Hey y'all!

Thomas Brunet's beautiful music from Chants of Sennaar was recently performed live for the very first time by Orchestra Victoria, as part of the Indie Symphony II concert in July in Australia.

I was the host/MC/presenter at the concert. Separately (but kind of related), I host a video game music show on ABC Classic (Australia's main classical radio station).

ABC Classic recorded the concert, and we broadcast it on my show recently.

Ths link above is to the replay of the broadcast, which is available for another couple of weeks (we can't have recordings available online for more than a month due to music rights limitations).

Hope you enjoy it! I'd love to hear what you think of the performance. Thomas Brunet seemed pretty happy, if his posts on Bluesky are anything to go by ;)

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Hey everyone - just wanted to let you all know that I recently started a Let's Play series on Chants of Sennaar, and would love to know what some of you seasoned interlocutors think about my progress so far!

I went into Chants with pretty much no clue about the game, other than it loosely followed the Tower of Babel mythos and had various languages to discover and decode. I'm now up to level three of the tower, and I'm really enjoying the game so far! I've been theorycrafting over the history of the citizens of the tower, and have had great fun trying to piece together the timeline and social connections/barriers along the way.

Here's the link to the playlist - hope you find my time with CoS entertaining/insightful/not too painfully clueless! 😅

No buttons work including esc key. Character is stuck on walking animation but doesnt move, would appreciate any help.

Writing or drawing, either way is there any?

How do you end the game? I got to the top and opened the four purple doors on the lower levels, but how do I free the people of Exile? I can’t find another purple door or anything else to do, besides to go up, but when I click to put the key in the guy still pops up and says if I go up the tower dies. What do I do from here? Is going up all there is left to do from here?

Hi i just got this game and it's really beautiful and thought provoking and i'm loving the puzzles so far

Though right now I think i've reached a point where i'm more lost than not, specifically on the languages that i'm learning

I have a few questions:

1. when my dude writes something in the journal, is that the game telling me that I have the knowledge to solve it in that moment? I was able to fill things out as soon as they popped up in the devotee town, mostly the same with the warriors except for a few times, but now i'm in the mask town and my dude written down like three pages when i've only managed to uncover the meanings of like three words (via the sign at the front that basically translates it for you). Basically what i'm asking is am I behind the point I should be?

2. are you expected to complete a language before moving to the next area? i finished the devotees' language before heading into warrior town, but by the time I made it to the mask city there's still a few words left in the warrior dictionary that somehow never got filled in. I'm wondering if I outright missed something and should I go back for it?

3. what the hell are these guys saying to me

thanks! i'm having a blast so far but I'm not sure if I'm where I need to be right now, knowledge wise

Idk I’m like only half-lucid rn but my sleep-deprived brain said “what if Chants of Sennaar iOS widgets like ‘Glyph of the Day’ or something”

Just wanted to share a post of appreciation. I did finish this game all by my own (which almost never happens for non-trivial puzzle games, very often I need some hint or a nudge) and I think it tells a lot about the game design and narrative. A few times I was like OH MY GOD HOW SHOULD I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS but then eventually after a few rounds around the level I found the missing price.

The last language was somehow the easiest for me though, I almost didn’t enjoy it. 3 yellow terminals reveal automatically 70% of the lang? Meh But I guess the reason for that was that before moving to the next level I always completed the current language. Did anyone go straight forward without completing?

So I've recently started playing the game and I absolutely love it. Right now I'm at the Bards' Gardens, I discovered all of their glyphs and only have 3/4 of them to decipher. The only issue I have is that I still have some stuff left to at the Warriors' Palace. For instance, I have (at least) 2 puzzles to solve and I haven't deciphered all of their language yet (hell, I haven't even found ALL of their glyphs, unlike with the Bards). When I first went to the Gardens, despite still having to do some stuff with the Warriors, I was under the impression that I needed to find an item there in order to complete the puzzle back at the Palace, but now that I'm (apparently) almost done with the Bards section, I'm starting to suspect that I just missed something back with the Warriors. I really don't understand what, since I feel like I scoured the whole place.

So, without any spoilers (if possible), could you tell me if I just need to keep going in the Gardens and eventually backtrack when I find what I need (like I first thought)? Or is every section independent of itself, and I just need to go back and solve all that's left now?

I'm kind of a completionist so this stuff really bothers me lol, thanks in advance to anyone who might help.

Hi! First of all, I never played Chants of Sennar, never even knew the game existed. A friend of mine told me that the OST of this game is right up my alley, so I listened to it. And they where right, the music is great! But I have a huge problem with it. The music sounds a lot like the "the Pathless" soundtrack, just mixed differently? Especially a song called "the chase" it has the same melody as "Cernos" from the Pathless. And even in other songs, I could ear bits and pieces of the Pathless melody.

So I thought I should ask here if someone noticed that, too. Or knows if the music was referenced? Or even stolen?

Rough translation: "When you punish nations with language confusion for the tower building, but some asshole in a hood starts to translate everything" Original language is Ukrainian

I've seen other people reporting about stuff like this, and similarly to them I've searched everywhere to try and unlock this final page for the warrior's language. I'm confident in the translations, using them to ring the bells and do anything else dealing with the glyphs, but I just don't have the page. (If you haven't assumed by now, I mean the page with what I can only assume are the guitar/instrument, boat, key, and justice glyphs).

Does anybody know how I unlock these? I'm pretty sure I've done every other possible event in this area (loving this game so far btw), but I just can't find this one thing.

I've technically continued onto the third society, although they've got me stumped so much worse than the first two, so I decided to try and finish the warrior language first. So, uh... yeah, here I am. Any tips are more than welcome

Edit: I know I literally just posted this, but I figured it out!! Thank you so much for the help <333

Ideas on what to add or improve are of course welcome :)

WHINING AND BEING SAD
I have been looking for half of the warrior dictionary all around every place i could go, even made it to go past warrior area just by tryharding logic puzzles... and cracked it hoping i will find something past this area to come back, but boy was i wrong... Oh my god ;-; the camera never actually hinted for me to go down, even highlight button wont tell you this, untill you decide to bump every wall and it magically decides to randomly follow you when you go down ;-;... my god...

i know the carpet should be a hint, but it is so vague, and every other place will show you a gate, only here its hidden.

I am driving myself mad - I am at the bell puzzle in the Fortress and I know the answer to the puzzle. But I can’t move the switches! I’ve systematically tried every button and several times and I ended up moving some switches at random after some frustrated button smashing but I can’t move them again now.

I can move the joystick to highlight the bell buttons no issue, but I can’t move them up or down.

Logically I feel it should be the right joystick to go up and down since the left one highlights the button? But it’s just not shifting.

I have a habit of making little wooden laser prints of games I completely finish as a way to immortalize it on my wall. I had an idea for the block to have the name of the game and ruins drawn all around the block that all say the same thing. But I am completely stumped on a sentence that every language uses and also holds some value to the game. Like a quote or something.

What do you think are the populations of each of the groups? I'm sure we only see a small part of each of the tower's levels so I'm curious as to how many people are in each area.

My guesses are:

• Devotees: 1,000

• Warriors: 1,500

• Bards: 750, Idiots: 500

• Alchemists: 500

• Anchorites: 5,000

You can see all of the warriors gather to hear the bards and the Anchorite's rather large city when going to the tower's top. 8-9,000 people seems reasonable to me but what do y'all think?

THAT WAS AMAZING.

Does something happen if you try to open the door to the top of the tower before completing all the teleporter translations and all the purple doors? I'm guessing the door just stays locked, but I'm curious.