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Minor problem/suggestion for the Rook Museum

I've just entered the Rook Museum for the first time (and it is generally brilliant, I must say), but immediately noticed a problem for me with regard to interacting with it: namely, I almost always play games muted.  There seems currently to only be an option for audio, and while I don't mind too much making an exception so I can listen to it, it would be much better for me to have an option for subtitles as well as/instead of pure audio.  I'm sure there are others for whom it is more than a minor inconvenience also (I for one had broken speakers for some months a while back, so it would have been impossible to play!)

Anyway, as I say it is otherwise great, but this is a tweak that would be most gratefully appreciated.

Posted 16 months ago by Cindy Electronium Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I had the same thought when I visited the Rook Museum. In addition to those who cannot (for whatever reason) have sound on while playing, there are also the hearing impaired to consider. Most (if not all) of the rest of Glitch is playable without sound and it would be more inclusive if the whole game could be made this way.  Granted, clicking through a succession of text bubbles would be very tedious. Would a scrolling text banner be possible?
    Posted 16 months ago by greyn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm not hearing impaired or anything like that, but I absorb information better in text form. I really feel like I missed some content and wished I could re-enter the museum so I could list to everything again more closely.
    Posted 16 months ago by Fokian Fool Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I agree
    Posted 16 months ago by Sweetie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1  I have not yet been to the museum (didn't even know about it to be honest), but I ALWAYS use my computer with the sound muted.  My wife is usually within earshot in our quiet house, and the last thing she wants to hear is the babble from some "silly" game I am playing!
    Posted 16 months ago by Hawkwell Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 
    For some reason, I'm incapable of listening for long periods of time. Granted, the Museum isn't a long period of time, but after the initial excitement of "OMG! I LUVZ ROOK MUSEUM!" dies down, I find it turning into "blah, blah, blah". Don't ask me why. Also, in addition of incapable of listening to more than 5 or so sentences (even thought I could easily jump through 500 pages if it's written text), I have a tendency to mishear words. When I hear words which don't make sense, I find myself pondering for the next 3 or so minutes what it actually was, then I miss a bunch of information.
    Posted 16 months ago by KitkatCat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 for subtitles, please
    Posted 16 months ago by Zany Serendipity Subscriber! | Permalink
  • awww really? I was looking forwards to the rook museum; lack of subtitles will make it verrrry difficult.

    +lots
    Posted 16 months ago by Katchen Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I also agree with this and it came up in chat during the game.  I believe Araldia has provided transcripts for this.  Not sure where they are posted right now, but will add when I find out:-)

    However, it would also be good for them to be added in game;-)
    Posted 16 months ago by ♥joby♥ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1
    I'm like KKC on this one. Right down to the pondering of misheard words.  :)
    Posted 16 months ago by CoffeeSnob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Here we go....  transcripts courtesy of the Devs, via Araldia;-)

    1 – Painting.Title Card:The World Divides As Lem is Overcome.Attributed to Heepbo Gonx. Era unknown.Image: Huddling Glitches move away from the distant flock of Rooks

    VOICE: “Back in the early ages of Ur, when small islands formed spontaneously from the primordial chaos, only to be rendered unrecognizable moments later by the constant ebb and flow of imagination, the ancient Glitchian tribes suffered under constant threats to their very survival. There was the instability of the environment, the paucity of piggies—not to mention going to sleep every night without knowing what shapes or substances their meagre huts might be when they awoke—but by far the most dangerous and terrifying of these was the Rook.”

    “THE ROOK!, enemy of imagination, visited its wrath upon whatever the Giants’ minds created. It was the very manifestation of fear, doubt and uncertainty and it pecked and clawed relentlessly at the periphery of the Giants’ domain, black winter to the Giants’ spring of creativity.

    “It was, if I can say so myself, most awful.”

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    2 – Painting.
    Title Card: Hiram Chipoltepac Helps Defend in the Battle of Balliure Heath
    Attributed to Heepbo Gonx. Era unknown.

    VOICE: “After noticing the capability of a particularly strong, focused and concentrated burst of imagination to temporarily stun The Rook, ascetics and yogis of the Meadow Tribes set to work to develop a more reliable method of harnessing this defensive action. Employing the recent technological breakthrough of spun-crystal focusing orbs they learned to draw the small imaginations of individual Glitches together and blast the rook into stillness, at least temporarily.”

    VOICE: “They gave this discipline the name of ‘Martial Imagination’ and the image preserved in this display shows an elder Glitch in early times leading imaginators to defend against a stream of Rook attacks.”


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    3 - Item - Orb

    “While the lustre of this ancient focusing orb has faded with the passing of generations, in ages long past, its flawless surface of spun crystal presumably acted as a nexus for the imaginations of our Glitchian ancestors, and a potent weapon against the Rook.

    “The power of imagination increases geometrically with each contributor. Three minds are twice as clever as two, four twice as clever as three, but such power is not easily contained even by the most resilient of materials. As more and more thoughts and dreams are poured upon the orb, it begins to shift colours from a calming blue, to an emerald green, to a brilliant orange. A dangerous, unstable equilibrium is reached when the crystal glows a fiery red. Beyond this point, further contradictory notions racing around the surface of the orb create the dramatic risk of a paradox, which can shatter the crystal, and embolden the Rook.”


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    4 - Painting.

    Title Card:Esquibeth of Inari Primes a Shrine
    Xacau Feera Blin. Year 2.

    VOICE: “Generations struggled to find a way to fight back against the Rook and end their destruction of creativity. No progress was made until the extraordinarily Pious Esquibeth of Inari discovered that her will alone could turn a normal shrine to a weapon, harnessing the direct conduit to the minds of the Giants to return fire instead of favor. ”


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    5 – Item.

    Title Card: Ancient Shrine

    “Discovered half-buried in a rock face at Ekorran Roughs, it would be easy to pass the coarse stonework of this ancient shrine by as simply another natural feature. But while the crafts of ancient Glitchian tribespeople may have been rudimentary, they still excelled in their piety and devotion to the Giants.This shrine would have played an integral role in the everyday ceremonies of village life. The holofilm which follows demonstrates a pious primitive priming the shrine for an attack.”


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    6 – Drawing/Painting.

    Title Card:Secret Rook Plans
    Author unknown.
    VOICE: “As legends tell it, these battle plans were recovered from an abandoned nest after a series of courageous attacks repulsed The Rook entirely from the Isle of Uralia. Though its true provenance has never been proven to the satisfaction of all skeptics, most now believe it to be a genuine artifact — indeed, the only such artifact ever to fall into Glitchian hands — and the only example of Rookish script ever seen.”


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    Posted 16 months ago by ♥joby♥ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Let me add my vote to the scrolling subtitles!  I too have difficulty absorbing detailed information in the spoken form.  I read much faster than the spoken word, and I often lose track when a something in my environment distracts me momentarily.
    Posted 16 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink