felix (grayscale) 🐺Blue Prince is: "What if Myst were a rogue-lite?" And you can pet the dog if you find him.
... tfw you reach the Ark of the Grail with zero moves left, so instead of opening it you go back to your camp to sleep while the entire dungeon gets reset
... tfw you reach the Dog Foretold with zero moves left, so instead of petting him you go back to your camp to sleep, and the dog returns to limbo until you find a new path to him
Reaching room 46 in Blue Prince was really satisfying. But I feel like I'm still less than half done. There are a lot of mysteries left, and a lot of story I don't understand yet.
And there's a trophy for "Reach room 46 on day 1". I don't know how that's possible. Maybe it's just a persistence achievement: keep retrying until the random draws are favorable? I feel like I'm still missing something important; I don't see how there's more than a 1% chance of success...
ok, I've found a sanctum key in Blue Prince, and now I'm very confused... I might need to play another hundred or so in-game days to understand this...
one glitch now that I've switched from windows to linux: videos aren't playing. known problem. unfortunately means I missed a fortune teller video. well, the earlier fortune teller videos were more tease than helpful. maybe there will be a way to review them all later
now that I've carelessly lost all my screenshots again, wondering if I should continue with my current profile or start a new one (again). there are some subtle permanent choices that I might do better
currently have 34 allowance, 2 sanctum. I think most of my permanent choices are ok, a little better than my first profile
still confused about "reach 46 on day one"; that still seems impossible
... probably just continue current profile until I understand how to do that
ok 80 hours into Blue Prince, I'm having trouble remembering stuff, and it takes a while to scan through hundreds of screenshots, so I guess I'll make an obsidian notebook for it all. *gets distracted by git config options*
ok organizing my Blue Prince screenshots gave me about 40 open questions. setting out to answer one of them added half a dozen more questions. hm
I now have two todo lists for Blue Prince:
- "things I know how to do" has ~10 items
- "things I don't know how to do" has ~50 items
... jira doesn't seem like the right task tracking tool here. I need a conspiracy-wall version of trello
~50 days after reaching room 46, I've just now found *another* key in Blue Prince that confuses me. ... this all still seems solvable without using resources outside the game, but it's tempting to take a few shortcuts like kidnapping the dev for clues
×××××@gray17 busy busy felix 
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neocturne@gray17 It would be great if you could hide these behind a "Blue Prince spoilers" cw
I really don't want to know about any of the things I haven't discovered myself yet
I really don't want to know about any of the things I haven't discovered myself yet
@neocturne sorry! Will do
@gray17 Thanks!
Zicklag@gray17 How are you running it on Linux? I've been trying to figure out if there's a way to or not.
@zicklag in Steam, Settings, Compatibility, turn on "Enable Steam Play for all other titles".
set "Run other titles" to "Proton hotfix", which is the bleeding-edge version supported by Valve. (you can also set the version individually in a game's properties)
For some games, you might want to use GE-Proton instead, which includes fixes not in Valve's version: in particular, it has better Media Foundation video support. To get GE-Proton, I used the app ProtonUp-Qt
@gray17 Awesome, thanks!!
One more question. Do you know if you can launch the game fine offline?
The device I want to put it on usually doesn't have internet access, and I've not used Steam for anything else yet, so not exactly sure if I'll be able to make it work or not.
@zicklag yeah, seems to work fine. I turned off my internet, started Steam, and played through a day of Blue Prince without trouble.
note, you probably do need GE-proton for the game's cinematics to work. the cinematics aren't strictly necessary, but they do help, and have a lovely mood. you can test that cinematics work by viewing the game's credits from its settings menu.
(Steam is also easy to refund if you try it and it doesn't work)