Nuclear Logistics Bureau's Typing Challenge

Congratulations! You have found the interface to the NLB/9 mainframe. It looks like this:

You configure the five switches and press SEND to type one character at a time. Try not to destroy the world.

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HEADS UP: You will need to download the character map PDF in order to play! Refer to it to know how to type.

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PLAY AT HOME WITH KEYBOARD CONTROLS

You can play this game with a normal keyboard, but it's more challenging. Instead of pressing SEND, you just type five characters, one representing each switch (don't hit enter or anything else, just type five characters). Picture it like this:

 1    2    3    4    5
[!]  [!]  [!]  [!]  [!]
 q    w    e    r    t

Use the character map, but for every "up" switch you type a number, 12345, and for every "down" switch you type a letter, qwert. "A" is "qwert", "B" is "qwer5", "shift" is "12345".

You will only be typing characters from the set of [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, q, w, e, r, t]. All other input is not recognized.

if you mess up in the middle of your sequence, like you accidentally type "124" instead of "123", type any other valid characters until you've got a string of length 5. If that 5-character string isn't valid, the game just throws it away and then you can start typing again for real.

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Key art by Zach Turcich

Made for PIGSquad's Build Your Own Game Jam 2026! Modifiers used:

• "Wait, what?" (3)
• Typing Game (10)
• Use an alt controller (12)
• Make your key art in a different style than the game (6)
• Work with a new person on your jam team (10)
• Work on your game at the overnight jam site (10)
• Graphics are entirely ASCII art (14)
• Intentionally unreliable instructions and/or narrator (10)
• Call your mom (4)

For a grand total of: 79 points! The upper end of mild.

Secret menu add-ons:

* Extra large

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NLB/9 interface is powered by Arduino Leonardo. Here's the sketch.