Control Resonant: How to Solve the Blinking Square Black Screen Puzzle
Spell HELLO WORLD, gather the letters Y, L, A, and N, then line up DYLAN to break free.
Spell HELLO WORLD, gather the letters Y, L, A, and N, then line up DYLAN to break free.
by AllThingsHow Staff
Image: Remedy Entertainment
At one point in Control Resonant you get dropped onto a fully black screen with nothing but a single blinking white square. There is no prompt and no obvious exit. The square is a cursor you control, and moving it the right way turns the whole thing into a short text puzzle that ends with the phrase “WAKE UP DYLAN” before the screen glitches away.
Quick answer: Hold the left stick right to spell “HELLO WORLD”, then move through the floating binary to grab the letters Y, L, A, and N in that order to build DYLAN, and steer the name into the red outline next to “WAKE UP”.
Hold the left analog stick toward the right. The blinking square marks your cursor; as it moves across the screen, it automatically prints text along its path.
Keep going right until the line reads “HELLO WORLD”. Once the full phrase appears, the puzzle shifts into its next stage on its own.
00:14Moving the Blinking SquareThe right-moving cursor prints HELLO before completing HELLO WORLD, confirming the phrase-entry step. Shown at 00:14 in Trophy Tom’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment
Collect Y, L, A, and N in order
After “WORLD” is written, control passes to the letter “D”. The screen fills with floating zeros and ones, and four letters are scattered among them.
With all four letters collected, the chain now spells DYLAN. Find the “WAKE UP” text on screen, where a red outline of the word “DYLAN” marks the target spot beside it.
Steer your letter string directly into that red outline so the two parts line up and read “WAKE UP DYLAN”.
01:00Aligning the TextThe assembled DYLAN chain enters the red outline beside WAKE UP to align the phrase. Shown at 01:00 in Trophy Tom’s video. Image: Remedy Entertainment
How you know it worked
When the name snaps into the outline, the full phrase “WAKE UP DYLAN” locks into place on the black screen. The text then glitches out, which ends the sequence and returns you to normal gameplay.
