After watching too many Youtube videos about cursed Factorio mods, I had the horrible idea to make my own.

Another mod called 'Word Smith' already does something similar, but there are a few key differences between our mods. For one, their mod adds letter decompilation as an option, where in my mod it's the only way to craft anything. Secondly, we have very different ways of converting letters and numbers into alternate letters and numbers. Our goals are very different, but they had a lot of great ideas that I took inspiration from. Kudos to name.txt for coming up with the base concept first ^w^

The mod itself is relatively straight-forward. There are a few cases where the auto-generated name from the prototype isn't the proper localised name and requires an override, and some tweaks have to be done to make progression work, but overall, it's actually not too difficult to implement.

Overall, I'm happy with how it turned out. It's goofy, but it's perfect for that.