Morse, strategy game teach you real morse code to win a war has come a long way since we first wrote about it in 2015. What started out as a free flash game (and a makeshift telegraph key made from a clothes hanger) now has proper 3D graphics and possibly a custom controller setup Most impressive I’ve ever seen. When I played the demo at EGX 2021 last month, not only did creator AlexVSCoding build an entire telegraph machine for the occasion, but he also managed to create a pair of headphones from the 1930s to really heat up. The idea became wartime telegraph operator.
Obviously, you don’t need a pair of 90-year-old headphones to play Morse. ONE modern headphones will also do well. Technically, you also don’t need a telegraph, as there is an on-screen button interface that you can click with your mouse. But let me tell you, hitting those morse-code buttons in the game isn’t as cool as hitting commands on a proper dedicated machine, and I wish there was a way Morse could bring it to everyone. that experience when it finally comes out in full.
You can see the custom controller in action in the EGX compilation video above. In it, participants of the convention used telegraphs to execute morse-code commands to launch tactical artillery attacks on a grid-based battlefield. On the vertical axis of the map you have a column of numbers, while on the horizontal axis you have a randomly generated word. You will need to tap on the correct morse code for the correct numbers and letters to move the grid to the appropriate square as enemy tanks, ships and planes approach from the east. Once the enemy unit is in your sights, just tap the other big button (or the red button on the screen) to shoot.
However, not all tasks are the same. Some only cover a single square, while others will hit three in a row (horizontally or vertically), or a block of four. You can tell in advance which cannons are about to appear, as they stack up in a column on the right hand side of the screen, so the strategic element of the game is to move your cannon system to take advantage. your maximum number of available cannons.
It can be a bit stressful. Once you’ve decided on the square you want to aim for, look at the morse code map to the left and emphasize the two commands, your enemies may have moved further forward, causing another hastily look past. between the cipher table and the battlefield. However, for me, I find it to be the right kind of pressure. In some levels that I played at EGX, enemies moved slowly, but not too carefully. It was a good pace to get to grips with the morse code, though by no means there wasn’t a bit of fumbling and reordering when I was done. The battlefields are all completely flat, making it easy to see where my attacks will land, but the trailer suggests there will be more complicated conflicts later that will add hills and combat Dig into the mixture.
Still, even playing a small part of what’s to come, Morse has established itself as a novel and gripping real-time strategy game and I’m looking forward to seeing the battle scenarios. How its more complex affects the rhythm of its morse code commands. However, what I’m most excited about is actually being taught some proper morse code. I love it when a game manages to distinguish between “fun thing you do in your spare time” and “secret education”, and Morse seems like it will do it sporadically. Indeed, my hope is that these combinations of numbers and letters will become almost second nature over time, allowing me to type things much faster and rely less and less on the all-important encodings that I stuck very tightly in the demo.
That’s also why I’d love it to come with its own little telegraph button. Not the whole orchestral setup like I saw at EGX, remember. That would be crazy and extremely expensive. But cor, which I’m not going to give away for a small USB plug-in peripheral that I can use with one hand while my mouse is active… That would be rad. It’s very unlikely, but educational tools are important, damn it, and I just know I would absorb this information so much better if I had a proper thing on my desk while playing it. . I’m sure the full keyboard and mouse controls would be fine, but I can dream, can’t I?
Morse doesn’t have a final release date yet, but you can play the demo like I did (sans telegraph) for free on AlexVSCoding’s Itch Page right away.
