This was wonderful! It was pretty tough though, I doubt I would've been able to finish it without the hint system, so thanks for implementing that for dumbos like me. The pattern of writing became pretty repetitive, but it was kinda funny because of it, so I don't think I have any real negative notes. Good work!

Very fun game, simplistic but enjoyable!

@tolviere Thank you so much for the kind words :)
The hint system was one of the first features haha

Cute game!the smoke is hint too,I like that

It's a good interpretation of the theme, and pretty fun too. Would love to see this expanded into a proper game. Visuals are great, and the music is top notch. Poor Grog!

Wonderful art and really fun! I want more! RIP Grog's wife.

It's a great game; I really enjoyed it. I can't think of a single flaw.

Nice music! Original idea and fun story, I liked it!

great game

Really enjoyed this one, super on point, matches the theme, graphics are simply fantastic. Bowing to your designer here, folks.

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love this short naritive, and the way the player kinda learns the language. but it is hard for non native english players maybe, as it's using some sort of simplified english. Sometimes i had to use the hints just to discover i had to use a simpler and more basic sort of grammar

Thanks for the feedback @magus77! We wanted to have one symbol for every word, so having words like "the", "is", "a", "and" didn't make sense. But fair -it's probably tricky for non-natives!

But also, it's OK to use the hint system. The game isn't neccesarily intended to be solvable without using hints :)

cool narrative game! your game a little reminded me of our game that we made last year. first time playing I spent a long time looking for an icon for the question "why?". I thought it is a vomitting emoji :D I'm waiting for the continuation to find out what Grog's interpretation of the TikTok emoji...

Awesome, I really like both the audio and the visuals, and the idea is great too! It has a sort of 'Pictionary' feeling.

The fact that I can get the answers so easily by typing them out shows how well you did designing the puzzles. It's very intuitive which really shows how well you did communicating the puzzle

Poor man. Very fun how you kept me interested of seeing how basically a single sentence would go for 5 minutes

It made me feel a bit sad, poor Grog 🥺
I like the interpretation of the theme, the melancholic music, and the simple yet authentic art style

Very nice concept. Relaxing and pretty innovative. Nice :)

Awesome submittal... I had a lot of fun trying to figure out these puzzles. Hints definitely helped!

really fun. poor groog

I would apricate typo resistance, and like root word matching like *ed

Fun little idea with meme style caveman voices and phrases - really enjoyed it!

Very fun! I enjoyed the voice and the pictures of the signals, and it was very intuitive. I was invested in the narrative! My only suggestion would be to add a fullscreen button on itch; picking out the right signals to send was tricky because they were so tiny!

The idea is cool, very good one

This was surprisingly peaceful, great job on the audio (all of it)! And I liked figuring out each puzzle. It would have been nice if correct letters from incorrect words could have filled in to help, but overall I really liked it!

Surprisingly fun. Wish there was a button to have the caveman repeat the question.

grog see grog game. grog like. much ooga booga in game. grog congratulate devs.

Very well made! I had lots of fun trying to play like a caveman! Some things I noted / have questions about:

- One time I encountered a word which needed (in my opinion) to be past tense: "fall" instead of "fell"
- There are lots of icons, are those decoys? Or did you have more plans or is it random?
- I love the music, did you play that on a real guituar?
- I like how there are very modern symbols in the list haha, like a lightbulb. These guys are modern!

@wouter52 thanks for playing!

Yes there is a typo. We didn't have time to re-record audio, and the bug in the puzzle snuck in because of that. Hopefully the hint system helped people get past it.

Every decoy icon was originally part of the story, yes. The only icon(s) that were fully cut were ones I redrew, and which would be confusing to include.

Music was recorded by @mischa-98 on my wife's guitar 😅

Quite fun and a cool concept, my only comment is that subtitles for the dialogue would be nice.

Wow, well done! And surprisingly sad . . . poor Grog! I was really hoping I'd run across someone doing a game about smoke signals. This was implemented really well! The only thing I really struggled with was that some symbols could be used for more than one word (i.e. "make" and "know"). The hints came in handy with that, though, otherwise I'd probably be stuck forever as my brain is tired and not think good. Nice work!

Good and simple game. A bit of looping and lots of unused symbols, but good job!

Great game, I think what makes it is the two way conversation it's like two games in one. Some variations in the words were a little annoying to get exactly right i.e. right tense or with or without the s, there are software libraries that do that sort of thing which would make it a little more friendly, so thank you for having the hint system

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Nice visuals and the theme fits well! Would love to see more phrases and some randomization in the future

Great entry. I loved the feedback. "Uh-huh" grunts of the cavemen. I had a little trouble with "wife" because, well, marriage probably wasn't a thing and I tried "girl" and "lady" first. Other than that, things were pretty clear.

Also not sure how they had an established signal for "wheel" if she just invented it!