Morse - Tower defense that teaches Morse code by singing the Kaiser's Navy

  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account
Ughubughughughughughghlug

Ughubughughughughughghlug

kiwifarms.net
Joined
May 14, 2019
Interesting little typing game. I played the demo. The price looks high for what it is, but what you've got here - I have a huge interest in games teaching stuff through novel/metaphorical gameplay mechanics - is a Morse code typing game that uses the setting of WW1's naval campaign (you're a radioman) for flavor. You have a grid down which ships are coming and a limited amount of them that you can let through before losing the level. The grid uses words with lose, evocative theming, like "WESTBOUND," "DESTROYER," "BLOCKADE," etc., and the way you target a particular spot is by typing it in in Morse, hold for dashes, click for dits. Then it just layers on mechanics around it. The demo isn't very long at all but I already found you pick it up really fast. I think there's supposed to be modes or as you go further down the campaign levels based around not having the cheat sheet, but the more complex it gets the more you're expected to rely on muscle memory, not looking.

Edit: It also takes a lot of inspiration from Battleship in terms of zeroing in on targets through firing.
 
Last edited:
looks very cool, not interesting in learning morse code though, great concept regardless.
 
herefortheactualthreads said:
looks very cool, not interesting in learning morse code though, great concept regardless.
Click to expand...
Yeah I made a post somewhere else on here, after seeing it, about how it's one of those useless things that I've always felt obligated to learn and then at some point I look around and realize that if it was a dying skill when I was little, a thing for Boomers, it is dead now.
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
it is dead now.
Click to expand...
❌❌❌
1771194005855.png

There's still no technology that enables direct worldwide communication with a key, radio, and wire.
 
Morse code provided the inspiration for Bell Labs scientists to come up with the idea of programming, how a series of 1s (on) and 0s (off) can mean something and build that into what we use today.

It probably isn't very useful unless you're kidnapped and blinking or tapping what you really mean while insisting that you're fine and you're treated well.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom