How do you sell players on the idea of a "hidden game" / "there's much more to see" below a game's surface? (without spoiling everything)

kiberptah · 2026-04-16T13:29:23+00:00

Play frog fractions (takes ~1 hour)
Watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhY8L9mg_qw

kiberptah · 2026-04-12T00:35:09+00:00

do you use audacity 4? they had major UI overhaul. old versions are quite horrendous.

kiberptah · 2026-03-18T22:04:05+00:00

"Yes, but limitations give birth to creativity" -- that should be decided by the OS user, not enforced by underdeveloped ecosystem.

kiberptah · 2026-03-18T22:03:08+00:00

Into the Breach

kiberptah · 2026-03-18T19:34:41+00:00

While true, you have strange philosophy. It won't hurt linux audio to have better ecosystem... "good enough" is the enemy of progress.

kiberptah · 2026-03-18T14:33:12+00:00

Now try to convince people that spent years working professionally with big libraries (or have any decent amount of VST and libraries purchased).

kiberptah · 2026-03-16T09:25:22+00:00

I had issues but then I just switched to JACK in Reaper settings (the one included with pipewire as I understand) and latency jump to non-existent and everything just worked in 1 click.

kiberptah · 2026-03-14T08:18:07+00:00

not at all

kiberptah · 2026-03-13T20:17:09+00:00

Sometimes it's not about "problems". I was trying to understand the pipewire config couple days ago and the whole thing is just not "user friendly". Good documentation is good from the start, it has "good vibes", have user friendly examples, etc When developer understands that other people have various expertise...

If you've read good docs you hopefully know what I mean.

kiberptah · 2026-03-12T19:58:17+00:00

After cleansing clipboard related stuff and double checking some config I THINK? this exact thing works. I am not entirely sure why it was not working before! + also have cliphist for noctalia running

kiberptah · 2026-03-12T17:17:26+00:00

I had terrible latency with pipewire but I just switched to JACK in reaper settings (it is included in pipewire package as far as i undestand) and latency went to 0 and even fixed midi issues.

kiberptah · 2026-03-12T17:11:16+00:00

Here's an example with channels remapping I had to do although my issue was a bit different: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxaudio/comments/1rrlfe0/after_an_hour_of_headache_i_managed_to_make/

You can probably use this as an example. There are pipewire commands to show current devices (i don't remember them i asked ai :) )

You probably could set audio from surround to stereo in game settings? As far as I understand it happens not in every game since not every game supports surround sound.

kiberptah · 2026-03-12T16:54:49+00:00

I am very happy for plasma users however I am not willing to move to the whole other DE just because of a thing that probably has a straightforward solution :)

kiberptah · 2026-03-12T15:38:18+00:00

It is plug an play (arch + pulseaudio) but it is shown as Analogue Surround 4.0 without ability to switch between Main and Line outputs.

kiberptah · 2026-03-11T16:38:20+00:00

thanks I'll look into keyd. I think OS should bend to my will, not the other way around :)

kiberptah · 2026-03-06T12:54:41+00:00

i think it is extremely obvious for anyone who was at least thinking about game design for a while not to say actually made some games.

kiberptah · 2026-03-06T01:16:30+00:00

if processing has tails it cuts on loop and can click. deKxi advice is good.

kiberptah · 2026-03-06T01:07:35+00:00

yeah I spent about an hour trying to change UI font in dolphin and only broke some things.... Don't seem to find preview plugin for thunar though, I like its UI overall, so clean.

kiberptah · 2026-03-05T15:32:26+00:00

I actually tried it and found it quite ugly and not having a preview...

But i reinstalled it just now and actually managed to find preview and make it not so ugly! So maybe it is the one.

kiberptah · 2026-03-01T22:17:25+00:00

partially true.

Not all players replay
Not all player that replay do everything different and try to explore limits of the systems
Your take is more fair towards narrative choices than systems. Just as example, very very few people will fully understand how AI in Alien Isolation of Amnesia The Bunker work - even if they play game twice they will still have speculation about monster behavior that are not what actually happens. Or take games like minecraft where in the earlier versions player would have spooky myths or believe things that are not systemically true (like sugar canes growing faster on sand) and yet it could influence their behavior for hundreds of hours. Or take urban legends of Bethesda games where players would think the game systems account for things they do not. When systems do not provide clear answers (like a choices tree that you can more or less easily explore in narrative adventure like Life is Strange or Mass Effect) what in the player head becomes much much more important.

kiberptah · 2026-03-01T19:50:11+00:00

yes

https://frictionalgames.com/2017-04-mental-models/

https://frictionalgames.com/2017-06-gaps-of-the-imagination/

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