Summary

Project website botc.app
Instructions for translators

This is the translation repository for the official Blood on the Clocktower app and accompanying game materials. English is the base language for the app and any currently untranslated text (both from app and game) will fall back to the English version in the app. Outdated translations will be marked as such in the translation interface. Whenever the app is updated, the most recent translations will be pulled from here and used in the app. The translations are split into 3 parts:

  • Glossary: this contains the general game terms that are being used across the app and game materials. It is (currently) not shown anywhere in the app, but being used to help translators use the same terms for important elements of the game.
  • Game Content: the actual game content that is also being used in the the printed board game. It consists of Edition descriptions, Character text, Reminder text (reminders are shared between different characters) and Jinxes. This content should rarely change and be stable, once translated.
  • App Interface: all interface text that is being used in the app. These will be updated as the app is undergoing further development, so expect frequent changes here and check back frequently.
  • Script Tool: all interface text that is being used in the script tool. These will be updated as the script tool is undergoing further development, so expect frequent changes here and check back frequently.

How to translate

Select the component you want to translate and the language, if it's already been added. Languages that are officially translated (meaning there is a printed version of the game available in this language) require the "official translator" role for updating the game translation. Fan translators can update all game translations for unofficial languages and all app interface translations for all languages, except English. The translations need to follow a few important rules in order to be usable on the app:

  • General: Some translations contain line breaks (\n) and / or tab spaces (\t). These are used for visual formatting and it's recommended to use them appropriately in the translated text as well. Otherwise, the translated version might look weird in the app.
  • Game Content: Night reminder text (roles.[role].first and roles.[role].other) sometimes contain :reminder:as a placeholder for a Reminder token icon. DO NOT TRANSLATE this placeholder! Example: The Butler chooses a player. :reminder: -> Der Butler wählt einen Spieler. :reminder:
  • Game Content: Night reminder text (roles.[role].first and roles.[role].other) sometimes contain *SOMETHING* to mark text as bold. Translate the text, but keep the asterisks in place! Example: Show the Townsfolk character token. Point to both the *TOWNSFOLK* and *WRONG* players. -> Zeige das Bürger-Plättchen. Zeige auf den *BÜRGER* und auf den *FALSCH*en Spieler.
  • App Interface: Curly braces placeholders are being used throughout the app text and are either numbered ({0}, {1}, ...) or named ({link}). DO NOT TRANSLATE these placeholders! They are being used to insert formatting, HTML elements or dynamic information in their place. Example: Seat {0} -> Sitz {0}, Download the latest {label} version here. -> Lade die neueste {label} Version hier runter.
  • App Interface: Pluralized strings are defined with a vertical bar between each form of the string. The first form is singular, the second form is plural. Keep the vertical bar in place, but translate each form accordingly. If your language has a different form for zero and multiple, the correct form is zero something|one something|many something. Example: Demon|Demons -> Dämon|Dämonen, First Day|Day {n} -> Erster Tag|Tag {n} (pluralized strings might also contain curly braced placeholders)
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07/30/2026

String statistics

Strings percent Hosted strings Words percent Hosted words Characters percent Hosted characters
Total 102,923 907,321 5,147,645
Source 2,243 19,732 111,950
Approved 45% 46,628 37% 344,500 38% 1,971,544
Waiting for review 14% 15,009 15% 140,550 15% 792,230
Translated 62% 63,880 55% 504,782 55% 2,875,724
Needs editing 1% 708 1% 9,972 1% 56,257
Read-only 2% 2,243 2% 19,732 2% 111,950
Failing checks 1% 1,136 1% 17,532 1% 100,262
Strings with suggestions 1% 701 1% 5,803 1% 32,939
Untranslated strings 37% 38,335 43% 392,567 43% 2,215,664
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Activity in last 12 months

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Quick numbers

907 k
Hosted words
102 k
Hosted strings
62%
Translated
342
Contributors
4
Components
46
Languages
184
Translations
13
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Trends of last 30 days

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Hosted words
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Translated
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Language Approved Translated Unreviewed Unfinished Unfinished words Unfinished characters Untranslated Checks Suggestions Comments
English 100% 339 1
Afrikaans 1% 7% 164 2,064 19,037 107,752 2,060 6
Bulgarian 0% 3% 70 2,088 19,536 110,682 2,088
Chinese (Simplified Han script) 93% 100% 146 3
Czech 42% 42% 1,285 15,519 86,837 1,273 420
Danish 39% 79% 902 452 5,085 29,248 447 112 43 30
Dutch 71% 82% 253 383 6,054 33,853 186 31 184
English (Pirate) 77% 84% 168 347 4,060 23,322 274 40 3
Esperanto 1% 4% 85 2,051 19,293 109,271 2,051
Finnish 5
French 92% 94% 47 124 563 3,110 122 11 61 49
Galician 39% 85% 1,013 334 4,408 24,939 327 94 1
Georgian 0% 28% 648 1,595 16,581 93,336 1,595 5
German 99% 99% 19 436 2,497 18 14 12
German (Switzerland) 44% 50% 134 1,102 13,380 74,964 1,080 26
Greek 0% 8% 192 2,051 18,968 107,382 2,051 2 1
Hebrew 9% 49% 903 1,128 13,509 75,750 1,100 3 64 2
Hindi 11% 19% 182 1,801 17,789 100,411 1,779 1
Hungarian 41% 46% 113 1,194 6,725 39,126 1,193 68
Indonesian 12% 39% 610 1,362 16,686 94,143 1,360 51 2
Italian 46% 99% 1,204 6 80 483 5 6 2
Japanese 91% 91% 190 4,014 21,874 184 8
Klingon 1% 9% 168 2,038 18,375 104,035 2,038 32
Korean 91% 91% 186 1,675 9,248 183 7
Latin 0% 5% 113 2,130 19,330 109,669 2,130 5
Lithuanian 0% 12% 274 1,969 18,678 105,852 1,969 10
Maltese 0% 10% 216 1,942 18,334 103,343 1,937 4
Norwegian Bokmål 99% 8 6
Persian 0% 7% 170 2,073 19,129 108,423 2,073
Polish 91% 99% 181 10 174 897 3 9 60
Portuguese (Brazil) 52% 53% 16 1,039 13,100 73,115 1,039 17
Portuguese (Portugal) 47% 95% 1,077 107 1,638 9,053 104 4
Romanian 7% 21% 312 1,766 17,719 100,016 1,764
Russian 89% 93% 84 141 730 4,112 134 65 46
Serbian 0% 45% 1,024 1,219 8,233 47,939 1,219 80
Slovak 44% 62% 383 852 12,791 71,521 846 13 4
Slovenian 51% 72% 457 622 11,149 61,643 607 15 18
Spanish 91% 93% 47 137 772 4,340 134 11 86 34
Spanish (Latin America) 79% 79% 9 461 5,240 30,067 360 26
Spanish (Mexico) 48% 1,162
Swedish 99% 7
Thai
Toki Pona 0% 27% 625 1,618 16,269 92,264 1,615 26 48
Turkish 35% 58% 506 938 12,852 72,191 790 18 14
Ukrainian 63% 90% 594 219 4,628 25,213 200 3 48
Vietnamese 66% 742
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User avatar trikkuni

Translation approved
Town Crier
JulkihuuKailottaja
roles.towncrier.name
07/30/2026
User avatar Giacomo531

Suggestion added
The Mathematician learns if the Marionette’s ability yielded false info or failed to work properly.
Il Matematico scopre se l'abilità della Marionetta ha fornito informazioni false o non ha funzionato correttamente.
jinxes.marionette-mathematician
07/29/2026
User avatar Giacomo531

Suggestion added
The Mathematician learns if the Lunatic attacks a different player than the real Demon attacked.
Il Matematico scopre se il Lunatico ha attaccato un giocatore diverso da quello attaccato dal vero Demone.
jinxes.lunatic-mathematician
07/29/2026
User avatar Giacomo531

Suggestion added
If the Magician is in play, during the Demon info step, Legion wake in separate groups. Each group learns which players are good, but does not learn the Magician.
Se il Mago è in gioco, durante la fase delle informazioni del Demone, i membri della Legione si svegliano in gruppi separati. Ogni gruppo scopre quali giocatori sono Buoni, ma non scopre chi è il Mago
jinxes.legion-magician
07/29/2026
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User avatar AlejoFBlack

Announcement posted

Hi Galician translators,

Thank you very much for working on the translation! We're almost ready to roll out the Galician game content, but before we can do that, we need to make sure it's of a good quality. If you get chance, please review other contributors' work, to make sure that it all makes sense.

-Alejo

03/12/2026
User avatar AlejoFBlack

Announcement posted

Hi Ukrainian translators,

Thank you very much for contributing to the app. We'd like to add Ukrainian game content into the app soon, but before we can do that we need to confirm that the translations are of good quality. If you get chance, please review other people's translations, so we can get it in!

-Alejo

03/12/2026
User avatar AlejoFBlack

Announcement posted

Hi everyone,

We've had some great progress with the translations and we're excited to keep that going. We've got coordinators in place for a number of languages now! We've also heard from a few of you that you'd like to be able better to coordinate translations, and that some of you already have, so to make that easier we've set up a space on Discord for you to do so. Please message me, AlejoFBlack (461331989660958721), on Discord with the username or email address that you use here, or your BOTC app ID (any option is fine) and I'll add you to the space. I'm not sure how many requests I'm going to have to handle, so sorry if it takes a while for me to get back to you. Feel free to follow up if it's been a couple of days!

-Alejo

01/28/2026
User avatar AlejoFBlack

Announcement posted

Hi all!

With several languages now in the app, we're really happy with how the progress is going! However, we're several weeks into the project and some languages haven't had much if any progress. That's absolutely fine, there's no commitment on your end, but we're going to remove any language with <2% completion in a few days to clean up how the project looks and navigates for those who are working on it. Right now, that's Alemannic, Austrian German, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bulgarian, Canadian French, Croatian, Filipino, Hungarian, Icelandic, Karelian, Peruvian Spanish, both Sami languages, Viossa, and Yiddish. All of these can be added back later (although likely with any work already done lost), and if you expect to start making progress on a language in the near future you can let me know at alejo@thepandemoniuminstitute.com (or anywhere else you can find me) and we can make an exception.

I'll be conducting regular reviews to check that there is some progress being made to all languages, in particular those (Indonesian and Latin) under 5%. If a language doesn't look like it's going to be complete, we still want to say a huge thank you for the time that you did put into it!

-Alejo

11/30/2025
User avatar bra1n

Announcement posted

Hi everyone!

We have two dozen languages already in a state where we can put them into the official app! And now we have a new challenge: the Script Tool is finally out and ready to be translated. We've uploaded all the files so you can have at them! Also, even though several languages have been completed, the review process is lagging behind a bit in a lot of languages. As always, don't review anything that you've submitted, but please do feel free to look through them and approve or reject any translations. Finally, while we're ready to name several translation coordinators and will do so in due course, we still feel like there are some languages with a lot of volunteers where we'd still like a coordinator and got no applications. If you weren't sure, please do feel free to apply by emailing me at alejo@thepandemoniuminstitute.com

Thanks again for everything!

Alejo

11/13/2025
User avatar bra1n

Announcement posted

Hi everyone,

unfortunately, it looks like the bug in Weblate which blanks your previously submitted, but yet unapproved, translations has struck again. Those translations are not lost, however, you just need to (manually) revert the "blanking", by applying the default fix, which inserts your previous translation once more. Any approved strings should fortunately not be affected. We're currently still working with the developers from Weblate to fix this issue.

Apologies (again) for the inconvenience, bra1n

10/27/2025
User avatar AlejoFBlack

Announcement posted

Hi everyone,

Thank you all so much for the work you've done on the translations so far! We've got a fair number of translations done already, we hope that those of you with completed translations are enjoying playing with the app in your own language.

We're going to make a couple of changes going forward. We're aware of a few issues with our processes and permissions so far - those of you with the 'translator' role can't edit strings that have been approved, even if users have flagged the translations, whereas reviewers have too many permissions and can approve translations. So we're scrapping those roles and replacing them with language-based roles so you can make all changes to your own language. We still want to keep the same policy we had before - all translations should go through two people - so please don't approve your own work! These changes will be rolled out over the next few days.

The second change is more proactive. Even as languages are completed, there will always be more to do. The app is consistently being updated and we're within sight of a release of the new Script Tool, both of which will require further translations, so this is an ongoing project, and we anticipate a drop-off in interest from some of you after the initial translation is done. Also, I've been getting a lot of questions about translations that I can't answer because I don't speak the language, and I'm aware of cases where two camps have formed around competing translations that end up inconsistent in the final translation (Dutch spreukenboek vs grimoire debate, I'm looking at you!). We're going to try to solve both of these problems with the introduction of a "translation coordinator" role to several languages which have a large number of volunteers and are complete or nearing completion. Coordinators will work with me, will have the power to reject suggestions, and will be the deciding voice on any issues that come up. Ideally coordinators will be native or native level in the language and at least fluent in English. I'm also aware that a good number of you have some experience with professional translation; that'd be great, but is by no means necessary. We'll also consider others' recommendations, so if you think you know someone who'd be a good person to lead the translation, or you want to volunteer, reach out to me at alejo@thepandemoniuminstitute.com.

-Alejo

10/21/2025
User avatar bra1n

Announcement posted

Good news, everyone!

We've reverted all the accidentally deleted strings and put the first 9 languages of the App Interface translations live! We wanted to include a few that were already translated completely in order to show off the new language support on the app, so the following languages are now available on botc.app: Danish, German, Spanish, Spanish (Latin America), Italian, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian and Swedish

That doesn't mean these languages can't be improved anymore! Matter of fact, now that they're out on the app, we're likely going to receive a lot more feedback and suggestions for them. As such, please keep improving them and we'll regularly synchronize any changes made into the official app. Approved strings can currently only be changed by a reviewer, so if you would like to change teams, let us know and we're happy to give everyone the right permissions to continue working on their translations.

Thanks again for being so awesome!

bra1n

10/09/2025
User avatar bra1n

Announcement posted

Hey everyone,

we're currently facing a serious issue that has caused quite a few submitted translations to be reverted. Fret not, those translations are not lost, they can be easily fixed: You can find all the currently "lost" translations here: https://translation.botc.app/checks/translated/botc-app/app-interface/ (simply click on your language) Weblate will automatically suggest a fix for them in the top right corner, simply click that button and hit "Save". Apologies for the extra work, we'll also slowly go through these and revert the deletions where applicable.

Regards, bra1n

10/07/2025
User avatar bra1n

Announcement posted

Hej Danish translators,

it looks like Weblate kept eating your submitted translations for some reason, whenever we update the English source file. I've gone ahead and manually approved all of these translations now so that they would be persisted and no longer get lost with further updates to the English sources. Please treat them still as if they were unreviewed and make sure that they're good enough. :-) Apologies for the inconvenience!

  • bra1n
10/07/2025
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