Word Puzzles In An Alien Language - LOK

[@raindrinker_dev]

Woah Tyler, so happy to see you play our game! Absolutely love your editor's bits :D We hope you enjoy the weirdness of the end-game hehe. Happy holidays from the dev team, Ferran & Blaž. Thanks for trying out LOK Digital!

[@dariuszjozef7654]

Hiii

[@CatValentineOfficial]

you have weird videos

[@raindrinker_dev]

@CatValentineOfficial They're super old, lol. There's a proper studio account for Icedrop Games, but its almost empty and this is my personal YT account. Having checked your YT videos, glass houses much tho :D

[@Belzemat]

Gorgeous game. Makes my brain churn and yearn.

[@bunkerbrock7716]

@@raindrinker_dev might be my new favorite dev lmao

[@HalfBoyHalfGod]

I love it when a game makes you speak complete gibberish

[@Starryeyyed67]

Yuh

[@svkona]

the baba is you appeal

[@sauceofficial2233]

isnt the language toki pona?

[@CyanWatercress4]

nice try alienslok we already know you’re an alien

[@jaxpianoteacher]

i see what you did there...

[@littlefloss._.]

I can just imagine his neighbours going " why the hell is he talking about "lok" and "tlak" or something?"

[@deathlygamingreal]

@@littlefloss._. he’s just French

[@CCABPSacsach]

“He keeps talking about trying to be a tah or something”

[@upsidewalks]

Probably was indoctrinated by Vietnamese Marxists or something

[@Kamirasu]

LOK'TAR OGAR

[@susamogus8331]

Kok

[@ACatwithNoHat]

The editor marking with red sqaures the one you're refering to. After monthis I can adfirm that this channel has the absolute best editor.

[@stefandries0]

Theres actually multiple editors (3, if I remember correctly), you can check in the description to see which one edited which video!

[@chrisyotas5854]

@@stefandries0 I dont what you are talking about. Cleary, there is just 'the editor'. No more, no less.

[@theeditor3620]

@@chrisyotas5854 hey that's my name!

[@andrewjo6718]

OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'RE PLAYING THIS (but it makes complete sense). I haven't played Lok myself but the guy who originally designed the physical book for Lok made a puzzle book called Abdec that I am obsessed with. Unfortunately it doesn't adapt to a video game as well but maybe some day.

[@thonk7611]

i have to say, the game is cool, the puzzle book itself is a whole other experience. figuring out what the words and mechanics did without any input of what is right or wrong other than just "this level is possible, this level is not possible" is just so special

[@stickyickyrickypdx]

@@thonk7611 it truly is special! The Ah-HA! moments are really well laid out.

[@OlliWilkman]

[one-shotting almost every puzzle] "I feel like I need more practice with this still."

[@lred1383]

afaik he just edits out the thinking

[@mainstreetmafia6605]

based inquisitive mind

[@total_dk6517]

They have a book version that's a little bit harder because you don't have the QOL indicators for what the words do. All I can say is that this game gets a bit wild later. That said, I am a bigger fan of ABDEC (by the same creator). I'm sure Tyler already has it on his list, but for those of you who have not heard about it, try it out. Its free to download the PDF of the first 15 puzzles!

[@roasted_fighting_chicken1003]

Baba is Lok

[@fumokaze]

ta is win tlak is not win baba is not ta lok is move be is defeat

[@CatValentineOfficial]

@@fumokaze LOLO GRIVA OLKO

[@secretmeister]

OMG the i wanna lockpick reference, the editors get more and more advanced

[@coolestgedown1versionrobbe647]

@@secretmeister chess battle advanced

[@reneepark7385]

Props to the editor for a Brian David Gilbert reference

[@Eereepa]

@@reneepark7385could u give a timestamp plz.

[@rojandyyyyyyyyy]

random ponytail inspection

[@BananaWasTaken]

With how many different references they make, I’m starting to suspect that Tyler’s editors have collectively watched every piece of media there is to watch

[@FernTheRobot]

@@rojandyyyyyyyyy I didn't know we were due for a ponytail inspection

[@rojandyyyyyyyyy]

@FernTheRobot (agressive british accent) well if you knew it, it wouldn't be random, would it??

[@2admie]

As a russian speaker I deeply thank the editor for the Kia joke.

[@CB-lh4ph]

Your best commentary is always on the games that make you think, like this one and polybridge, rather than games that make you react, like vampire survivors. I'd love to see you make more episodes of this game

[@3thanguy7]

super awesome for you to finally play this. one of my favorite puzzle games ever made

[@jackdog06]

Bro is Lok-d in.

[@orionn5290]

sir we have Lok-ated the pun comment

[@jianalexander1359]

Get this man Lok-d up

[@speedycheetah29]

Pretty funny, but I feel like your comment t-la(c)ks something.

[@WiffleWaffIe]

So happy to get Lok get some attention! It's a great game!!!

[@Wither-xj5cp]

potentially one of the funniest aliensrock vids ngl

[@mrharvest]

This could make a fun esolang. The order in which you need to select the words determines subject / verb / object. The spatial position of the word on the grid could also encode information

[@zackbuildit88]

Do you mean conlang? Esolang is short for esoteric programming language, conlang is short for constructed language (as opposed to natural informal languages like English)

[@GenTheFurredArtist]

Honestly, this becoming a series would be so awesome. Love this game to bits.

[@Cycy_the_Crystalball]

FINALLY, ive been waiting for you to play this game!!! people barely play this so it'd love if you turned this into a series!

[@theominouspigeon]

hmmmmm, i feel like i recognize this game

[@APerson-14]

same

[@secretmeister]

maybe from a certain cold-water logics?

[@reneepark7385]

@@secretmeisterfrigid conundrums

[@manIhatethisuser]

@@secretmeister Perhaps a frozen-liquidly problems ?

[@Jonskipvp]

@@reneepark7385 cool problems

[@amaryllis0]

I think this game is better in its original non-video form (it was originally designed as a paper booklet) where you don't get any premature confirmation of how mechanics work. You're not supposed to instantly understand what the words like TA or BE do via mechanical confirmation, it's meant to be like The Witness where you might make wrong assumptions and that creates the puzzle when you're confronted with a puzzle that those assumptions can't solve, go back and erase and redo etc.

[@Sopsy_Hallow]

i have not experianced the original form but i cant fathom how it would work if it doesnt tell you the rules of the game. at that point its a bunch of boxes with letters in them, no?

[@mloxard]

The rule discovery was so great

[@stickyickyrickypdx]

@@Sopsy_Hallow Trust the process. Otherwise, yeah I can imagine outside looking in seeing someone play this game in public. Like there you go...filling out squares with no rhyme or reason.

[@stickyickyrickypdx]

Can't wait to see how you handle the late game puzzles! This was a delightfilul journey playing the PnP version from itch.

[@lopesdoria]

Well, too bad for you. This definitely looks like the type of game he won't want to play on video ever again. It's probably because it isn't too visually interesting so it won't hold the viewer's attention despite how good the puzzles themselves are. Even with just this video he skipped most non-mandatory puzzles just to get the video over with faster. Then again, I could be entirely wrong. So I'm crossing my fingers that what you want does come true. :-)

[@upsidewalks]

​@@lopesdoriaWell, he discontinued doing video for Opus Magnum whose visuals are somewhat more 'watchable' than for this game. So I bet you're right. On another hand, he made a huge series out of Understand which is the same 2D grid where you connect tiles so I can't be absolutely sure.

[@lopesdoria]

@@upsidewalks Yes, I think it's not a matter of the graphics being good or bad. It's more about newcoming viewers being able to understand what is going on at a glance. (It's for the same reason that he reexplains the machanics of the games at the beginning of every episode) I both LOK and Opus Magnum, the puzzles are intimidating and confusing if you are not used to the game's visual language. I think in Understand's case, the rules changed in every chapter, meaning that it's intentional for everyone to be lost at the start of each section, both the viewers and Tyler himself are supposed to be figuring out the mechanics as the episode goes.

[@upsidewalks]

@lopesdoria Good points! I agree with you

[@stickyickyrickypdx]

Surely the digital version is a bit easier as you can brute force a few more tries over re-applying some water to your wet erase marker 😅 That trial and error will lead to some video editing magic for sure, but Tyler is entertaining as he talks out other puzzles. I don't see how this wouldn't be engaging enough to upload a few more. I honestly skipped a few of the challenging levels before coming back. What felt like cheating later was proved the correct implementation of a ruleset in a later puzzle.

[@reneepark7385]

Didn’t you already make a video about this on your alt channel, Icely Puzzles?

[@GoldenSandslash15]

I had no idea a digital version of this book existed. But I still prefer the pen+paper version, personally.

[@zackbuildit88]

YESSSSS IM SO HYPED TO SEE YOU SOLVE THESE PUZZLES!!! WOOOOOOO

[@AETREK]

Yo Tyler, I've just finished playing through Talos Principal 2 and now am half way through Into the abyss. When I watched you're playthrough after I had finished, I know you wanted harder puzzles and the dlc they came out with is really good! (Maybe not Orpheus Ascending so much :/) I thought most of the puzzles so far have made you think in a new way or in harder variations that have been very satisfying to solve for me. I loved watching you play Talos principal 2 after I was done so much that I'd love to see you do the DLC as well! (Well, maybe after a week or two when I'm finally done with these last few into the abyss puzzles)

[@robertdunagan5807]

1:11 when you get a dumb comment and don't have a good response

[@Hookens]

okko lool

[@KingsleyJiang-p9j]

Found a solution for 5-7: Be the blank into a K Lok using the new K, locking the K on the 3rd fork Ta the A’s Using the rightmost L, create an Lok going backwards into the second fork, locking the X on the bottom of the second fork And finally, using the L in the first fork, create a Lok going downwards and right to the last K, lock the X 13:54

[@florisv57]

i found a solution with it being x. use the x for TA on the A's use the bottom left L to make LOK with the K of the right fork and lock the x that was made. use the bottom right L to make LOK and lock the x under the second fork use the last letters for the last LOK and block the bottom left x

[@KingsleyJiang-p9j]

@@florisv57The bottom right L can’t make a Lok

[@KingsleyJiang-p9j]

Wait it can nevermind it works

[@JamesTDG]

Fun fact for the viewers: This puzzle game first started out as a puzzle game you would solve physically inside a book!

[@funky_pepe]

12:34 based editor

[@Kyaithe_alien]

HEY IT'S MY LANGUAGE‼️ - K

[@Zephyr314]

I played a demo for this at the develop conference in the summer, very cool to see it released

[@secretmeister]

Amazing game! I watched Icely play it, (you two on the same brainwave again), but he hasnt done the bonus end levels yet, i look forward to your reactions to eveything?

[@geno1073]

Tlak means pressure btw. so words arent completely made up tehnically

[@mloxard]

Slovenian - an alien language

[@happyvirus6590]

11:40 🎶 Mem, we don't know what we did 🎶

[@ibdoomed]

I've been waiting for you to play this for a very long time.

[@jackalscry8173]

I’m halfway through and I can’t watch anymore until I play myself. This game is too good to not check out.

[@hello_hi1]

Where he left off allows him to continue well

[@gotyouchip1179]

I was waiting the entire video for a hawk tuah joke and the editor obliged at 13:06

[@superexplosion5985]

He's officially LOK'D in

[@PhạmHiếu-g2h]

all the key word: LOK: let you blackout 1 space TLAK: let you blackout 2 space TA: let you black out ALL letter that are the same (or ALL blank space) BE: let you ADD a letter to a BLANK space

[@StarbornCthulhu]

Ow my head. I could probably do these puzzles but I much more enjoy Alien figure them out. His brain is big brain

[@AdeptEvan]

Dang Tyler this was a great vid. Fun game, liked you playing it.

[@AlkalineOrSomething]

I read the title as "Worst puzzles in the English language" and I was terrified

[@Jus10Ed]

Has Tyler's house been invaded by gnomes?

[@FernTheRobot]

Oh god I'm so so curious for this one and it's so hard to resist, but this game has been on my list and I mustn't spoil anything for myself. I'm sitting this one out through gritted teeth until I finish this game.

[@CountFab]

Taking a shot each lok

[@noctyria1003]

This video must seem like a feverdream to blind people

[@almightyhydra]

"Russians when their Sorento breaks down" made me laugh so hard

[@tinna917]

I love the black goop creatures. If only there was a world full of them.

[@koopatroopa051]

If you liked this one you should definitely try “Lost in Translation!”

[@NestorCustodio]

I loved Monster's Expedition. Had no idea they'd released another game!

[@eliasthememelord]

I loved A Monster’s Expedition, I already know this is going to be great

[@hanifarroisimukhlis5989]

Please make this a series 🙏

[@shadehardy7170]

Love the Christmas vibe in the back Tyler ❤

[@shakewell42]

God I love watching him tlak

[@IcelyPuzzles]

tlakwell

[@Lunawithcheese]

Finally! Aliensrock plays lok!

[@Juustoaivo55]

When will a puzzle game use a rock language though?

[@Manelneedsaname]

By the thumbnail I thought it was going to be a crosswords but you have to learn how the alien language works to solve it (sounds like a fire idea)

[@banan.6674]

Tlak in czech actually means pressure.

[@Memestealer18]

4:40 All of the time, avathy's a tragedy and form is a crime

[@Good_at_night]

What is avathy?

[@Good_at_night]

Empathy?

[@Memestealer18]

@@Good_at_night Speech to text, don't know what it actually is

[@xuspirahopte5549]

It's kinda unfortunate that the game has to use the english keyboard to type solutions eventually. Sure, it opens up some interesting puzzle options, but it does pull away from the "learning an alien language" feeling that you have to use this specific human alphabet. I couldn't, for instance, just drop this game to some foreign child and have them learn to complete all the puzzles without prior knowledge of keyboard configurations.

[@raindrinker_dev]

I'm one of the devs! Very interesting comment, hehe. The game does read your actual text input, not what key you pressed. The game is doing surprisingly well in Japan, and I'm being very careful that keyboard configurations and layout don't spoil the experience! Obviously, in the paper version you could have replaced L, O, and K with alien glyphs, as you're drawing the BE'd tiles in with a pencil, but it's really useful mentally that the words are pronounceable, and for stuff like mobile (and I'm gonna add it as a settings option in PC too, in case someone outright doesn't have a latin alphabet keyboard) it pops up a small in-game keyboard.

[@toadonwheels]

I've never played it, but there is absolutely some kind of meta puzzle in the hub world lol

[@cameios]

13:06 I was just going to make that joke but the editor got it before me lol

[@ultra-x-848]

lok.

[@PurplePikminSupremacy]

These puzzles can get tricky. It’s time to Lok in.

[@Oxawott]

Reminding Tyler he hasn't updated the Demos+One-offs Playlist in a while :)

[@denycast]

I have the puzzlelbook by the same name. And alsolbought the game. Need to play it soon. Than l will come back to this video soon🙂

[@buildermonkey2229]

That one that stumped you was because you were hyper focused on TA when TLAK could be spelled with an L instead of X

[@NotserpHrrib]

This game is awesome

[@daniellaizekemoe1967]

Icely should collab

[@doommaker4000]

I'm gonna send clips from this video to random people with no context

[@K-RED-d6h]

Imagine hearing this without context

[@ingvarsuigin609]

Fun game, great editing

[@gooost7y]

13:50

[@crazychicken0378]

> same developers as a monsters expedition. Sold

[@ShockRox]

Alienslok

[@churrotree2293]

Holy good game

[@therealelement75]

i feel like I've watched this like a very long time ago, like you had a lok video before

[@peppolo92]

5:52 me, named TA, going in a disco be like

[@logangodbehere3066]

Somehow i played this before alian

[@4U70_DeadAuto]

Currently at 11:12 in the vid, keyword function idea Swaps 2 adjacent tiles

[@anter176]

Video overall feeling a little too fast paced compared to the gameplay. Do like seeing more puzzle content though!

[@theoneandonlymastergunner]

We need tyler to play doodle god or something like that😊

[@TheRealOPLLIE]

we want ney, need more potion craft!!!

[@Thatonewoodenfloor]

more potion craft please!

[@Joel-qz9sj]

I really liked this game, but trying to follow everything makes my head hurt D:

[@snekrot850]

I didnt know we just need to ta once to get rid of X. that solves a lot of problems so easily!

[@zaion8917]

more, MOREEE

[@xcel1818]

Finally a puzzle game!

[@oleromhacking7643]

lok be like: lok the o to tlak the e and make a ta and ta the space and win the level

[@SomeoneBlue2]

First thought that comes to mind is "What happens if you try to spell KOK?"

[@redwood513]

Alien, check out a puzzle game called The Bridge…I think you would like it

[@badgergaucho99]

Lok tuah

[@GarrettHoward22]

Day 1528 of telling Tyler that he never finished his minecraft series and that he should finish it. Made by the monsters expedition giy? This game must be pretty good

[@NStripleseven]

Day 1488 of agreeing

[@georgiwenckovsky9748]

hey tyler will you be playing Spellsided?

[@julianlastname5730]

This kind of melted my brain