their breath the entire trailer? 😂" - "Add to cart, yes please 😊" - "And this has now become my most anticipated game for the latter half of 2024 🔥🔥🔥" #VideoGameTrailers #VideoGames #HorrorGames

We’re excited to announce Warped Kart Racers has zoomed onto the Apple Vision Pro! 🏁🚗 Hit the track with your favourite characters from American Dad, Family Guy, King of the Hill, and Solar Opposites in our Mixed Reality arcade racer! Shoutout to our amazing devs at Lively Studio and our partners at Apple Arcade for making this launch possible. 🎉 Check out the full article: bit.ly/3RH2HqM #LivelyGames #AppleVisionPro #WarpedKartRacers

🦈🏊 Will a shark in the Seine be an imminent threat to triathletes swimming in it during the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris next month? Highly unlikely, we thought—until our in-seine-ly talented linguists at Keywords Studios LA said they heard otherwise... Check out the sous-perb subtitles for Netflix's shark movie 'Under Paris' ('Sous la Seine'), making it more accessible in French, English, Catalan, Basque, Finnish, Filipino, Galician, Hungarian, and Brazilian Portuguese. Thank you, Netflix, for letting us take a deep dive into this story, which tackles some very timely and topical world events. Be sure to stream this movie, unless you're a triathlete participating in the Summer Olympics. You have been warned! #MediaAndEntertainment