ABOUT THIS GAME
Please Knock on My Door is a story-driven game which gives you control over a person suffering from depression and social anxiety. Help them get through work and reach out to friends while desperately trying to survive. Experience the frailty these themes bring and gain a better understanding of what it’s like to live with some of the most common mental health issues today.
- A compelling and emotional story offering a voice to those who have none.
- A fully voiced narrator who always has your best in mind. Probably.
- A gameplay system which adds to the weight of every story-choice you make.
- No “Game Over” screen, only alternate endings that tie into your choices.
- A soundtrack that has been tailor-made for this experience.
- Relationships that can be developed or broken.
- Game length varies depending on your choices, ranging from 1-3 hours with enough content that you can come back and explore different parts of the narrative in consequent playthroughs.
- As in real life, all of your choices are immediately saved. There is only one save.
Please Knock on My Door has been in development since autumn 2014 and was initially supposed to be a 6 month exploration of my own experiences with depression. A word of caution; this is a game that might be difficult to play for those who have dealt with psychological issues such as depression and anxiety. That said, I truly believe that through entertainment we are able to understand topics that would otherwise be too foreign for us. I hope this game can help you better understand what it can be like to live with these issues, like it has already helped me.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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- OS: Windows 7+
- Processor: Intel Core i7-2700K @ 3.5GHz or equivalent
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 670
- Storage: 4 GB available space
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- OS: Same
- Processor: Same
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Same
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Recommended resolution: 1920×1080
Mouse smoothing
As stated before, mouse smoothing is the interpolation of mouse raw input data and it was originally created for opto-mechanical mice. These mice didn’t have a very high resolution (usually up to 400 DPI) so cursor movement appeared jerky – cursor jumped few pixels each time. To prevent this jerky movement mouse smoothing was introduced. System is interpolating raw data from the mouse and creating additional data points so the final mouse movement on the screen is smooth.
This feature should not exist today as every mouse on the market has at least 800 DPI resolution, however it is still used in some games and some mouse manufacturers are using it to further increase the perceived DPI. Unfortunately is not easily detectable apart from mouse movement feeling weird.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse acceleration is a different system to enhance mouse movement. Distance of the cursor on the screen is highly dependent on the speed which mouse is moved. Lets say user moves his mouse 5 cm in a 5 seconds – in this case the cursor will travel 200 pixels on the screen. Then the mouse is moved by the same 5 cm but in a 1-second and this time cursor will travel 1000 pixels – five times the distance of the slow movement.
This behaviour can be beneficial in desktop environment where you’d need low speeds for precision task (image editing) and simultaneously fast speeds for quickly moving cursor to the different parts of the screen. However it is highly undesirable in any game, where you are often in control of a camera. Every game will have different acceleration setting and it is impossible to achieve any consistent behaviour.
How to detect mouse acceleration in game
It is very easy to spot mouse acceleration in game as usually very fast mouse movement will result with several 360° rotation of players character. If you are not sure how to find out if your game uses acceleration, follow our guide:
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Mouse acceleration detection in FPS/TPS games
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Types of mouse acceleration
There are two basic types of mouse acceleration: positive acceleration and negative acceleration.
Positive mouse acceleration
Positive mouse acceleration means that faster you are moving your mouse, farther cursor will travel on the screen. This is the most common implementation and you can find it in Windows (under Enhance pointer precision) and in many games. Some games let you even tweak strength of acceleration.
Negative mouse acceleration
Exactly opposite behavior – faster your mouse is moving, less distance cursor will travel. This is undesirable behavior and could indicate some sort of input or performance problem as game is dropping mouse input data, but more commonly mouse control implementation is botched and not tested properly. Examples are Dunia engine based games like Far Cry 3 or Far Cry 3 – Blood Dragon where you need to increase polling rate within game data files.
Combination of positive and negative mouse acceleration
Rarely you can also encounter a combination of these two (example Remember Me, Watch_Dogs), where the game practically ignores low speed mouse movements and camera just staying still. Positive acceleration is applied to medium speed movements and there is also strong negative acceleration to high speed mouse movements.
Recommendations
While the setting is a personal choice, it is recommend that you disable mouse acceleration to provide a more consistent aim in more competitive titles. While playing without mouse acceleration may initially be difficult for players used to playing with it, after playing without it for some time most players become used to it, and often may see an improvement in the precision of their aim.
If you want to be able to move the mouse around the screen with fewer swipes without enabling mouse acceleration, it is recommend that you pickup a gaming mouse with a high DPI sensor. This allows for the ability to move the cursor farther while keeping the cursor movement consistent.
Also it is almost impossible to achieve the same acceleration setting between different games as games rarely let users tweak acceleration strength.
The best option is to always use raw mouse input although not many game supports this feature. Raw input means the game is taking unchanged data directly from mouse drivers before it goes through operating system enhancements.
Issues fixed
Mouse lag in Windows 8.1
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With Windows 8.1 Microsoft introduced new DPI scaling enhancements. which is causing mouse lag and strange mouse behavior in games.
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Disable DPI scalling
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Registry fix
Note: This will completely disable mouse acceleration for your system even in desktop environment. |
Windows smooth mouse even if you disable pointer precision
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Completely disable mouse smoothing 1. Open regedit 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00 00,a0,00,00,00,00,00,00 00,40,01,00,00,00,00,00 00,80,02,00,00,00,00,00 00,00,05,00,00,00,00,00 4. Edit SmoothMouseYCurve hex value like below and save 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00 66,a6,02,00,00,00,00,00 cd,4c,05,00,00,00,00,00 a0,99,0a,00,00,00,00,00 38,33,15,00,00,00,00,00 |
Please Knock on My Door has been in development since autumn 2014 and was initially supposed to be a 6 month exploration of my own experiences with depression. A word of caution; this is a game that might be difficult to play for those who have dealt with psychological issues such as depression and anxiety. That said, I truly believe that through entertainment we are able to understand topics that would otherwise be too foreign for us. I hope this game can help you better understand what it can be like to live with these issues, like it has already helped me.
Please Knock on My Door Key Features:
1, A compelling and emotional story offering a voice to those who have none.
2, A fully voiced narrator who always has your best in mind. Probably.
3, A gameplay system which adds to the weight of every story-choice you make.
4, No “Game Over” screen, only alternate endings that tie into your choices.
5, A soundtrack that has been tailor-made for this experience.
6, Relationships that can be developed or broken.
7, Game length varies depending on your choices, ranging from 1-3 hours with enough content that you can come back and explore different parts of the narrative in consequent playthroughs.
8, As in real life, all of your choices are immediately saved. There is only one save.
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | Intel Core i7-2700K @ 3.5GHz or equivalent | Same |
| VRAM | 2048 MB | 2 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB | 8 GB RAM |
| OS | Windows 7+ | Same |
| Graphics Card | GeForce GTX 670 | Same |
| Direct X | 11 | 11 |
| SOUND CARD | Yes | DirectX Compatible |
| HDD Space | 4 GB | 4 GB available space |
| Game Analysis | Please Knock on My Door is a story-driven game that delivers a unique narrative to players. Assume control over a person suffering from depression and social anxiety, and then help them get through life while desperately trying to make it to the next day. Experience a rich and emotional story that is voiced by a narrator who almost always has your best interests in mind. Please Knock on My Door was nominated for Games for Impact in 2017 Game of The Year Awards. Please Knock on My Door requires an Intel Core i7-2700K and a GeForce GTX 670 plus 8 GB of system RAM. | |
| Note | Recommended resolution: 1920x1080 | |