Not only will the new Steam Controller scream at you but it can play tunes as well

The unique Steam Controller was plenty of enjoyable to mess with, and you may equally mess with the brand new Steam Controller to play foolish little tunes. ICYMI: the Steam Controller likes to scream at you if you drop (or throw) it.

Fairly a number of years in the past we had the open supply Steam Controller Singer undertaking, which now seems to have a successor with Steam Haptics Singer which has truly been round it appears since 2022 to work with the Steam Deck. The developer has not too long ago picked up the undertaking once more, to allow it to additionally work with Valve’s newer Steam Controller.

They launched model 1.11 at this time which “helps utilizing the again rumble haptics of the Steam Controller (2026)” and in addition “introduces an choice to permit MIDI recordsdata to regulate the acquire instantly” together with a number of different bits.

Giving it a check on Linux is easy with the included executable (on Linux it is simply named “steam-haptics-singer”). You simply obtain it, make it executable after which run it in terminal with an included MIDI file and the Steam Controller will sing away at you. The developer included a model of Portal Nonetheless Alive for testing within the releases, so this is a tough foolish little video of it singing:

Pure silliness however I adore it.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.