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Ludum Dare 37 — December 9th-11th, 2016 — Theme: One Room

Well, Mike ran in to problems getting ldjam.com working properly with about 12 hours left in the Compo, so this is the backup plan.

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Alien Rooms! What Do They Know? Do They Know Things? Let's Find Out!

by Marjie62 - Jam Entry

Your lab has found a mysterious alien box that takes in alien text and returns a response in the same language. Reverse engineer the box to understand the alien language: design a factory to manipulate symbols on a stone tablet to imitate the alien "Chinese Room".

A Chinese Room is a thought experiment in which a person who does not speak Chinese sits inside a room with a book of instructions on how to manipulate Chinese symbols. The person receives Chinese texts through a window, follows the instructions in their book, and returns a response text in Chinese. The question is, does the room speak Chinese?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room