The Meaning Extractor

This game has you allocate 100 units of something into 6 different boxes, then makes a poem based on it.

It's a small game (written for the Neo Twiny Jam, which requires 500 words or less). But it just doesn't make much sense; after making a poem, which is you extracting sense from the universe, it 'extracts sense from you' and gives you a number.

Nothing really changes from this.

Well, I wanted to 'extract some meaning' from this, so I downloaded the zip file and looked through it.

Under the hood, it's doing some fun information theory type stuff. Really convoluted things like taking the average of all your past choices and looking at 2-log of the ratios of the differences of you etc. etc. etc. to represent the information the universe gets from your thing.

None of this comes across in the game. Complexity that players never see is the exact some as simple code that the player never sees. The experience is everything!

Allocate your brain space to some themes, so the universe can hear a poem. Rinse and repeat to find all possible poem combination (and get the highest score? - I got 23…)
I didn’t really vibe with it personally but the mechanic behind it seems interesting.