Aug 9
Game Spark interviewed Applesinmypants, developer of the sci-fi decoding adventure The Message from Deep Space, released for PC and Mac on June 30. The game has players translate alien messages from a meteor using math and science, with inspiration from the Golden Record. The game does not support Japanese and costs 1,200 yen.
Aug 7
A Denfaminicogamer writer plays The Message from Deep Space, a game about translating signals from an alien meteor that landed on Earth in 1973. The early game is a crash course in octal arithmetic, and the writer fails 4+4 because the answer is 10 in base 8. Teammates offer hints.
Jul 4
The 160th edition of Weekly Steam Square highlights eight new titles on Steam, including puzzle adventure The Message from Deep Space, supermarket organization sim Supermarket Chaos, and the first official Ganbare Goemon collection. The roundup also covers incremental RPG Master Healer Kale with useless party, horror game Feed The Pit, Sokoban-style Cat Squeeze, and narrative horror Beso's Shawarma.