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Thank you! I agree, Bitsy works really well for this sort of thing, and the jams are a great source of inspiration too.

Thank you! I'm really glad you enjoyed it, it was fun to work with the restriction of the jam theme.

I love the look of the foreign font, and the restaurant scene in particular was very funny!

I really enjoyed this and made sure to get (I think) all the different endings. Lovely use of humour, combined with the deeper message.

Very funny, the 'bad ending' was a great surprise! I liked how each letter had their own character.

Is F meant to have some dialogue? (Or maybe they are just the strong, silent type?)

Really nicely done, great use of repetition and minimalism

Really nice presentation, great use of just black and white and I like the way you merge letters to make patterns (like X and N). The heart room was my personal favourite.

Thank you for bringing my attention to 'The art of computer designing' too - I'll definitely check that out.

Short and sweet! I really like the way the text is presented.

Really clever idea, I liked it a lot! Two notes:

• It would be good if the characters repeated their requests - I initially spoke to everyone before I worked out what to do, then had to reload to check the requests.
• The bird's request is spelt differently in UK vs US, which confused me for a while, having never seen the US version before - maybe both could be accepted?

I like the art, the puzzle mechanic is really well executed and the puzzle difficulty (other than the language barrier!) is just right - not so hard as to be frustrating, but challenging enough that you get that "aha!" moment when you solve each one.

musi lili mi li pona tawa sina la, pilin mi li pona mute a! mi sona ala e ni: pali kalama. taso mi wile sona e ona lon tenpo (en musi) kama. 

musi mi li pona tawa sina la, ni li pona mute tawa mi a!

mi wile e ni: nimi "Lasin" li pona tawa nimi pi toki Inli "Latin". taso nimi "Lasina" li kepeken mute li pona mute tawa nimi "lingua Latina" lon toki Lasina.

mi wile ala ante e musi mi ale (ona li pali mute). taso mi wile kepeken nimi "Lasina" lon pali mi ale lon tenpo kama. tenpo ni la, mi ante e sitelen sewi.

I'm glad you're enjoying it! I'm really pleased that so many people have been interested in such a niche game.

I'm not planning any additional stories in the world of kiwen kon, but I do have (very rough) plans for a second Playdate Pulp game (completely unconnected to this one), which I plan to make available in English and Toki Pona (Latin and SP) from the start. No idea when it'll be released, but it will almost certainly be free.

I do have a browser game that's playable in Toki Pona: https://billsmugs.itch.io/late-for-school - it's not available on Playdate, but should work in any browser (including phones). It's shorter and much more linear than kiwen kon though.

Brilliant game, with absolutely gorgeous art. I can't wait to play whatever you release next!

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it, it's the first time I've made something like this and I wasn't sure if people would like it.

I've been pleasantly surprised by the cross-over too, as I say below I was slightly worried I might be the only member of the target audience! So far 29 people have downloaded it, which isn't a lot, but it's well beyond my expectations for something so niche.

pona a! I've updated it today to fix a few grammar issues.

ni li pona tawa sina la, musi Soweli Mu tan jan Talu li pona kin.

Thank you for the kind words, this comment really made my day when I saw it!

(I thought I replied to this when you originally posted it, but it looks like the reply got lost, sorry.)

I've uploaded a basic sitelen Lasin version - I've given it a quick test, but let me know if you spot any problems with it.

mi pilin pona mute a, tan sitelen sina!

Thank you for commenting! I was a bit worried that the combination of Toki Pona speaker and Playdate owner might be a niche that turns out to be just me! 😄

Doing a full conversion to the Latin alphabet would be a bit tricky, but doing just the dialog (i.e. leaving the splash screen, "tutorial" text and all the places in the environment where sitelen pona is displayed) should be quite easy. I'll try to look into it this week. It won't be perfect, but should be enough to make progressing through the game a lot quicker for anyone who's not that familiar with sitelen pona. Because of the way Pulp works, it'll be a separate download rather than an in-game option.

I was going to post about the game on the Toki Pona subreddit today (although might wait until I have a sitelen Lasin version ready), not sure if it's maybe too niche to post to more general Playdate communities? I've signed up to the "ma pona pi toki pona" Discord, but never actually posted - I'm more used to traditional forums so Discord is a bit intimidating - it feels like I'd be a stranger jumping into an ongoing unrelated group chat to advertise my game!

If you're a member of any communities you think would be interested in it, feel free to post about it - if you want you can link to my site where I've posted (in Toki Pona) about both this and a Bitsy game that I've made that's playable in Toki Pona (as well as an excellent Toki Pona Bitsy game that I haven't got anything to do with but strongly recommend called "Soweli Mu"): https://toki.pona.billsmugs.com/lipu-tenpo/2022-05-08-musi-pi-ilo-nanpa/

This was my first time playing anything like this and I really enjoyed it. Thank you for making it and for donating it to the Texas trans rights bundle!

I wrote a bit about it (including a link near the bottom to the story I created by playing) here: gemini://gem.billsmugs.com/gemlog/2022-03-24-solo-journalling-rpgs.gmi

(If you don't have a Gemini client, you can read it in a web browser here)

Lovely art and relaxing music, probably my favourite of the jam!

ni li pona mute a!

There are a few games on the site that can be played (in some cases exclusively) in the constructed language Toki Pona, but currently it's not possible to select it as a language for a game in the metadata section of an upload, or to browse via language code. Toki Pona now has an official ISO 639-3 code ('tok'), so it would be great if it was added to the list - currently a game that's playable in English and Toki Pona either has to leave the language metadata blank or in a misleadingly incomplete state.

ISO 639-3: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/tok

Examples of games currently using the toki-pona tag: https://itch.io/games/tag-toki-pona