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I bought The Witness (the PC version) a couple of years ago, even though it's not a game that I'm inclined to try to play (and I might not even be able to play

I bought The Witness (the PC version) a couple of years ago, even though it's not a game that I'm inclined to try to play (and I might not even be able to play it). I bought it partly because I was inordinately curious about superficial packaging details like whether or to what extent dynamic linking would be used, how assets would be bundled, and whether they would be obfuscated so they couldn't be viewed or played outside the game. But I also bought it because I knew it had some interesting audio and video recordings, like a recording of Brian Moriarty's lecture "The Secret of Psalm 46". Anyway, I found the audio of that Feynman clip you referenced, and it was indeed playable outside the game, in an ordinary audio player. Now I'm curious about this movie theatre puzzle and the significance of the Feynman clip in the context of the game.

jasonwatkinspdx 5y ago
It's not a game for everyone, but I'd suggest giving it a reasonably serious try if you're curious. It's by far my favorite puzzle game, and I generally do not like puzzle games. I played through it with a local retro gaming group over a series of sessions. That made it a lot more relaxed and fun, as we could share the mental load when getting a big fatigued. Most of it we could figure out through simple intuition, persistence, observation, etc, but there is one puzzle at the end that we hand to resort to pen and paper, coming up with a formalism for it. All in all it was a really cool experience.