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id: electronic-devices--family-g17
lang: en
title: Media playback and analysis
summary: >-
  A device plays a recording that can be replayed and analyzed. A detail within
  the media becomes part of the solution.
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  - Electronic devices in games
  - Data
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  - id: source-86b980b788f54522
    title: Her Story
    url: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/368370/'
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  preview:
    updatedAt: '2026-10-22'
    title: Media playback and analysis
    description: >-
      A device plays a recording that can be replayed and analyzed. A detail
      within the media becomes part of the solution.
    image:
      src: images/mechanics/adventure-her-story-00.webp
      width: 1440
      height: 900
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      game: Her Story
      sourceUrl: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/368370/'
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      credit: Sam Barlow
      rights: >-
        Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Publisher-distributed
        Steam screenshot; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.
      caption: 'A search query, recordings and a user tag'
      alt: 'A search query, recordings and a user tag'
      markers:
        - x: 58
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          label: A query retrieves related recordings
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          label: The player adds a personal tag
    tips:
      - Preserve playback position when switching recordings.
    examples:
      - title: Her Story
        url: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/368370/'
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provenance: >-
  Original editorial design catalog consolidated from project discussions on
  2026-10-20. Complete discussion item lists and contextual limitations are
  preserved; linked primary sources support specific techniques, not the entire
  classification. English translation was prepared with machine assistance and
  editorial review.
license: CC-BY-4.0
codeLicense: MIT
attribution: gamemechanics.pro contributors
catalogKey: catalog/electronic-devices
---
# Media playback and analysis

id: electronic-devices--family-g17
type: mechanic
key: mechanic/electronic-devices--family-g17
lang: en
status: active
url: https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/electronic-devices--family-g17/

A device plays a recording that can be replayed and analyzed. A detail within the media becomes part of the solution.

## At a glance

![A search query, recordings and a user tag](https://gamemechanics.pro/images/mechanics/adventure-her-story-00.webp)

[Her Story](https://store.steampowered.com/app/368370/) · Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Publisher-distributed Steam screenshot; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.

1. A query retrieves related recordings
2. The player adds a personal tag

- Preserve playback position when switching recordings.

- [Her Story](https://store.steampowered.com/app/368370/)

## How it works

Devices: Computer; Smartphone; Camera; Device.

## Variants

### Variants and applications

<a id="family-g17-variants"></a>

- Control playback. Rule: Pause, rewind and slow down the recording to look for details... <a id="variant-g17-01"></a>
- Select a channel or track. Rule: Find the desired program, sound, camera or recording layer. <a id="variant-g17-02"></a>
- Increase and improve visibility. Rule: Change the scale, contrast or filter to read the hidden detail. <a id="variant-g17-03"></a>
- Clear and highlight audio. Rule: Separate the significant signal from the noise according to the game rules. <a id="variant-g17-04"></a>
- Compare records. Rule: Synchronize angles, voices and moments of one event. <a id="variant-g17-05"></a>
- Decipher the message. Rule: Translate code, spectrum, rhythm or distorted speech into understandable information. <a id="variant-g17-06"></a>
- Play the recording to the world. Rule: Let an NPC, sensor or other system hear or see it. <a id="variant-g17-07"></a>
- Select media content. Rule: Switch music, video or program to influence characters and surroundings... <a id="variant-g17-08"></a>

## Context and limits

Author's taxonomy of actions, task forms and end-to-end conditions for design. Categories overlap. References support individual families, not every variant.

## Connected materials


## Sources and provenance

Original editorial design catalog consolidated from project discussions on 2026-10-20. Complete discussion item lists and contextual limitations are preserved; linked primary sources support specific techniques, not the entire classification. English translation was prepared with machine assistance and editorial review.

- [Her Story](https://store.steampowered.com/app/368370/) (id: source-86b980b788f54522)

CC-BY-4.0 · gamemechanics.pro contributors