Secret Rune Keyboard (Volume 3 Spoilers Herein!)
Jan 19, 2018 17:10:49 GMT -5
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Post by verdantfruu on Jan 19, 2018 17:10:49 GMT -5
Here's something kind of fun. End-of-volume spoilers for Volume 3 ahead, and i won't be using spoiler tags.
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The secret rune system for Volume 3 was known internally as "MPCese" (mostly because we couldn't come up with a clever name for it )
If you solved a few of the V3 puzzles, you'll know that each rune stood in for one of the phonemes in the English language. There are 44 in all.
In order to more quickly generate messages and to check my own work, i developed this interactive MPCese typewriter:
[temporarily edited by Moderator]
The area above the keyboard is where the message appears as you punch it in. Rolling over each of the symbols would give you a usage list to help you choose the correct rune for the sound you're trying to make. So for example, if you roll over the u rune, you see "lug, monkey, blood, double" in the status line.
There's a list of prefabricated common words at the bottom ("on with he as you do me" - oo-er!) to help speed things along. When you click these, the prefab word appears in your composition space.
There's even a Translate button which interprets what you've written (often hilariously, since it's phonetic). Translate gives each word a little English tag beneath it. If a word was way off, you could use the Label button to re-label it and "teach" the keyboard what you were trying to say. i dreamed that eventually, this program could be rigged up to a database and we could keep a dynamic dictionary of symbol-encoded words.
My smaller-scale hope was that this keyboard could be offered as a nice little reward to solvers who opened Vault 3, so that the community could continue sending secret messages to each other, and get more use out of the fridge magnets in the fourth issue.
Alas, like many things, it wasn't to be. (But rest assured, i am hard at work on things that are to be, and i hope to announce something shortly.)
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The secret rune system for Volume 3 was known internally as "MPCese" (mostly because we couldn't come up with a clever name for it )
If you solved a few of the V3 puzzles, you'll know that each rune stood in for one of the phonemes in the English language. There are 44 in all.
In order to more quickly generate messages and to check my own work, i developed this interactive MPCese typewriter:
[temporarily edited by Moderator]
The area above the keyboard is where the message appears as you punch it in. Rolling over each of the symbols would give you a usage list to help you choose the correct rune for the sound you're trying to make. So for example, if you roll over the u rune, you see "lug, monkey, blood, double" in the status line.
There's a list of prefabricated common words at the bottom ("on with he as you do me" - oo-er!) to help speed things along. When you click these, the prefab word appears in your composition space.
There's even a Translate button which interprets what you've written (often hilariously, since it's phonetic). Translate gives each word a little English tag beneath it. If a word was way off, you could use the Label button to re-label it and "teach" the keyboard what you were trying to say. i dreamed that eventually, this program could be rigged up to a database and we could keep a dynamic dictionary of symbol-encoded words.
My smaller-scale hope was that this keyboard could be offered as a nice little reward to solvers who opened Vault 3, so that the community could continue sending secret messages to each other, and get more use out of the fridge magnets in the fourth issue.
Alas, like many things, it wasn't to be. (But rest assured, i am hard at work on things that are to be, and i hope to announce something shortly.)