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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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?
STONA!!!!!!
WHAT IS THE COLOR ON HER HEAD?
WHITE=??
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 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
17:41, 25/25 and got 96%. I put goodbye instead of bye.
Very fun
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
Nice game. The only ones I got wrong were "give" instead of "please" and color" instead of "help"
I too had the same problem.
I got colour instead of help as well.
In other conversations, like the one before you save the cat, waatu was used too, so it couldn't be "color".
I've already saved the "kitten" which I named "cat" so I didn't realize that dialog also used "help"... I think a replay system in the notebook would go a long ways
Gabu laqot this game!
I’m sure i have a good time melqita this game ;)
That was so good! I would totally pay for a full game!!
That was fun! I never would have gotten stona, except by guessing. Cool game.
For some reason the dictionary doesn't count one of the words as goodbye, but instead, just "bye"? It's like how others complained that the word for kitty doesn't count "cat".
Wow FeatureKreep!!! This game was soooo good! I loved this. I played it twice and wish so much there was more. I am a language lover and this really got my gears going! Such a cool concepts. reminds a bit of Obra dinn. could have had a function to like that game that can verify that guess is right.. anyway so so good! Thanks! Consider making a full elaborate game of this with bigger world that slowly unfolds more and more words!
Good job!:)
Is there no way to delete a definition if you typo? (or mean to type somewhere else but forgot to press enter?) Backspace doesn't work.
It does work, You need to click on the definition again.
really cool game!
Apparently "cat" is not a viable synonym for "kitty". I had 23/25 right, and cat was one of the wrong ones.
I'll make sure to account for synonyms, thanks for the feedback!
25/25 84%
---Spoiler---
Massi Bye-> Goodbye
Kumo Pork -> Green -oops-
Deyu Green -> Deyu
Mawku Kitty -> Cat
how am I supossed to get kumo though :C
Hmm, I’ll add some synonyms to make the scoring more fair.
As for pork, you can read one of the signs to help you figure out what Thesauri like to eat. Look at the store owner’s stand, see what’s missing there and and pay attention to his dialogue.