For the longest time, Brick Rigs has only been available in English and German (the two languages I am somewhat comfortable with). Manually translating the game into more languages would have been time consuming and require constant rework when text is changed in an update. With todays availability of good AI tools however, we decided we could build a program which could automatically translate the game for us into as many languages as we needed.

The problem with this approach is just that AI can make mistakes and doesn’t always consider the context of the game correctly. That’s why we need your help to improve the AI translations and to turn them into something that can be shipped with the next update.

The following languages are currently being translated:

Arabic
Bengali
Chinese
French
German
Hindi
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Ukrainian

How to contribute

Follow these steps to get started:

Go to weblate.org
Create an account
Go to the Brick Rigs project page
Select a language you are proficient in
Select the “Strings waiting for review” category

You will now see the first translation and can do the following operations on it:

A: Edit the translation directly (this will not be possible if the translation has already been approved by a reviewer).
B: Mark the translation as requiring to be improved by someone.
C: Save the changes you made to the translation.
D: Suggest a different translation (required if the current translation has already been approved).

Review

Once a sufficient amount of translations has been reviewed, we will invite the most active and reliable translators to become reviewers. They will then be able to review and approve final translations.