A Call from the Void by Oinkle
Your tenth birthday arrives, and you feel the familiar sting of loneliness, a constant companion in the crowded city. All you wished for was connection, someone to understand the quiet hum in your soul. Instead, your eccentric grandmother presents you with a dusty shortwave radio and a worn, leather-bound book filled with strange symbols and codes.
Using your new equipment, who knows what mysteries you'll learn. The deeper into space you go, the more the mysteries unravel.
-How to play-
Given the cypher book and the cue card, the goal is to translate the alien transmission into English words. Each transmission becomes progressively more difficult and different parts of the cypher book may have to be used, either using only one page or multiple pages at a time.
| Github | https://github.com/jsvolta/LudemDare57 |
| Itch.io | https://jaskiewm.itch.io/a-call-from-the-void |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/57/a-call-from-the-void |
Ratings
| Overall | 336th | 3.682⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 217th | 3.705⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 208th | 3.659⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 637th | 3.295⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 578th | 3.364⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 154th | 3.818⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 483th | 2.682⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 140th | 4.045⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 50🗳️ | 5🗨️ |
It could be because english is not my main language, but I couldn't get the codes to form any coherent word with the cyphers on the book
It'd be great to have some clue, of what cipher to use, or what amount of characters to shift the alphabet.
Cool idea and nice execution!

Not too much to comment on in terms of gameplay, what was there worked well enough. Atmosphere and so on pretty good as well. The only thing is that sometimes due to the resolution it was quite hard to make out some of the letters and especially the Morse code. Other than that, this is a great little game for a relaxed evening :)
Great game, had to pull out the CyberChef for a few of them :)
I love games that aren't afraid to challenge their audience like this. The poems are really sneakily beautiful.
I got stuck on the third riddle, I guess it has something to do with the "Peek into the void" page, and maybe the last one? I couldn't figure it out! But great atmosphere.
If you could add some hint, that would be lovely! :D