I loved the digital pen pal aspect, the core mechanic of just decoding was really enjoyable and meditative. The chill atsmophere helped this stand out. Great work!
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Letters from the Outside's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Originality | #683 | 3.716 | 3.824 |
| Presentation | #743 | 3.716 | 3.824 |
| Overall | #1333 | 3.201 | 3.294 |
| Fun | #2455 | 2.630 | 2.706 |
Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
Language is a barrier nobody has control. In this game you must decipher letters from people of outside and reply them in their language.
Did your team create the art for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
No
We used pre-existing art
Did your team create the audio for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
No
We used pre-existing audio
Comments
I like the atmosphere. This concept is definitely unique, never seen something removely similar. It managed to grab my attention for a pretty long time, although I never thought that translating things could be fun.
The translation text input is a bit buggy, and it caused me to lose the entire translation a couple of times. I wish the screen was bigger so the translator thing would not overlap with stuff. Also, some symbols were hard to read and required staring at the monitor, which adds some eye strain. Finally, I think there was too little time to translate stuff, at least for me.
Nonetheless, great job!
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Lost SignalThis game is really cool, super unique gameplay and approach to the theme! Very neat, great work!
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Jump CurseThis is nice, it feels very wholesome. The art and music choices I think add to that very well. Assuming it wasn't a design choice, I would have liked more a bigger window or something so that I didn't have to keep moving the translation book back and forth to be able to read both.
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Space-Slime ContinuumReally liked the atmosphere and the background music. It sure is a relaxing game.
The translating part is a bit tedious. After a while, you memorize the symbols and don't have to look at the translator that often, but it's really slow in the beginning.
How about first have some very short letters with repeating characters and then slowly ramp up the difficulty? This way, players can actually memorize the entire alphabet piece by piece.
Take a look at our game if you get the chance :)
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Ahead of the CurveNice game! I feel like there's should be more to it since it feels tedious quick since all you do is just translating text, and the small window is also a bit frustrating, but it is still a really beautiful game.
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Curse of MicroTranslationsI liked the concept and atmosphere of this game, but I'm not really sure what happened after I finished translating the first letter (couldn't proceed?).
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