Lost in Translation
Help Rosetta Stone, an agent of the Alien Language Preservation Society, overcome the language barrier and write a complete dictionary of the Thesauri language. Listen to what the citizens of Thesaurus have to say and try to deduce the meaning of their speech from context.
Note: Best played in fullscreen!
Placed top 5 at the Lost Relic Game Jam 2022 (theme: Connection)
Controls
WASD/Arrow keys — movement
Mouse — everything else
Credits
Art & coding: @FeatureKreep
Music: @ClementPanchout
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Comments
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other than the fact that I absolutely hate math in all capacity, this game is actually AWESOME
Like okay people some words require exact wording to be 100% correct, like "kitty" being correct but "cat" not being, but like hello. this is awesome? entire language. just like that. AND it's easy and quick and fun and like
I love the idea of the game I might be biased I love languages
How is "goodbye" not the exact same as "bye?"
Because my code is held up by duct tape and prayers. I promised myself to get back to fixing this oversight, but the right time just never appeared.
25/25 with a 80% acccuracy. didnt do the last quest by the sign saying stuff about 'no'
Killer! Would like to play more
put hey instead of hello >:[
Sorry, I should really update the game
20/25 words with 64% accuracy
i think i did well but i am really unsure of how to find the others
I LOVED THIS it was so rewarding solving the words and seeing them be replaced in a way that makes sense while talking to someone else. I only missed hi instead of hello, cat instead of kitty (I almost did kitty) wow instead of yes (I was looking out for aqew after reading that backwards no is yes, but forgot by the time they said it) and I never figured out kumo till the end screen.
yeah i did cat instead of kitty too. also the red looked like pink to me so i wrote pink instead lol
please make more
it was fun but i got only 80% right :(
so fun!
bruh i wrote chesee instead of cheese i am stupid tho i've got pretty much everything correctly
Happens to the best of us, you still did amazing
I didn't catch on that there were colours and eventually gave up, I got everything else though
Lost In Translation Gameplay
I'm not sure what "aqew" means, can anyone help
it means yes
When you hit the escape key the notebook glitches out and you're unable to access it anymore. For context, I'm on google chrome on a windows 11 laptop. Otherwise the game is pretty fun and unique, Good Stuff!!
same here, firefox on win11
Same with Macbook on Opera GX
help! I'm very confused on how to get the candy and the book . that's what nakto and tairu mean right? and why is there a sign talking about numbers when none of the dialogues mention numbers?
6:51 and 25/25 on the first go. Took forever to figure out 'please' though lol
qerta an interesting concept for a game!
i only got massi wrong for putting bye instead of goodbye but i guess thats on me idk. fun and cute game though! it would be nice to be able to go back to older conversations though because being stuck with everyone's favors done and no way to intuit the final words was annoying and i had to reset
I got only 4 wrong :), two of them were wrong cause of my horrible spelling loll. Time was 49:56 and got 84%
oh this reminds me of that one puzzle language game.... whats it called ach.... oh! Chants of Sennaar! i think its called
Oh yes! One of the best games ever!
OH YEAH!! 100% ON FIRST TRY!
"English, melon farmer ! Do you speak it?" xD
Very good, very clever game.
I had a bug though, my notebook disappeared mid-game :(
Same. Happened twice, I think it was caused by pressing esc for some reason.
Nice, would totally buy this if it was a full game
23 minutes and 96% accuracy! :D first try
21 minutes and 88% accuracy, I've never claimed to be an *expert* in communication. I guessed please wrong, and wasn't able to come up with a guess for help or sorry, but I figured everything else out correctly. Fun and creative game!
100% correct, first try! In 32:18!
awesome game, especially for a jam!!
Great game! In the end, instead of checking how "correct" the translations are, I think it would be more interesting to test the player's knowledge of the language.
I wrote "cat" instead of "kitty" and after I got all of the other words, I couldn't go back to the only conversation with "tairu", so I got 92% in 20 minutes. Other than that, great game!
Also, it would be interesting if the words were randomly shuffled every run, so any word could mean anything.
100% 25/25 on my first try, 25 minutes! Super fun play!
100% 25/25 first try ! Great game, had a lot of fun !
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For MASSI, it should count as bye or goodbye. I got that one wrong, as I put goodbye instead of bye.
92% on my first go, though!
76% in 21 minutes. Interesting concept would love to have a longer version
lol off topic but zilonis means elephant in my language
es zinu ..
latviesi itch.io?? nekad nebutu gaidijis
Oh, you guys are from Latvia? I'm from Estonia, so we're practically neighbors :D
omg cool! we love our baltic brothers and sisters!! also, your game is really amazing, absolutely loved it <3
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This was an amazing game, and I hope other people expand on the concept.
this is an amazing game, though it stumped me when there were still a few lines left even though it was all completed, i got mawku wrong because i wrote kitten ;-;
80% accuracy