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suno pi tomo tawa (Traffic Light) by jan Sate

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made by jan Sate for Ludum Dare 59 (COMPO)

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Rules: * This is a multitask game. There are two traffic lights. * Key mapping: "456" is mapped to "QWE" on this emulator. "123" is still "123". * Wait for green light and press the button corresponds to the image shown promptly and you get a score. * You lose if you pressed the wrong key or being too slow. Press "F" ("V" on the HTML5 emulator) to restart * The glyph below is "pakala". It means that you lose the game: pakala.png

nasin musi: * sitelen "456" li nena "QWE" lon ilo sona sina * o awen e suno laso. ni la sitelen li kama lon. o pilin e nena pi sitelen pona. * sina pilin e nena ike la sina pakala. sina awen mute la sina kin li pakala. o pakala ala! * sina pakala la o pilin e nena "F" (ni li nena "V" lon ilo sona sina)

Link https://johnearnest.github.io/Octo/index.html?key=U-qgbXGY
Link https://johnearnest.github.io/Octo/index.html?key=U-qgbXGY
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/suno-pi-tomo-tawa-traffic-light

Ratings

Overall 280th 2.615⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Fun 261th 2.615⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 251th 2.808⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Theme 191th 3.404⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 225th 3.058⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Humor 202th 1.886⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Mood 270th 2.46⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Given 23🗳️ 26🗨️

Feedback

Chomby
Apr 20th · 13:07 UTC
I like the game. I could get through two lights before missing the timing. The symbols are distinct enough to tell apart.
LDJam user 179040
Apr 20th · 13:25 UTC
This was fun! I like the esoteric nature of the glyphs, and you used the theme really well. The basic visuals in the small window really grabbed me. Some of the key-mapping could've been clearer but I eventually figured it out. It took me several tries to get going with it but I finally hit my stride and got what I think is a decent score, haha. Thanks!

![ldss1.png](///raw/06b/b2/z/70980.png)
BarnabeWild
Apr 20th · 14:49 UTC
Great brain teaser, pretty hard! simple and fun challenge!
freamdev
Apr 20th · 16:20 UTC
Really interesting and educational game, educational in the sense of I learned a lot about myself, for example I cannot due two things at the same time or remember things. Nice entry!
hotaloca
Apr 21st · 03:33 UTC
Very nice mini-game! I liked the visual and glyphs a lot too, and this game proved surprisingly difficult for me :) Anyway, great take on theme and super work!
Rafa Fiedo
Apr 21st · 19:14 UTC
wow, very nice mini-game :D
i had very hard first minutes to understand this game and control mapping.
It would be easier if 4,5,6 would be like... 4 5 6 on keyboard haha
some audio effects would be great very helpful for it!
so after understand what it's going on that was a very nice game!

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PurpledArtFrog
Apr 21st · 19:58 UTC
Not too obvious to what you're suppose to do.. but I like the look of the game and the simplicity of the visuals :thumbsup_tone1:

Left you a rating :smile:
nullval
Apr 21st · 20:23 UTC
Very challenging and difficult. The sprites/glyphs are very recognizable so that's nice, but the time limit seems very short (or maybe I'm just panicking easily) and the fact that there is no "lives" but immediate death when you misclick.

It's a nice minimalistic game though, great job.
Meta-link
Apr 22nd · 13:23 UTC
Cool game ! It's a bit hard to get into since the key mapping is a bit odd, and it's really fast even at the start, but when you got into it it's really fun. The visuals are cool too.

Good job :slight_smile:
mahalis
Apr 23rd · 00:21 UTC
Wow this is hard! Even once I got used to the key mapping, it’s a lot to parse at once. It’s a fun challenge though. Feels like a retro game gadget from the 90s. Well done!
henk
Apr 23rd · 17:13 UTC
Not bad. I don't know much about CHIP-8 but I assume it's a very constrained system to program for.

![sumo_hs.png](///raw/437/c5/z/727bd.png)
Jesús González
Apr 23rd · 19:56 UTC
Wow this is very technically impressive. Now I'll have to check out more about CHIP-8.
VenomousMouse
Apr 24th · 08:24 UTC
Good idea, i like the minimalism.
🎤 jan Sate
Apr 24th · 14:24 UTC
@jesus-gonzalez Thanks! If you think that it's impressive, I'm actually making a physical CHIP-8 game console. That's why I'm making this game in the first place. This game will be included in the game console! :D
zbrogdom
Apr 27th · 20:43 UTC
Well, this is hard
Wendel Scardua
Apr 28th · 23:18 UTC
Funny how, even if I don't know the language itself, I recognize it as toki pona 😅. I assume the glyphs are random toki pona words as well? I tried playing this but I'm not coordinated enough to score more than 1 point, apparently.

Out of curiosity I tried to search if there was a CHIP-8 emulator for the NES and someone already did it (as the person who keeps making NES games for LD, the thought of making such emulator crossed my mind 😅)
Jimbly
Apr 29th · 00:24 UTC
My high score - also 23! Took a while to get into the flow of it, and then I felt like I was doing okay =). Nicely challenging, nice simple visuals to fit the simplicity of the game, I like it. I wish the keys I had to press were actually the ones displayed in the game though =).
automatonvx
May 05th · 00:27 UTC
Neat idea, but too hard for me :/
LDJam user 352490
May 06th · 05:38 UTC
Pretty fun little mini-game! The graphics are simple, but kind of perfect for what it is. My high score:

![multitask.png](///raw/ae0/65/z/73220.png)