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LCD, Please
- turtleyacht 3y ago> Celebrating a decade of Papers, Please! Additional content at https://papersplea.se/#year10 https://papersplea.se/#year10
- mattl 3y agoI'd love to see this on the Play Date console. https://play.date https://play.date
- rjh29 3y agoHe's working on a different game for PlayDate, so maybe it will? https://www.escapistmagazine.com/mars-after-midnight-gameplay-details-lucas-pope-obra-dinn/ https://www.escapistmagazine.com/mars-after-midnight-gamepla...
- mattl 3y agoThat would be excellent.
- solardev 3y agoWait, this thing is STILL in pre-order? When is it actually supposed to ship? I first heard about it when the 1st gen Switch came out, and then silence for years. I assumed it'd come and gone, but it hasn't even actually shipped yet...? Are people still expecting it to, or is it considered vaporware by this point?
- evan_ 3y agoIt's shipped, the preorder is for the next batch. They sell them in batches.
- mattl 3y agoI've had mine for over a year.
- Yhippa 3y agoWhat do you think of it so far?
- wombat-man 3y agoGot mine recently. Nearly an entire year after ordering. It's alright.
- jonny_eh 3y agoIt sucks. Have mine for about a year, barely touch it.
- germinalphrase 3y agoIt’s a novelty. If it’s just sitting in a drawer, would you want to pass it along? Could get a testing chain going… kick it along to the next person after two weeks.
- solardev 3y agoWhat didn't you like about it?
- jonny_eh 3y agoHard to see the screen. Crank isn't nearly as fun as it sounds. Games are simple, which is good, but then often cost $10, which is a lot for what you get.
- scrame 3y agoI saw a guy with one on the train a couple months back. I think a friend got one, too.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoI recently got an email asking me to confirm my address before... today or so, so the next batch is on its way. I ordered one for my girlfriend, she really digs it, I hope it'll be here before christmas... but not too far before because else I'll have to give it to her sooner :p.
- tenacious_tuna 3y agoMine arrived a couple weeks ago--two years after I initially ordered it. Their ordering transparency really does leave a lot to be desired.
- throwawaydog5 3y agohttps://play.date/games/recommendation-dog/ https://play.date/games/recommendation-dog/
- crickey 3y agoGod im old
- donatj 3y agoMy first thought was literally 0 "Papers, Please" came out ten years ago!?
- CobrastanJorji 3y agoOh no, I thought we were old because we recognized LCD games, not because we recognized "Papers, Please." Now I feel so much older!
- quickthrower2 3y agoNothing to make you feel as old as a younger person who feels old!
- Hackbraten 3y agoSaid Jorji, of all people.
- bobsmooth 3y agoThis is harder than the original.
- daguava 3y ago[dead]
- packetlost 3y agoThis is awesome, I'd consider buying one of these if it was real
- capitainenemo 3y ago[EDIT] If anyone is wondering why it is rendering poorly in Firefox with Resist Fingerprinting enabled, that's because this page seems to serve the game from a random CDN on a different host. https://v6p9d9t4.ssl.hwcdn.net/html/8469963/index.html https://v6p9d9t4.ssl.hwcdn.net/html/8469963/index.html in my case. Because the canvas is attempting to read pixels, which can be used for fingerprinting, Firefox is blocking this. But because it is being done in an iframe, there is no prompt until you open the iframe in a new tab at which point you can whitelist it, and it will work ok in the original iframe too. Unfortunately reloading it in the original may give you a totally different host to whitelist, repeating the problem. So, probably best to just play outside the iframe. In order to do that I had to inspect the page and copy the url since I can't right click on the game iframe to choose open in new tab, probably because it is capturing that. Oh, you can also allow canvas fingerprinting, but that seems like a bad idea - maybe in a separate firefox profile just for sites like this one..
- schemescape 3y agoiPad/iPhone also don’t allow localStorage to persist in this scenario (iframe with unrelated domain). Even worse, there’s no way to detect the failure because it’s to resist fingerprinting. Adtech and mitigations are ruining the internet…
- solardev 3y agoIt feels like there's one of these "doesn't work on FF" threads any time there's a post about a halfway interesting web app. Intentional or not, they really contribute (in my mind at least) to the overall perception that Firefox is truly dead. Nobody even tests for it anymore, or worse, accepts that it's fine to be broken on FF.
- donatj 3y agoI think part of the reason nobody tests for it anymore is just because web standards have largely gotten so good. I don't often test in FireFox these days myself largely in part because it just hasn't been a problem in years. I'm old enough to remember the days when every change I made I had to roll through multiple versions of IE all the way back to 6, and different things would be broken in different versions.
- JeremyBarbosa 3y agoIf anyone has been putting off playing Papers, Please, it is an amazing game and currently on sale for its anniversary for only $1.99: https://www.gog.com/en/game/papers_please https://www.gog.com/en/game/papers_please https://store.steampowered.com/app/239030/Papers_Please/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/239030/Papers_Please/
- epiccoleman 3y agoFurther, Lucas Pope recently released the game for mobile OSes, and did an awesome job porting it over. There's a great blog post at his devblog where he talks about the challenges of taking a game originally developed for mouse/keyboard (mostly mouse) and making it work in the mobile form factor. Edit: this one: https://dukope.com/devlogs/papers-please/mobile/ https://dukope.com/devlogs/papers-please/mobile/
- hbn 3y agoI already own it on Steam but I pulled the trigger on the iOS version, if not only to support Lucas Pope. I still haven't played it, but I played through Revenge of the Obra Dinn a few years ago and read a lot of his blog posts from the development of the game, and I think the guy's an absolute genius.
- jonny_eh 3y ago"Return of the Obra Dinn": https://obradinn.com/ https://obradinn.com/
- hbn 3y agoOops, yes "Return"
- mock-possum 3y agoObra Dinn is a fucking masterwork. Love this guy.
- sph 3y agoThe description of how he solved the dithering problem in Obra Dinn is mind blowing, and made me appreciate software as a craft, where you have a problem you chisel at for days on end. Software as art and personal expression, rather than software as a deadline and meetings with your manager.
- noree 3y agoLucas Pope's other game, Return of the Obra Dinn, is also excellent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_the_Obra_Dinn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_the_Obra_Dinn
- butz 3y agoStill 5 years to go.
- BaculumMeumEst 3y agofor some reason i just couldn’t get into it. i love the aesthetic, but i hated the pacing; the game's frequent unskippable walking sequences and menu transitions between puzzle solving felt like a slog. papers please is one of my favorite games of all time, though, and i enjoyed other first person puzzlers like the witness and portal.
- skeaker 3y agoI had a similar experience. It's unfortunate since I hear it get praised constantly for being a masterpiece and I am a big fan of puzzle games, but it just would not click for me. I think it's also to do with the nature of the puzzle being kind of abstract (and at times almost subjective since I think multiple answers can potentially be correct for some causes of death). The game tries to handle this with the evidence book that you can refer to, but it's a massive thing that just feels clunky to use due to the sheer size of it.
- nom 3y agoI've heard that custom LCDs are relatively cheap to order in low volumes. This one has quite a lot of segments, but feels doable. If we can find some premade game-and-watch style cases with buttons and battery compartment.. this could be made into a product or a hobby kit, without too much expertise or upfront cash. Hmmm.
- jhbruhn 3y agoCan we get this to teenage engineering?
- 113 3y agoGet your orders in early.
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- thrillgore 3y agoFrom 8 bits to watch game in one release. On another note i've been playing the mobile release of Papers Please and its great.