Alphabet (video game)

Alphabet (stylized as A͈L͈P͈H͈A͈B͈E͈T͈) is a 2013 experimental video game that was developed by Keita Takahashi and Adam Saltsman.

[5][6] In December 2013, Japanese magazine Dengeki offered skins for the PlayStation Vita themed around Alphabet and Tenya Wanya – another of Takahashi's games.

[10] The game was presented at the installation with a custom controller table with large circular buttons for each letter.

[11] Wired called the game's premise "deceptively straightforward", stating that the Fantastic Arcade version's gameplay became "frantic" as the amount of characters they had to control increased and describing the game as "overwhelming insanity".

While they described it as a "frantic typing mess" and remarked that they became "annoyed in harder levels," they concluded: "Alphabet has a great deal of style and charm, and is unique enough that it's hard to dissuade anyone from trying it at least once.