LOK Digital - a puzzle game about keywords

This is a really cool puzzle book that came out a few months ago, but newly a digital version has been announced and now I'm playing it. The visuals and sound design are super satisfying and I look forward to the full version.
The original puzzle book had a small element of "rule discovery" but I'm not sure if it comes across in the digital version. In the puzzle book you had to analyze the level designs and come up with the rule that would make sense as the one solution to the puzzle - but in here, it will just do the action, you don't have to think about that.
The physical puzzle book is paid, but the PDF is free.
store.steampowered.com/app/22...
www.blazgracar.com/lok
"LOK Digital is the video-game adaptation of LOK, a puzzle book by Letibus Design. It expands on the original paper puzzle premise with new mechanics and paper-transcending twists."
also the idea that there are new mechanics are interesting!

[@BlazGracar]

Thanks for the feature, Icely! :)

[@05degrees]

Wow this is quite a thing you’ve made!! 👏👏 Mindblowing.

[@polycolious2540]

Personally, I think the physical book copy (or pdf) is the better experience, especially considering the splash page and hidden puzzles as well as the fact that the digital version provides a visual for the words which spoils some aspects of the puzzle solving process. The learning process is more natural in the book and I love that part of it, which is sadly a part that’s difficult to translate into the digital version.

[@IcelyPuzzles]

the steam page mentions they are planning some "paper transcending" twists so maybe that will make up for it, but yeah. there is something nice about it being more approachable for people unfamiliar with paper puzzles, due to not having the rule discovery, but I was also hoping it would be somewhat more faithful to the book than it was :p

[@raindrinker_dev]

Oh man thanks a lot for playing our little game!! It might be a bit disappointing for people who already played the book and know the rules already or miss some of the rules discovery that's so hard to adapt to digital but we're thinking on it, and also we hope the new mechanics and content will make up for it!

[@mushykitten]

I know people have already said it's missing some of the Learning Process but it's not just a general thing, it's specifically the fact that the only way to learn what the rules are is thinking what Must be true in order for the puzzle to have a solution. it's like you're inventing the mechanics. that, specifically, is what I'm missing.
Especially with keywords like BE which just forces you to laugh. like the LEAST powerful thing you can do is give yourself the power to CHOOSE ANY LETTER and arriving at that conclusion looks way more satisfying than the letter menu just popping up (idk, haven't played the digital)

[@I_Was_Named_This_Way...]

I quickly downloaded and finished the game before you pressed play, AMAZING GAME! I printed the PDF so I could play the rest, still not done that.

[@tobysuren]

Finished this game on the PDF a while back (except for the puzzle on the very first page which seemed too menacing for me lol). One of the main charms of the game (for me at least) was the idea of rule discovery without any feedback, but this adaptation doesn't really line up with that. For an example, click the read more (spoilers for this video). There also seems to be a lack of impossible puzzles used to learn mechanics in the adaptation, which kinda sucks.
When learning how TA works in the book, you need to go between the first few puzzles to fully understand what it does. In fact, when I played it, I distinctly remember thinking it was called AT instead until I realised that TA makes more sense. In this adaptation, however, all you need to do is go to 3-2 and try TA on random tiles until you realise what it does.

[@notwithouttext]

if i had been drinking water i would have spat it out when toki pona was one of the languages

[@cyberneticsquid]

I was not expecting a toki pona appearance

[@alphaofficial6466]

same

[@notwithouttext]

for the tokiponists:
uta mi li jo e telo la ona li kama weka tan uta mi tan ni, mi kama sona e ni, musi LOK ilo li jo e ken pi toki pona

[@JamesTDG]

It would be neat to see the rest of the game when it releases

[@maker0824]

11:37 I like how you saw “LEE K” and the first thing you thought of was “leek spin” lol
(Assuming I heard you right)

[@IcelyPuzzles]

yeah hahaha

[@JustAnotherCommenter]

We need more hand content! (totally not sus)

[@alphaofficial6466]

holy crap i didn't expect toki pona in the wild like this O.o and only in the first 15 seconds

[@cyberneticsquid]

ay, fellow tokiponist!

[@alphaofficial6466]

@@cyberneticsquid ayyy!

[@notwithouttext]

a, toki!

[@janKepi]

toki a!

[@notwithouttext]

@@janKepi suli seme la sina ken toki pona?

[@wondrus_slime3167]

Very cool concept!

[@NotQuartz]

This game is awesome in several ways, but could be better if there was a way to spell Chess Battle Advanced

[@nyuh]

whoaa it looks so prettyy
also ive never seen a puzzle game with this concept before
so coooolll

[@dikephobia]

Omg they made a digital version

[@kekevids134]

toki pona!!!!!!!!!!

[@galvinn]

toki pona a!!

[@cyberneticsquid]

toki pona li pona mute!

[@chao3948]

icely knowing what toki pona is is simultaneously really weird and not surprising at all

[@sparklinglate9214]

it only take 1:30 min for me to love this game concept already

[@bluehairedboy2010-iw4es]

This is a really cool idea

[@keyofamajor]

Since TA is the first keyword you learn totally on your own, the book doesn't point it out by name. and so it doesn't prescribe whether it's TA or AT, and in principle it could be either lmao

[@IcelyPuzzles]

yes, the game even lets you do "AT" and "KOL" and "KALT" :p

[@jasonalex5816]

​@@IcelyPuzzlesalso eb and olol

[@Snow4Leopards]

Haven't seen the paper version, but this seems like a pretty neat puzzle.

[@jasonalex5816]

I found a keyword on accident because i saw 'lol', made it but gone a little far and i got 'lolo' which is a keyword.
Edit: on 1-6 if you go down from the top L going down 4 spaces

[@I_Was_Named_This_Way...]

Lingo level 2 is out btw

[@IcelyPuzzles]

yeah I playtested/even designed some puzzles and area themes for it :) it's really great, I just don't have all that much time to do these edited videos

[@espicelmecanicodecombustio1632]

oh my god hand reveal no fucking way

[@IcelyPuzzles]

sus

[@persolokpersolokovic6431]

But it isn't? (also, sus)

[@notwithouttext]

he already did a hand reveal before i think
also one of my videos is called hand reveal

[@mathematicskid]

@@notwithouttext HAND BATTLE advaNCED

[@deytd1507]

I am still sad you gave up on that alephant playthrough

[@IcelyPuzzles]

i did end up figuring the 2nd world out on my own but the conversation levels have been tough for me - I do have the rest of the 3rd world completed/recorded, but I'm not sure if I will continue it o_o

[@denischen8196]

Lok and Alephant have really unusual design choices.
Why do the Lok look like floating mannequin heads and why do they all ram headfirst into the tiles to color them black. How relevant are the keywords and their meaning in the Slovenian language? Does the meaning of Tlak have anything to do with two?

[@persolokpersolokovic6431]

Can of worms when, Aliensrock got further than you already

[@IcelyPuzzles]

waiting until the game fully releases. also it seems like aliensrock is picking a different 3rd world to play that I ended up doing (since there's a choice of which area) hahaha

[@neutralflowerland]

icely both hand wow

[@IcelyPuzzles]

sus

[@05degrees]

Wow

[@rishikracha8213]

[@zilvarro5766]

A BEESOMER GAKOLMER ANARD VITTALAKDEORST!

[@user-tl4bg3ci3g]

OMG TOKI PONO IS USEFUL FOR ONCE!!1!!

[@radwanalassali6842]

i am second!!

[@keyofamajor]

tlak

[@gabenugget114]

3rd

[@profiley2763]

24th

[@xaigamer3129]

802nd

[@MichaelDarrow-tr1mn]

52th

[@xaigamer3129]

@@MichaelDarrow-tr1mn i meant in views