Armory War devlog #3: Teaching Armory War to speak Turkish

Armory War now speaks English and Turkish — every menu, all 180 item names, every item card, the whole battle log. Adding a third language is now one more column in a spreadsheet. Getting there taught us that the hardest bugs in localisation are the ones no test can see.

The dotted i. Turkish has two different letters, i and ı, and their capitals are İ and I. Godot's built-in uppercase doesn't know that, so "İksir" (potion) came out as "IKSİR" — a spelling mistake in every title. The game now has its own uppercase that follows the player's language.

The font that ate three letters. Our title font, Cinzel, draws lower case as small capitals — and a small-capital i has no dot. An item called Cinnetçinin Plakası showed up as "CINNETÇININ PLAKASI": three letters wrong, and every automated check passed because the underlying text was correct. We only saw it by putting two screenshots side by side. The fix: in Turkish, titles are drawn in real capitals, where Cinzel has a proper İ.

Word order. English says "Fight 3 of 25"; other languages put the numbers elsewhere. Lines written with %d placeholders lock every language into English word order — and when one slipped through, the Turkish Market literally printed TP: %d / %d. No error, no warning; again, only a screenshot caught it. Every line with more than one value now uses named slots like {gold}, and a test checks that both languages use the same ones.

Grammar that depends on the name. Turkish possessive suffixes change with the last letter of a word ("Ironjaw'ın", "Vess'in"), so a battle log line like "X's barrier breaks" can't be translated with a blank for X. The log was rewritten as "{name} · {ability}: …", which reads naturally in both languages. Even the percent sign moves: Turkish writes %25, not 25%.

On the first launch the game follows your phone's language, and you can switch any time in Settings — it applies instantly, no restart.