How Game of War developer Machine Zone tackled its slang-translation problem

If you put “ASAP” — the commonly used acronym for “as soon as possible” — into Google’s translation service, it won’t know what to do with it, but developer Machine Zone’s Game of War does.

Game of War is a mobile strategy game for iOS. It has gamers building medieval cities and going to war with each other in a massively multiplayer environment — and I do mean massive.