Wishing you all a marvelous new year full of fun, good books, and fond memories. Please enjoy this FREE update, featuring 16 brand new ciphers to decode!
Happy solving!
P.S. If you haven't already, check out the sequel Poems & Codes for even more ciphers from the Project Gutenberg library!
We're so thrilled to announce that Poems & Codes is now available for purchase! Enjoy over 400 of the ciphers you love, this time with excerpts from classic poetry!
fixed a bug where using UNDO a lot would result in a crash
Introducing POEMS & CODES - a game of poetic ciphers
We're super excited to announce the sequel to Prose & Codes! If you loved Prose & Codes, get ready for a brand new library of ciphers to decode -- coming later this year!
Decode a vast and varied collection of curated poetry, where each poem is encrypted using one of the world's oldest codes: the substitution cipher
Use your knowledge of the English language to decrypt over 400 interconnected excerpts, with each cipher inspiring the next to come
Like what you decoded? Read the entire poem in-game or download each poet's anthology online for free, direct links included!
Share the joy of poetry--10% of every sale is donated to Project Gutenberg, an online library of over 60,000 free ebooks
Play at your own pace with four difficulty settings to choose from
Relax with a soothing, contemplative soundtrack
Choose between night or sunlight mode with optional enlarged cipher text
We'll be sharing a demo with you this summer, so stay tuned and wishlist now!
8 New Ciphers + Patch
Hello everyone! Today's small patch contains:
8 new ciphers! (one per genre)
fixed the cipher count text wrap issue on the profiles screen
updated Adventure quote #4
Happy solving!
Trading Cards Now Available + 16 New Ciphers!
We're thrilled to announce that Prose & Codes now offers community items!
Collect trading cards featuring famous authors from each genre, craft book badges (plus the exclusive Gutenberg foil badge!), and decorate your profile with awesome illustrations from the game!
As an added bonus, we've included 16 brand new ciphers for you to puzzle over.
Huge thanks to everyone for your reviews, feedback, and continued interest in the game. Trading cards are a big milestone for us, and we couldn't have done it without you! :)
Happy solving!
2 extra Great Thinkers ciphers plus bug fixes!
Hello! Two little updates for you today:
2 more ciphers for the Great Thinkers genre, for those of you who needed 52 ;)
Fixed a bug where a solved letter would be erased/not appear, making the puzzle unsolvable
Big thanks to everyone for checking out the new update and for reporting any issues you found!
Happy solving!
FREE Great Thinkers Update!
We're so excited to share a brand new genre full of 50 new ciphers: GREAT THINKERS!
Decode quotes from some of history's most influential thinkers, ranging all the way from ancient wisdom to modern philosophy. This is our first non-fiction category, and we hope you enjoy!
In addition to the new ciphers, we've added a few requested features to make your solving experience even smoother. On the cipher screen, you'll now find an UNDO button (you can also use CTRL+Z), and we've added the ability to right click on a letter to erase it. There are also minor fixes for typography spacing and typos.
Happy solving!
Patch Notes + 14 new ciphers!
Hello! In today's update, we have the following:
14 new ciphers! Note: if you've already finished the game, you will see the endgame screen one more time after completing these new ciphers. With future updates, the endgame screen will not trigger again.
Typos
Tanglewood Tales synopsis
The Mystery of the Yellow Room synopsis
Children's cipher #20
title of The Wendigo
Features
added option to disable cursive handwriting font
added borderless window mode
created profile data backup folder in your local save data directory; these can be used to restore older save data if you ever need it (please see the discussion forums for instructions on how to find your save data directory)
Bugs
fixed endgame issue where players couldn't reveal the book title before being taken away to the endgame screen
Still in the works/Things we're considering
undo button
some sort of Steam cloud integration or way to make manually backing up save data easier
Patch Notes & Updates!
Hello! Thank you so much to everyone who gave feedback over the past two weeks.
User-Friendly Updates
added a little arrow above the active letter box to make keyboard navigation easier
letter boxes will now stay active when changing pages on multi-page ciphers
changed "VIGNETTE" label to "FLICKER FX" on Settings screen for clarity
Bug Fixes
tearing noise will no longer play on click when the "Reveal Book Title & Author" ribbon is not present
fixed a crash that occurred when decreasing cipher text size on multi-page ciphers
changed the title of "Tales of Terror and Mystery" in the Mystery genre to "The Lost Special" to avoid duplicate book titles
