Stay out of MOIDA MANSION!

November 1, 2024 3:23 PM

Lucas Pope, creator of Papers, Please and Return of the Obra Dinn, has just released Moida Mansion, a new game playable for free on itch.io. Moida Mansion, an ELECTRONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL GAME, throws back to handheld electronic games of yore.
posted by Rinku (13 comments total)

YOU'Ve been MOidA'd!

<groan>
posted by Reverend John at 3:43 PM on November 1 [1 favorite]

So cute. I finished with

174 moves
36 searches
4 moida's
posted by Phssthpok at 3:52 PM on November 1

(Pope's blog post on how he did the dithering for Return of the Obra Dinn is truly an epic.)
posted by kaibutsu at 3:55 PM on November 1 [7 favorites]

Anyone have hints for finding Dot? I'm striking out.
posted by vibratory manner of working at 7:49 PM on November 1

Remember how the manual talks about finding secret latches? That's not the only thing on the wall you might need to mess with.
posted by entity447b at 8:14 PM on November 1 [1 favorite]

Oh how delightful!
posted by rebent at 8:20 PM on November 1

It seems there are some rogue like elements, with the house having a different layout on a new game. I wonder if the clues are different every game too?
posted by rebent at 8:42 PM on November 1

I am completely blown away by how much this game manages to do with a fixed set of LCD segments.

The bit at startup where it turns them all on at once is such a beautiful touch.
posted by automatronic at 2:47 AM on November 2 [2 favorites]

I took a screenshot of all the LCD segments turned on, so I could look at them for more than half a second. It's a very clever layout.
posted by automatronic at 3:44 AM on November 2 [8 favorites]

That's fantastic, automatronic.
posted by Literaryhero at 4:20 AM on November 2

Automatronic, THANK YOU. That is exactly what I was hoping to find. :)
posted by AlSweigart at 10:51 AM on November 2

I am completely blown away by how much this game manages to do with a fixed set of LCD segments.

I feel like this could be a whole genre of digital art for making creative animations.
posted by AlSweigart at 5:40 PM on November 2

This is so generous.
posted by Hermione Dies at 3:11 AM on November 3 [1 favorite]