ionic cradle
Hey! You may know that the French mod community did a mod to improve the translation available in the game (speaking French and you didn't know? Check this here -> https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1211995500744671272 ).
At some point, we thought: "because we have to provide a mod to improve the translation, why not use the fact that it's a mod to literaly translate the sprites? After all, mod exists to swap sprites with funny stuff, so let's use the mod toolchain to provide the best translation possible: the boosters and cards themselves.
Long story short: it took us a week-end but we did it; it's now available. But it was quite a challenge, as we had to "erase" all the text in all the sprites, come up with the pixels that should be there (quite a restoration work…) and create a toolchain to generate the translated sprite files easily if we wanted to change stuff later.
As it was quite a chore, PLEASE don't do it again if you want to translate the sprites in your own language! You can find our "blank" files, i.e. the files without the texts, on GitHub, with the whole toolchain I wrote during my spare time. It's open-source, licensed as MIT (well, everything that is not derived from the Balatro game, which is still proprietary of course, and we hope LocalThunk/PlayStack won't be mad at us, after all we do it purely to improve a game we love so much we spend weekends improving its localization ❤️).
It's there -> https://github.com/Signez/balatro-sprites-i18n
If the whole toolchain is too much for you to handle (even with README instructions), you can use the "blanks" directly: those are in the blanks/ directory.
Enjoy! ✨
raw glen
