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Moon Message by exozetart

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made by exozetart for Ludum Dare 59 (JAM)

MOON MESSAGE

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A calm decoding puzzle game with a hopeful story.

:warning: While playing the game I noticed an encryption mistake I made in the 7th puzzle (which appears to be bade64 code). So if you’re stuck at this puzzle, here’s the solution: Spoiler: !> I don’t know if I can trust you.

:video_game: Controls

Mouse and Keyboard (for typing text)

This game should also work on mobile! :iphone:

Created with Godot 4.6 Art: Handdrawn in Procreate

NO AI

Credits

Programming, Art & Story by exozetart

Music by Tunetank , Mo Medeiros and Tomomi Kato from Pixabay Font by Michael Moss

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Link https://exozetart.itch.io/moon-message
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/moon-message

Ratings

Given 1🗳️ 0🗨️

Feedback

Sam Horner
Apr 21st · 15:32 UTC
Fun little decription game, and love the art style
gamebuilder
Apr 21st · 19:04 UTC
I like the mood of this game: meditative and calm. It stands in contrast to the mental concentration required. I wish you could provide an ASCII table in the game, or use simpler codes. I liked solving the reversed-letters message, it was easy enough. Then again, maybe I am just intellectually slothful. The idea of being on the moon and receiving cryptic messages is a good one.
matt2728
Apr 21st · 22:56 UTC
The art style is really nice.
It is a bit of work to decode the messages :sweat_smile:
Great job!
🎤 exozetart
May 08th · 23:48 UTC
@matt2728 thank you for playing and the feedback! Yeeeeah I think it might been a little too hard and takes more time to play than I imagined haha, gotta keep that in mind in the future :laughing:

@gamebuilder thanks so much for the feedback! I think a complete ASCII table would make a great addition! I appreciate it a lot :v:

@sam-horner thanks a lot, so happy you enjoyed it!
Wizard
May 09th · 00:56 UTC
Really enjoyed the slower pace with solving the puzzles, but I got stuck of Puzzle 6 I think, it was morse code and am sure it said
!>I found a sanctuary

Maybe I'm just being a dumb dumb but I for the life of me could not figure it out. I got all the other puzzles just not that one. But don't let my ineptitude take away from the fact that this is a really cool puzzle game with a pretty interesting story. Well done.
LDJam user 257640
May 09th · 10:55 UTC
That was pretty neat, relaxing atmosphere. I think others interpret signal as sth you need to rush into, so it was nice change of a pace. And music was pretty complementary in that, tho it stopped playing at some point.

For a long time I didn't play with any ciphers so it was also nice to do that again but I would recommend in ceaser page to remind player about how whole alphabet really looks like lmao. Also page with ascii didn't contain **space**, would be helpful if we don't wanna send players to look at wikipedia.

Other than that I would also make **enter** send the signal, and I think UI could be improved if notebook was moved away from the screen so we could better see the signal. OR if the intention is too not do writing and looking simultaneously, then I would move it more to the center to hide the screen better. Because for now it's in this awkward zone inbetween.

Pretty sure I reached the same signal as @wizard and couldn't figure out how to progress further.