SNAKE EYESINTERFACE ATLAS
Workbook / Study 02 of 28

Whose experience are we designing for?

40 questions · solo workbook

Foundation review after Study 3, question 41. See the review plan ↗

Question index ⌄

1. Before you play

01What are you trying to do in the game at the moment you want to study?02Which way of checking would answer your question?03What exact build, dated picture or remembered session are you using?04Which part of your usual setup matters for this attempt?05What did you already know about this screen before you looked at it today?

2. Find the sound settings

06Which row does the menu mark before your first input?07Which destination do you expect will let you change the sound?08What on the menu makes you expect your chosen input will open that destination?09What path did the marker actually take to the row you activated?10What was the first visible response after you activated that row?11Where did the marker land when you used Back from the settled page?12Which stretch of that route, if any, felt slow to you?

3. Read the Classic battle

13Whose turn do you read when you return to this frame?14What, if anything, has the game told you about the result of the roll?15Which words or marks did you actually look at to answer?16Which part of your answer came from knowing the rules before you saw the frame?17What would you choose to do while the board is in this state?18Before trying it, what do you expect one press on Attack to do here?19If you tried that input in a matching live state, what visibly changed first?

4. Explain a pause

20What could a silent screen recording show about the moment before Keep editing was chosen?21What two different goals could account for that same pause?22What would you ask yourself right after a pause like that to find out what it meant?23Before you finish your own portrait pair, what do you expect to see the next time you open it?24If you saved and reopened a disposable local profile, what did the two cards actually show?

5. Read a shipped example

25What is one input the game records in the training display?26Where can you find a visible consequence of play in the same image?27What would you still need to know before calling one of those inputs a mistake?28If Back takes you somewhere unexpected in Snake Eyes, which two events would you record separately?

6. Compare one thing

29What single detail will you vary for this comparison?30What will you hold steady so the two attempts are comparable?31What did you already know on the second pass because of what you tried first?32At the same point in the second pass, what was the clearest difference you noticed?33What do you think accounts for the pattern across your two passes?34What else could explain the difference you noticed?35What single observation on your next pass would separate those two explanations?

7. Your decision for the Architect

36Which part of that moment would you want to preserve even if you could make the task faster?37What one detail do you choose to keep, revise or leave open today?38What specific moment should the Architect look at to understand your decision?39What result from another solo attempt would make you reconsider that choice?40What question about someone else’s experience belongs in Part 2?
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Group 2 of 7 · Find the sound settings

On the settled estate menu, answer the first three questions before moving, then try your route quietly and return after the destination settles.

Question 12 of 40 · Interpretation

Which stretch of that route, if any, felt slow to you?

Locate the feeling between two events. Use elapsed time only if you measured it.

A follow-up if you want to go deeper

What would you watch for on a replay to find where that stretch of time went?

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What was it like for you?

Where, if anywhere, did the effort of getting there interrupt what you wanted to do?

Try this question on three Snake Eyes screens

Finish your first prediction, then choose a screen. Describe one cue, one thing you did and how that moment felt.

Estate home

Go to the place you would change sound, let the page settle, then return. Where on that round trip did you feel most at ease?

Welcome home. A small marker sits beside Campaign, with a list of destinations to the left of a gold serpent.R32 Release · Welcome home · dated reference, 2 November 2026Open the field guide and ranked references ↗
WATCH AT YOUR DESK

Watch for this. Locate a stretch between two events on the estate route. Describe how that interval felt before trying to explain the cause.

Where did the route take effort?18 sec · English captions
Chapters, transcript and source

Break one trip to settings into finding, moving, opening and returning.

Start from a settled estate screen. Write your destination before touching the controls.

Record only the events you can observe in your own run. If something felt slow, place that feeling between two events.

When you use Back in your run, note which row is marked on return and whether you feel ready to go somewhere else.

Snake Eyes R32 Windows release captures, 2 November 2026. The moving brackets and enlarged details annotate archival stills. The method cards illustrate a solo exercise.

After watching. What would you watch on a replay to check that impression?

Section plan · about 10–20 minutes

Separate finding a destination from operating it

On a disposable local profile, let the estate settle with your usual device. Say where you would change sound, move to that place, enter, and return without altering a setting. Record the first movement, first activation and first visible response. If Back skips a transition, describe its phase and try the settled page separately.

Bring back · The actual destination and return row, plus one clue that locates any hesitation in finding, navigating or waiting.

One set of captures serves this entire section. Open the question that collects them →

The smallest useful Unreal observation ↗ · Read “Estate run card.” Note how the book controls the pointer position and the phase at which Back is used.

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