Ludum Dare #59compo

suno pi tomo tawa (Traffic Light)

by jan-sate

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.62

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.62

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.81

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.40

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.06

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.89

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.46

Rules:
* This is a multitask game. There are two traffic lights.
* Key mapping: "456" is mapped to "QWE" on this emulator. "123" is still "123".
* Wait for green light and press the button corresponds to the image shown promptly and you get a score.
* You lose if you pressed the wrong key or being too slow. Press "F" ("V" on the HTML5 emulator) to restart
* The glyph below is "pakala". It means that you lose the game:

nasin musi:
* sitelen "456" li nena "QWE" lon ilo sona sina
* o awen e suno laso. ni la sitelen li kama lon. o pilin e nena pi sitelen pona.
* sina pilin e nena ike la sina pakala. sina awen mute la sina kin li pakala. o pakala ala!
* sina pakala la o pilin e nena "F" (ni li nena "V" lon ilo sona sina)

Comments19

Chomby20 Apr 2026, 13:07

I like the game. I could get through two lights before missing the timing. The symbols are distinct enough to tell apart.

LDJam user 17904020 Apr 2026, 13:25

This was fun! I like the esoteric nature of the glyphs, and you used the theme really well. The basic visuals in the small window really grabbed me. Some of the key-mapping could've been clearer but I eventually figured it out. It took me several tries to get going with it but I finally hit my stride and got what I think is a decent score, haha. Thanks!

BarnabeWild20 Apr 2026, 14:49

Great brain teaser, pretty hard! simple and fun challenge!

freamdev20 Apr 2026, 16:20

Really interesting and educational game, educational in the sense of I learned a lot about myself, for example I cannot due two things at the same time or remember things. Nice entry!

hotaloca21 Apr 2026, 03:33

Very nice mini-game! I liked the visual and glyphs a lot too, and this game proved surprisingly difficult for me :) Anyway, great take on theme and super work!

Rafa Fiedo21 Apr 2026, 19:14

wow, very nice mini-game :D
i had very hard first minutes to understand this game and control mapping.
It would be easier if 4,5,6 would be like... 4 5 6 on keyboard haha
some audio effects would be great very helpful for it!
so after understand what it's going on that was a very nice game!

PurpledArtFrog21 Apr 2026, 19:58

Not too obvious to what you're suppose to do.. but I like the look of the game and the simplicity of the visuals :thumbsup_tone1:

Left you a rating :smile:

nullval21 Apr 2026, 20:23

Very challenging and difficult. The sprites/glyphs are very recognizable so that's nice, but the time limit seems very short (or maybe I'm just panicking easily) and the fact that there is no "lives" but immediate death when you misclick.

It's a nice minimalistic game though, great job.

Meta-link22 Apr 2026, 13:23

Cool game ! It's a bit hard to get into since the key mapping is a bit odd, and it's really fast even at the start, but when you got into it it's really fun. The visuals are cool too.

Good job :slight_smile:

mahalis23 Apr 2026, 00:21

Wow this is hard! Even once I got used to the key mapping, it’s a lot to parse at once. It’s a fun challenge though. Feels like a retro game gadget from the 90s. Well done!

henk23 Apr 2026, 17:13

Not bad. I don't know much about CHIP-8 but I assume it's a very constrained system to program for.

Jesús González23 Apr 2026, 19:56

Wow this is very technically impressive. Now I'll have to check out more about CHIP-8.

VenomousMouse24 Apr 2026, 08:24

Good idea, i like the minimalism.

jan Sateauthor24 Apr 2026, 14:24

@jesus-gonzalez Thanks! If you think that it's impressive, I'm actually making a physical CHIP-8 game console. That's why I'm making this game in the first place. This game will be included in the game console! :D

zbrogdom27 Apr 2026, 20:43

Well, this is hard

Wendel Scardua28 Apr 2026, 23:18

Funny how, even if I don't know the language itself, I recognize it as toki pona 😅. I assume the glyphs are random toki pona words as well? I tried playing this but I'm not coordinated enough to score more than 1 point, apparently.

Out of curiosity I tried to search if there was a CHIP-8 emulator for the NES and someone already did it (as the person who keeps making NES games for LD, the thought of making such emulator crossed my mind 😅)

Jimbly29 Apr 2026, 00:24

My high score - also 23! Took a while to get into the flow of it, and then I felt like I was doing okay =). Nicely challenging, nice simple visuals to fit the simplicity of the game, I like it. I wish the keys I had to press were actually the ones displayed in the game though =).

automatonvx5 May 2026, 00:27

Neat idea, but too hard for me :/

LDJam user 3524906 May 2026, 05:38

Pretty fun little mini-game! The graphics are simple, but kind of perfect for what it is. My high score: