What's Wrong With My Keyboard?

Introduction

What's Wrong With My Keyboard? is a platformer puzzle game. In this experience, characters typed on your keyboard fail to show up on the monitor in real time. The input signals are lost and blocked on the circuit board. You must control the protagonist to relay and connect signals in the correct order, converting them into digital output for the monitor to display properly.

How to Play

Solve word puzzles based on prompts from the NPC and type the correct answer to unlock levels.Control your character to collect input signals and emit them toward letter receivers.Press the matching keys on your keyboard to proceed with signal transmission once letter receivers are activated.Figure out the correct signal route and activate all receivers following the letter order of the target word.Guide signals through every letter in sequence and deliver them to the final output port.
*Tip: All puzzle text is displayed in uppercase due to font limitations.Only lowercase keyboard input will be detected correctly.Typing in uppercase may trigger bugs and cause submission failure.

Controls

←→ : Move
Space : Jump
↑↓←→ : Adjust signal emission direction
Ctrl : Emit Signal
Enter : Toggle puzzle window
Hold R : Restart Round
Backspace : Undo last signal step

Creation Concept

This game is inspired by the clunky PC experience of the millennium era. Limited memory and unstable connections often caused severe typing lag and delays. There were times when you typed out entire sentences, yet the monitor stayed blank with only a lonely blinking cursor. After minutes of unresponsiveness, all your input would suddenly flood the screen at once. 😹The bulky old monitors, bulky computer towers and stiff keyboard controls crafted a one-of-a-kind early internet experience unique to that generation.
We drew inspiration from a well-known internet meme: modern convenience and automation are not truly intelligent, but manually operated by hidden workers behind the scenes. We reimagined in-computer signal transmission with this concept. When your keyboard fails to respond, it is because digital signals on the circuit board are disconnected. Tiny workers inside the circuitry must collect your input, relay signals in strict letter order, and deliver them to the output port. This cleverly explains the classic old PC quirk — delayed text that loads all at once after a long wait.😏

Art Design

Centered on vintage millennium-era computers and their unstable signal transmission, the game adopts a Tape Punk & Tape Futurism art style. From puzzle platforms to interface UI design, paired with retro pixel art visuals, this cohesive aesthetic fully shapes the game’s distinct nostalgic and surreal visual identity.

Last

Due to time constraints, our team is still gaining Game Jam development experience.Under tight deadlines, thorough bug testing and font adjustment were limited.Thank you for playing our game.We will keep optimizing features and fixing known bugs in future updates.