// division 03
Quality Assurance, Localization & Market Compliance
Structured QA passes with reproducible reports, localization pipelines from string extraction to in-context review, and the market-compliance work a release needs: age-rating submissions, storefront disclosures and regional requirements.
Compliance is the part indie teams meet for the first time on submission week. Age ratings, data-collection disclosures, accessibility statements and regional content requirements each have their own form, their own vocabulary and their own turnaround, and none of them are fast if you start late.
What the work covers
- Functional, compatibility and regression test passes with reproducible bug reports
- Platform technical requirement checklists run before submission, not after a rejection
- String extraction, translation management, in-context review and pseudo-localization passes
- Age-rating questionnaires prepared and submitted to the relevant boards
- Storefront data-collection and privacy disclosures aligned with what the build actually does
Questions developers ask
Do you guarantee an age rating outcome?
No, and nobody can. Ratings are issued by the rating boards on their own criteria. What we do is fill in the questionnaires accurately, flag content that will drive the rating up, and get the submission in early enough that a surprise is survivable.
Which languages?
The set is chosen per title from the platform, the genre and where the game is likely to find players. We tell developers plainly when an extra language is unlikely to earn back its cost.
No outcome is promised. Store acceptance is decided by the platform holder, age ratings are issued by rating boards, and editorial and creator coverage is an independent decision. We commit to the work described in the agreement and report what actually happened. Platform, storefront, engine and rating-board names are used descriptively to identify the destinations we submit builds to and the tools we work in. All trademarks belong to their respective owners. Their use here is not a claim of partnership, endorsement, certification or approval.