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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This was super super fun!!! I love games that get you to translate fake languages and this one is very well done! I got all but 3 correct, I was completely lost on staru, and thought mawku was 'thanks' (for getting the kitty down), and thus didn't get gabu as thanks, but I could tell it was some kind of enthusiastic thing so I put down 'yay'. It's funny that the vibe still came across even if the meaning wasn't exactly right! Also, love that they're dinos, and the double pun in Thesaurus <3
got stuck at the end because i kept writing aqew LOL tuipa out of tuipa game
really fun gameeee, had everything wrong bc i put all my answers down in german lol
Haha, that’s awesome! I still remember some basic German from my high school, so maybe I’ll release a German version one day.
I was marked wrong for putting "goodbye" instead of "bye". For a planet named Thesaurus, they sure don't like synonyms.
same. only other one I got wrong was Waatu. thought it was more general.
I had GIVE instead of PLEASE. Should've remembered the sign saying they're very polite.
the thesauri being dinos was not lost on me hehe
i did really badly (nearly 30min + 92% acc) because i didnt understand the mechanics and just kept brute forcing interactions over and over without writing anything down but it was super fun! i'd love to play this same type of game with different villager scenarios every time, so fun
Thank you! Once upon a time, I dreamt of releasing a longer game, perhaps with three or more different planets, each with its own unique language.
Who knows, maybe I could still do it one day.
i hope you do!!! it'd be so fun to play
Welp, I blame myself for that one
Edit: oops spoilers
I played this game a really long time ago and couldn't find it again until now, and it's just as fantastic as I remember!
That’s awesome to hear, thank you!
Loved it!
youre kidding
The game’s code is spaghetti, sorry for that
yay
Nicely done!
thanks!
I remember doing something like this in fifth grade, very fun!
Loved this game and the concept!!!
Its kinda interesting how much you can ,,learn,, with just a few key words
That was a lot of fun! I put pink instead of red, but aside from that I got all of them right! Really good game!
I put "choose" instead of "help", but got everything else right! Don't know if the word was used in another context
Edit: Replayed it quickly, and yes that word was used at least twice, but one dialogue cannot be replayed after completing the person's request
i need staru gabu and tairu
the only one i got wrong apparently was writing "goodbye" instead of just "bye" haha
time: 36:24
words: 25/25
accuracy: 92%
where did i miss hahaha fun tho the math stumped me for a bit
omg how is 'woro' not pink?!
and yea 'staru' i could not figure that one out lol
you were very close haha
Nice game it took me 46mins, all words correct with a 92% accuracy
Time: 30:33
words: 25/25
accuracy:72%
Hope you make an asset pack with your art style! It’s whimsical
genuinely had an absolute BLAST playing this game.
finished off with 25/25 words and 96% accuracy, though it did take me almost 20 minutes. in the end, the word i missed (taiko(?)) wasn't mentioned after the first time so i couldn't remember where i got that word in my dictionary from. i guessed math, which was obviously wrong, but i think that was the only trouble i had with this.
super cute music, super cute design, absolutely awesome concept; i just wish it was longer because i was having so much fun. solid 10/10, a great little bite-sized game.
Thank you so much for playing!
my absolute pleasure!! thank you for dropping this gem. :)
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
Just discovered this bug too :( Firefox on Windows 11.
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