Puzzling Places - Beta (Major Update!)

Agreed. I loaded the game wirelessly through Sidequest App Lab, but am not sure if I can get future puzzles the same way. I don't have a PC any longer.

thanks for pointing that out! We'll look into that and see if there is anything on our end we can do to ensure it works with & without wire!

The most confusing part is you state that SideQuest works, well you're supposed to be able to install things wirelessly now through SideQuest, but that doesn't work properly for a lot of things (at least for me), so you still need to use the link cable, or manually move the files. If you specify that, confusion solved.

Hey there, make sure you're downloading the attachments with BETA in their name. The directory they get installed to Quest > Android > obb > com.RealitiesIO.puzzlingPlacesBeta. If you're using SideQuest, you can have the puzzles install directly from Patreon as described in this video tutorial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0jJ4OJtSa0&feature=emb_title Next week, we will be updating all the install instructions, as they became out of date with the big update last week. Sorry for any confusion, but all the puzzles on Patreon do work and are downloadable via SideQuest

What directory are you guys placing the downloaded zip files in? Do you need to unzip them? This is a huge hassle, wasted a bit of my time. I have only gotten new puzzles to work while connected through the link cable, and some aren't installing at all.

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Hi Charles, we're in the midst of updating our Install Instructions, but the process is essentially the same as it was before but with a different app: - go to the Puzzling Places - Beta app on SideQuest - click on the Patreon button - Choose a puzzle you'd like to play, and click on the attachment with the "BETA" in its name (we will delete the non Beta attachment shortly). - There should be a pop up dialogue that comes up in SideQuest asking for you to accept it. Once you do, the download + install happens automatically. Feel free to send us a DM if it still doesn't work. Happy to help you troubleshoot!

I cannot figure out how to install the older puzzles into the new beta app. I've installed the new beta via sidequestvr. It works fine. I cannot figure out how to install puzzles like the Straus Monument or the Locomotive below. Can someone list the steps?

Hey Petey, not 100% sure if this works on Mac, but on Windows you can click on the Patreon link in the description and it will just load the Patreon page instead of opening the small window. Then you can download all puzzles without the window closing again and again (check out Azads how to video: https://youtu.be/b0jJ4OJtSa0?t=118 ) You could also just download them directly from the website and move them all onto the Quest at once (see Method 2 here: https://www.realities.io/puzzling-places-instructions )

PeteyPak

A question to realities.io or anyone else on SideQuest and Mac: Can you download puzzles easily, or is it really finicky for you too? My workflow is appalling, I'm hoping there's a better way. I'm on a Mac, to get the puzzles I open SideQuest, press the Patreon button, I get a frustratingly small non-resizeable window, whose contents reload from scratch every time, I then have to scroll, wait, scroll, wait, down a very long page to manually find the next puzzle (where each post is over a screen's height of varying-format text, and the images sometimes take a while to appear, so it's very easy to miss a post). Then I click on the zip file and the window closes, and I have to start again for the next one. If the download jams (rare but happens), or the upload to the headset fails (because it goes to sleep after a while), I can be hunting for the next one already, and then I need to check my errors and go back in, this time hunting by zip file name, to retry them. Downloading just a handful of puzzles can take over an hour of effort and frustration. I'm very open to suggestions! Hopefully I'm doing something wrong!

if you already have the puzzles installed you can just move them all from one folder to the other, detailed instructions are here: https://www.realities.io/puzzling-places-backups

Sorry for the confusion! With the update you can now use the Beta to play the the Patreon puzzles, so the Puzzling Places - Patreon app isn't necessary anymore and will be taken offline soon. Hope that helps!

PeteyPak

Any chance of getting to download the puzzles in groups (or even the whole lot at once) instead of having to go through them one at a time?

I am so confused. Do I now re-install the beta from Applabs (which I deleted in order to install the Patreon version ), and delete the Patreon version from my Q2 headset ?

Oh my gosh, this is so exciting! Thank you so much for all of your hard work and for making this beautiful experience!

Thanks for all your hard work!