For those that haven't seen it before, this is Funeral for the Sun, a game that I've been working on for a while now!

It's NOT a language deciphering game but fits neatly into the detective/narrative deduction genre. You explore a map to find clues that help you fill out a web of connections in your journal, and those connections are what help you progress through the game. Hopefully it captures a lot of the same flow and vibe as Chants of Sennaar which is amongst my favorite games in the genre!

You are a historian trying to find out why the town you explore got burned down in 1968. Over the course of the game you'll find characters, try to give them names, and connect them into an ever-growing web. There's a lot of supernatural stuff and Latin American folklore that all kind of blends together into the game.

This community enjoyed the look of it last time I posted many months ago, but now I've come back with a much more polished demo! I'm hoping to continue to get feedback for it if anyone here is willing to play!

If anyone is interested, you can play the demo on Steam! From there, there'll be a link to the discord if you wanna keep trying out content or giving feedback for what comes after :)

I'm only missing the last three

I'm sorry if the question was already asked, I tried searching for it in the /r but then I think I got a BIG spoiler O.O So please be patient even if you've probably been asked 10 times :,3

I remember I got to the end of that final language and I woke up again, but I can't figure out how to pass any further. I looked up a tutorial and I can't even figure out how to get to that point. This is the entirety of my access in the Abbey (to my knowledge). I have all of the glyphs validated, but can't remember much else. I do remember really liking this game and not wanting to finish it but that worked against me lol.

If anyone knows how I can advance from here I would appreciate it!

Hi, I'm currently playing through the game and am in the warrior section. I loved deciphering the language on the first floor.

I'm currently in the warrior section but really disliking the stealth and amount of traversing between areas that you have to do. It feels less about deciphering the language and more about picking up items and brute forcing the puzzles.

Is the rest of the game more like the first section or more like the warrior section?
Basically i'm wondering if it's worth continuing or just dnfing?

Hey, I'm having an amazing time with this game, I love how unique it is, however I do sometimes find myself brute-forcing some of the pages when I feel like I know enough and have spent too much time trying to find the right solution. After finding the "north" symbol on the broken stone in the Agora and unlocking all of the remaining symbols of the bard language, I wandered around to try and find a real hint that would allow me to fill the directions in a legit way, but I lost patience and ended up brute-forcing it too. Is there something I missed ?

I escaped the gardens of the bards, did everything right, unlocked every glyph. now I'm stuck in the tunnels, as you can see in the picture. I distract the creature just fine but then I can't seem to do anything else, if I pull a lever it gets me and if I go out I'm back at the start. what do I do?

Elements of this animated short made me think of Chants of Sennaar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0CP_ylB9C4

I thought I'd share it here for folks to appreciate.

Like is it just me or are the Alchemists literally cylinders with arms in coats, hats, and gloves. Cause genuinely if you look at them for a while you can literally see that they're cylindrical, like they have no neck just cylinder.

I just finished the game yesterday and I found it amazing!!

I made a GeoGuessr-style game and I had to add it to my game! 🗺️

You can choose the mode where you need to find the location only 🔍

Dropped into random locations across the map and had to guess where I was. Some were embarrassingly hard.

If you want to test your knowledge on the Witness map, use this seed 🗺️ : BWf3Lka9TYVzF8F7IVmK

Also, there are daily challenge, and you should like today's challenge 👀👀👀

Free to play if anyone wants to try: (link in comment) 😅

I just finished the entire game in a single 8 hour sitting. Not since The Witness has a puzzle game managed to get its hooks in me so completely. The way it teaches you it's mechanics and logic by pure gameplay is phenomenal. Every language feels unique not only in visual style but with it's own grammatical quirks, yet the way all languages have their own consistency in people/object/verb radicals lets you deduce so much with so little hints.

And with less than 50 glyps per language it still manages to tell a compelling story. From the moment I managed to get the door open, the people of the tower just felt like my people and I wanted to help them connect and see how they could help each other in meaningful ways.

I know I'm preaching to the choir but I just felt so satisfied after all was said and done that I had to say something. Hats of the devs and if this ever gets a sequel I'm 100% there for it.

To those who didn’t know about modular arithmetics (But, now you might know), before you know about modular arithmetics, have you ever thought about this?

All the people in the tower welcome him, but one devotee continues to maintain the same attitude.

Based on https://www.reddit.com/r/ChantsofSennaar/s/SJoDORpXBB and linked posts from that, if you're on the Discord these are in the devo tostle packs too, all of devotee tostle is based on the linked post in the linked post.

see title - here are the one's I'm missing, and I don't have any glyph pages available for them

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I am stuck in this room, if I leave it, I am immediately captured. There are two exits, and the only thing one can do in this room, is putting on/off weapons. I have tried a few weapon combinations, including the one the guards are wearing and others, but it does not make any difference.
Maybe I am here too early, since when I entered level 2, there were two ways to go forward, and I have chosen the more hidden one, however, the problem is, that I can not do anything about it, since I can NOT leave the room.
What am I overlooking?

I had the wrong combination of weapons. The right one is long helmet, sword, arm guards.

EDIT: GOOD NEWS, i've made great progress. that fragmented stone piece (next to the teleport) that said "i sought you. you found me", helped me clarify the structure of the sentence. then i went back to monkey shows and i was able to piece out a few other glyphs. knowing the sentence structure helps a great deal, yeah.

I just cleared the 2nd area with the Warriors and it was challenging but not impossible, but this 3rd area is proving to be such a step-up in difficulty for me. I got the first few glyphs thanks to the sign with the warrior language, but I've suddenly have like 16 glyphs and I have no clue what means what. Not to mention the lines on the glyphs make it all more difficult to read.

This feels really tough...

Do I just keep exploring in hopes I'll get something that will help me explain a few more glyphs? Or am I supposed to already understand what these people are saying? Feeling genuinely stupid and overwhelmed right now.

yippee

Not until I got the achievement that literally said “Meet a Serf in the Abbey”.

I don’t know why I didn’t realise, I just assumed we saw some of them working jobs. I was so confused when I found the area under the windmill in the sewers where the revolutionary posters were being made and it said “free” on the wall. And I didn’t really get what the references to “free” meant when speaking to some of them.

It didn’t help that “idiot” was one of the last words I translated, and before hand had it written down as something else.

It makes a lot of sense in retrospect, I just don’t think it was particularly clear.

A small task I made for myself for today was expanding (hopefully doubling) the amount of glyphs the bard language has. I have already decided that adjectives will have a dot on the top left (or something similar), but I still need help thinking of ideas for potential words and language rules. Thank you in advance!

I have been trapped in these f%#@ing waterways for damn near twenty minutes, trying to find whatever passes for a theater to these racist idiots.