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Podcast: Infinite Cities
Episode: Chants of Sennaar (2023): What's UpPeople?
Description: Have you ever played the tutorial of a game and gone, "damn, this is gonna slap?" Chants of Sennaar pulls off a magic trick right from the jump, not only inviting the player to manually type in what they think a symbol might mean in a language they cannot understand, but also providing a generous mechanic for the player to "lock in" the correct definition to help with future puzzles. It's a mechanic Feather deliberately avoided participating in, and, she might have been right? Â in this episode: language is fascinating, will takes on languages, stupid f...