Sethian

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1. 08 Nov 2018Rock, Paper, Shotgun

   Podcast: Of murders and mysteries

   Esteemed friends. I have gathered you here today to speak about a most terrible crime, perpetrated in this very room. Late last night, the RPS podcast, affectionately known to some of you as the Electronic Wireless Show , was found dead beside the divan. No, do not get up Mrs Lea

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2. 24 Nov 2017Rock, Paper, Shotgun

   Clickuorice Allsort: Writing systems in videogames

   This is three weeks old, but time is a construct. Philip Boyes is an expert on writing systems and cryptic alphabets, and he has looked at games that use fictional script over on Eurogamer. Zelda’s ancient Hylian is mentioned, and the rune-like alphabet of the Elder Scrolls gets

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3. 30 Jun 2017Rock, Paper, Shotgun

   Have You Played Sethian?

   Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. In Sethian you find an alien computer and, as an archeologist of such things, you must decipher the language of its ancient users. It s a very clever piece of int

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4. 06 Jan 2017Rock, Paper, Shotgun

   Wot I Think: Sethian

   Sethian came out, perhaps unwisely , in the midst of the annual November deluge. It s a little niche – a single-screen mystery about typing commands into an alien computer to find out more about the extinct race behind the device. But the computer functions only in the local extr

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5. 05 Dec 2016Rock, Paper, Shotgun

   Decipher an alien language in Sethian

   Alien linguistics thriller Arrival is a beezer movie, according to my internet mates, but I still haven t been able to see it. Once again videogames come to the rescue. Sethian is a text adventure where the text is all unrecognisable shapes and symbols an alien computer that need

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