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In Machine Yearning, players create and memorize a language from ‘nonsense’

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Machine Yearning is all about trying to convince machines that you aren’t human, doing so by carefully navigating captchas to match shapes with nonsense words and then recall them later. Game Developer spoke with developer Daniel Ellis of Tiny Little Keys to talk about its origins as a game where players make up the rules … Read more

City of Six Moons is a board game written in an alien language that you'll need to translate to play, and you'll never know if you've done it right.

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The upcoming board game City of Six Moons takes the difficulty of deciphering rulebooks to a whole new level by writing all of its rules in an alien language that you'll have to translate in order to play. Best of all? You'll never know if you've done it correctly. Designer Amabel Holland describes the single-player … Read more