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Global indie game developers (1-3 person teams) looking to enter the Korean market (5th largest Steam market by revenue) need to translate in-game text (averaging 5,000-30,000 words) into Korean, but professional game translation outsourcing costs $0.06-$0.11 per word ($300-$3,375 total), and it's difficult to capture game-specific tone, memes, and UI constraints. Re-translation costs recur with every update.
(1) Auto-extract localization files from Unity/Godot projects and perform LLM-based first-pass translation, (2) provide second-pass optimization reflecting genre-specific tone guides (RPG/Action/Casual) and UI character count constraints, and (3) connect with a pool of Korean gamer beta reviewers for crowdsourced third-pass native review.
| N Novelty | 1-5 | How uncommon the service is in market context. |
| U Urgency | 1-5 | How urgently users need this problem solved now. |
| M Market | 1-5 | Market size and growth potential from proxy indicators. |
| R Realizability | 1-5 | Buildability for a small team with realistic constraints. |
| V Validation | 1-5 | Validation signal quality from competition and demand data. |
| Tech Complexity | / 40 | Difficulty of core implementation stack. |
| Data Availability | / 25 | Practical availability and cost of required data. |
| MVP Timeline | / 20 | Expected time to ship a usable MVP. |
| API Bonus | / 15 | Bonus for viable public API leverage. |
| Competition | / 20 | Signal quality from competitor landscape. |
| Market Demand | / 20 | Demand proxies from search and mention patterns. |
| Timing | / 20 | Fit with current shifts in tech, behavior, and regulation. |
| Revenue Signals | / 15 | Reference evidence for monetization viability. |
| Pick-Axe Fit | / 15 | How well the concept serves participants in a trend. |
| Solo Buildability | / 10 | Practicality for lean-team implementation. |