Really short, but a fun concept! I wish there was more weird stuff that happened, though. I love that brief glitched-out static section. All the lore behind the game is neat, too.
Question - is the "encrypted" text at the boot and end screens decryptable? I've been kinda chipping at it and it looks like I'm making some progress but the whole thing could be stupid luck lol
I'm making what feels like progress. I don't need any hints yet, but knowing that it is actually solvable and I'm not just getting lucky by picking up patterns that don't exist is good to know. I love games like this where there's so much more happening than just the game itself. Yeah, the ROM is short - but there's this whole puzzle here. I also chuckled at the braille code on the paper. I don't speak Italian, but I was able to confirm my suspicions with Google haha
Spoilers of decoded English messages below. Note the final message has a minor whoopsy with one of the glyphs in a few words...
[EDIT] Solved! The end message has some typos - the "T" and "S" characters are similar, and I guess those dang aliens just weren't totally fluent in earthly languages and made a minor mistake, but once the fusion completed, it all made sense ;)
The final message decodes to:
WELCOME SHE FUSION WAS SUCCESSFUL PROCEED WISH SHE MISSION
It should be:
WELCOME THE FUSION WAS SUCCESSFUL PROCEED WITH THE MISSION
Here's how the boot sequence decoded for me. Only word I'm not totally confident on is "ENROACH":
SYSTEM BOOT... COMPLETED HUMAN DETECTED AT THE CONTROLS CALCULATING POTENTIAL SPREAD HIGH POTENTIAL GENETIC STRUCTURE COMPATIBILITY STRUCTURE COMPATIBLE WITH DRONES CELL CHECK CELL NO [RELEASED] CELL SO [DECEASED] CELL NE [HIBERNATED] CELL SE [DECEASED] COGNITIVE INFO REQUIRED STARTING ENROACH PROGRAM CELL N
