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GitHub repository URL
https://github.com/Fxll3n/Ciphers-Please
Game description
You are a newly recruited army cryptologist. You sit in a tight and messy corner desk with an almost ancient computer to use for decryption and encryption. Everyday you find messages pinned on your pinboard that you either need to encrypt or decrypt. At the end of each day you get your pay based on your performance.
Theme interpretation
The theme of secrets was interpreted as military secrets and espionage. This is shown through the narrative and the core gameplay mechanic of using ciphers to decode hidden transmissions.
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I like the idea….but I struggled what exactly to do. I started with the plain text “cypher” and tried to copy paste the note into the “user entry”…but I didn’t find a way to do this. and then I typed the text and I probably made a typo and then failed…. for the other cyphers, I wasn’t quite sure how to operate the computer.
but well done anyways of submitting to the game jam.
I want to say, it’s a really interesting game. I like the audio and the way you pick cyphers and place them on the monitor. However, I struggled with the controls for decryption and often found myself lost. I didn’t know when I was doing it right or wrong.
I understand your frustration. As we started quite late we had to rush a few things and simply scrap some other parts. One of those parts was a tutorial. I understand that not everyone is nerdy like me and can do most of these ciphers in their head or by memory. We also didn’t have time to provide players with proper feedback when completing a cipher. I wish that maybe in the future, if I or someone else on the team is willing, we could fix these issues and give this game some major polish and reworking. I really do appreciate your response though! I hope you atleast found the idea interesting :)