Symbols that can’t be understood have always captivated human imagination, especially when they tell a story. Some games lean into this captivation by asking players to decipher alien imagination, ...

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do ...

The game "Infinifactory" which assembles a factory as it is ordered by the alien to produce a variety of products is written in machines and buildings appearing in the game aliens. The alien character ...