Airwaves (Nil Knight)

Use the cheatsheet if you just want to read the story. This game gets really difficult.

*21/09/2020: Added cheat sheet and bug fixes

Airwaves is a 2D pixel art text-based puzzle game/interactive novella about a fictional family in fictional China working as a telegraph & communications operator for over a century. 

The player will take control over the operator to decipher Morse code, encryptions & calligraphy, and experience 4 short stories across by playing through 3 generations of telegraph operators in the same family across important periods of time in China’s modern & future history. 

The difficulty of the game will evolve across generations from basic Morse messages to deciphering complex ciphers & code conversions. 

Through deciphering & logging codes and messages, the mystery and the tragedy of the family, and indeed the community, will be slowly revealed to the player. 

The art of the game are all pixel drawings based on time-specific items.

Special thanks to Alex Rickett, Eddo Stern, Tyler Stefanich, Chloe Zhang, Elsie Wang, Fongkei Mo, and the UCLA Gamelab.