Pardon my Alienese by MatthewLevy
Khago Balekte is one of the funniest comedians in the galaxy, but his Glopflix special definitely has some blue material. That's why the Intergalactic Broadcast Network hired you to censor it. Bleep it, pixelate it, and cut the feeds if his performance becomes too risqué. What do you mean you don't speak Alienese?
Learn new alien swear words and offensive gestures every episode!
Every offensive joke you miss is going to cost the network a hefty fine, so make sure you're accurate and fast on the button.
You can censor any of the previous 5 words or gestures by pressing the corresponding button:
- Bleep — Orange
- Pixelate — Blue
- Cut the feeds — Red
If you'd like an easier experience, press the green button and it will pretty much give you the answers. I think the game is more fun without it though.
Minor Bug Fixes
- Fixed emojis not rendering in HTML5 version
Post LD Version 1.0.1
- Increased game resolution to 1920x1080 (still resizable)
- Moved subtitles so they don't block the bottom of the screen
- In case of conflicting/overlapping rules, the more severe rule will take priority (e.g. Cut the feeds is more severe than bleep)
- Fixed a bug where you could both win and lose simultaneously
- Number of episodes resets to 0 on loss
- Decreased rules text size to fit more on the paper, but there's a more scalable system planned for the future
Post LD Version 1.1.0
- Added microphone feedback system. When feedback occurs, adjust the slider to fix it. If left unresolved for too long, viewers will lose interest and you will lose money
- Added “wrong answer” sound effect.
- Added infraction log showing recent mistakes
- Fixed a bug where you could censor tokens outside of the active window (i.e. 6th most recent word/gesture).
Ratings
| Overall | 331th | 3.7⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 288th | 3.6⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 52th | 4.1⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 304th | 3.95⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 620th | 3.275⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 117th | 4.025⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 37th | 4.225⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 492th | 3.525⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 34🗳️ | 20🗨️ |
Really good job guys!
Eventually I ran in to a few issues being that sometimes rulesets would overlap with each other leaving me unsure what took precedent and once enough rules got added the subtitles covered the last rule making it near impossible to read anymore. Small issues in what I thought was a very enjoyable game.
Keep up the great work! Make more stuff like this - love experimental games!
@karenchik Glad you enjoyed it! I definitely had some fun making the animations.
@jiamu-zhao That's exactly what we were going for!
@pegasys Initially we thought of delaying the TV feed, but it just wasn't working. Would have liked to add more effects and sounds for correct/incorrect answers, just ran out of time.
@dk5000p Easy mode highlights each word in the correct color, that's the only change. Each episode still adds difficulty by adding rules and increasing the chance of longer words
@braktheman The goal was a chaotic multitasking simulator, even more wild than we had time for. E.g. Ad slots, broadcast issues, audio glitches, mundane corporate tasks, etc., all at once. If multiple rules apply to a word, take the more serious action (cut the feeds > pixelate > bleep), we could have made that more clear. Would definitely like to improve the rules page, it was kind of thrown together last minute.
At some point not only my brain was full with the rules, but also the cheat sheet. Also, the subtitles were covering it. I think it would have been nice to put the subtitles between the screen and the cheat sheet + controls at the bottom, with more space for the rules. ;)
I replayed it, and noticed that the rules were different this time, nice! I also enjoyed all the gestures, especially the dab :laughing:
With the green button, I would have enjoyed if it gave me a little bit more time to think for myself if I should press a button. :)
Cool sound track :thumbsup:
Jokes aside, a really fun game with an interesting idea! Had a small issue: sometimes rules contradicted each other, for example: there could be rules about pixelating and cutting off the broadcast for the same gesture, and if you follow the latter, it's considered wrong.
If you plan to expand on this, I have some ideas: what if 'baby mode' was on by default, but as the game progresses, it would start returning false positives sometimes? If you are not attentive enough, you lose money. Or sometimes subtitles could go off and you have to only rely on your eyes and ears. Or the censoring panel breaks and you have to do something creative to censor the broadcast, like say something out loud or throw a blanket on Khago. There's a lot of potential!
Excellent work -- well done!
Thanks for the laughs. Excellent idea, great core mechanic.
Hilarious premise. 10/10