Grammar Dystopia by Xarras
Right after being awoken in the future, a worker from the Cryo-company ask you to go and get some food at the takeaway, cool huh? English has changed quite a bit in the last 1000 years, this software is the closest thing there is to make yourself more understandable, but you'll still have to think things through. Make use of the “notes” and write the correct form of the sentence asked.
We'll consider your "job" done if you can order all 3 dishes without making the chef go nuts with your poor English.
Keep in mind the notes from the tablet! At the left side you'll find a set of rules you must take into account when writing. At the right side a few exceptions of words that have changed over the years. Also with every order there will be more rules
'To make the game less punishing we've added a cheat-code you can use if you find yourself stuck on a level. The magic words to type are "I give up"'
Special thanks to Marc for the awesome design :)
Changelog
- Added feedback improvements when the new rules appear to increase the chance of noticing them
- Added multiple solutions for some of the levels
- Added cheat code
- Solved component positioning bugs
- Solved bugs with different browsers
- Fixed typo in one of the level sentences
- Added tablet fading when playing cinematic
- Removed hardcoded asset url's from the project
| HTML5 (web) | https://bigbuggames.github.io/ld40/ |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/grammar-dystopia |
Ratings
| Overall | 22th | 4.209⭐ | 69🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 18th | 4.191⭐ | 70🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1th | 4.493⭐ | 70🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 338th | 3.721⭐ | 70🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 257th | 4.037⭐ | 70🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 214th | 3.631⭐ | 67🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 3th | 4.507⭐ | 69🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 77th | 4.015⭐ | 69🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 38🗳️ | 47🗨️ |
Would love to play some more levels.
The only thing is, that it could get more complicated over time, the last two interactions were just too easy!
Po liked pep gapo!
Nice, very nice indeed. The look was amazing and the humour in the video clips was brilliant. The mix of video and hand drawn animations was lovely. Ended kinda early though, I was hoping it'll get even crazier with the rules.
Pretty much the only thing to complain about was that at first it wasn't clear that I was supposed to just go ahead and start typing. Maybe having a blinking cursor in the textbox would solve that. Also would have been nice to be able to edit the text I had already input. Like it was kinda annoying to have to type the whole sentence again just to change a starting syllable to correct one.
**Congratulationpen Ramsay, you have pode na gnizopa gapo.**
Thankpen Ramsay :D
Edit: nevermind, I was a noob. Currently on windows and I see I need to type the words. I was previously screaming in the microphone. The sounds and video is really funny! Really cool idea
The scene where he gives me the bill is pretty disturbing tho! HAHAHA
------------------------------- Here goes my best shot in "Neo English" -------------------
Wow, really creative dna funny gapo!
pep petrifax ipen pretty disturbing tho pep scene where he givepen po!
Check out my game if you would like!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/virus-detected
Good one!
In the beginning I didn't know what to do, so a tutorial would have been cool!
Overall very innovative and cool! :smiley:
Amazing idea and great deal of humor :D
I only really have two small complaints. One is the grammatical errors in the "survival tips" (perhaps a bit ironic?). I normally wouldn't mind too much, but one of the tips caused confusion (each word after "the" should be place at the end of the sentence) because of how it was written in game. The other is not being able to change where the caret is inside the text box. Meaning if I did a small typo, I had to backspace all the way back, and re-translate.
Other then those small issues, it was a blast to play. I had a lot of fun, and it's definitely a gem of LD40.
Well done!
now with your game everybody can speak english... OF THE FUTURE :o
really enjoyed it good job guys :)
My only complaint is that you can't edit your sentence in-place after you mess up (have to start over).
P.S: There's also a typo in the rule for 'the': it should be 'is placed' not 'it's placed'. Seems silly, but for a game about correctly following new grammar rules, it's kinda ironic.
@ionthas/@xarras: Yes :D
Cool game concept with interesting but not too hard puzzles, I agree with @jasperarmstrong on editing your sentence though.
The text to speech of the alien language was awesome too, may I ask what you used to create the audio?
In conclusion: this is the jam winner for me :)
https://youtu.be/Od8yYFv5wQ4