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LCD, Please

by abra0 on 8/8/23, 5:30 PM with 97 comments

  • by capitainenemo on 8/8/23, 6:40 PM

    [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 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..

  • by JeremyBarbosa on 8/8/23, 7:06 PM

    If 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://store.steampowered.com/app/239030/Papers_Please/

  • by nom on 8/8/23, 7:18 PM

    I'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.

  • by turtleyacht on 8/8/23, 5:32 PM

    > Celebrating a decade of Papers, Please!

    Additional content at

    https://papersplea.se/#year10

  • by noree on 8/8/23, 7:09 PM

    Lucas Pope's other game, Return of the Obra Dinn, is also excellent

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_the_Obra_Dinn

  • by mattl on 8/8/23, 5:55 PM

    I'd love to see this on the Play Date console. https://play.date

  • by packetlost on 8/8/23, 6:21 PM

    This is awesome, I'd consider buying one of these if it was real

  • by bobsmooth on 8/8/23, 6:24 PM

    This is harder than the original.

  • by crickey on 8/8/23, 6:16 PM

    God im old

  • by thrillgore on 8/8/23, 11:28 PM

    From 8 bits to watch game in one release.

    On another note i've been playing the mobile release of Papers Please and its great.