Eye Sigil ARG

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Eye Sigil ARG

Eye Sigil.jpg

The Eye ARG, also known as the Sigil or Eye Sigil ARG, began in 2014 and involves at least 10 otherwise unrelated indie games which all contain a hidden symbol and a unique puzzle piece which forms part of a larger "map".
Creator Unknown
Status On Going
Discovered January 25th, 2016
Completed

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History

The Strange Glyph

On or around January 25th, 2016, a strange image was found in the SteamApp root directory of the game "Crypt of the Necrodancer". While this image had been found long before, its purpose remained unknown until another glyph was obtained, this time by snooping through the original image using a hex editor. Still, no clear answers about the images would emerge, until...

A Shared Mystery

By a combination of astute observation and dumb luck, it was discovered that the initial image found in Crypt of the Necrodancer, coined "the sigil", was present in other games as well. In each game where it is present, the sigil is accompanied by a second, hidden glyph. Sometimes, the glyph will become visible after completing a challenge in the game. In certain circumstances, the glyph has only been recovered using data-mining strategies (ie digging through the files/assets of the game).

The Big Picture

After several glyphs had been discovered, some began to wonder if, perhaps, each glyph was intended to be joined together to form a larger puzzle, which could then be applied somehow, either as a cipher or otherwise, in order to gain new information. While it is not certain how these pieces ought to be assembled, various guesses have been made as to their configuration. It is also currently assumed that we don't have all of the pieces yet, and so are still searching for sigils in games.

Possible solutions to the puzzle (ie configuring the pieces into one uniform image) include:

Example One Example Two Example Three Example Four
Glyph Example 1.png Glyph Example 2.png Glyph Example 3.png Glyph Example 5.jpeg

Please note that some older versions of the assembled puzzle no longer include all current pieces, as they were created prior to those pieces' discoveries.

If you want to give puzzle assemble a shot yourself, two up-to-date albums are available, one with all the pieces & sigils in their original format and one with labeled PNG versions of each piece, re-sized so their circles match in diameter. Historically, flipping and rotating of pieces is acceptable during assembly, however skewing/stretching/re-sizing of the piece is not. Piece overlap is encouraged, as it helps confirm a piece's true orientation.

Commonality Between the Games

The question of whether or not the games involved with this ARG are linked in some way has proven very difficult to answer. It was first postulated that each games' developers had attended Indiecade, however later discovery of additional games sunk this theory. For now, a consistent, viable theory of connection is lacking. However, coming up with one that works could be the key to finding the rest of the sigil-containing games.

Confirmed Appearances

No. Found In Store Release date Sigil Added Sigil Location Sigil Image Solution Puzzle piece Video
1 Crypt of the Necrodancer Steam Apr 25, 2015 May 29, 2015 Image hidden in the steam game folder Eye Sigil.jpg Hidden inside steam game files Cotn piece.png YouTube
2 Mini metro thumbnail thumbnail YouTube
3 Legend of Dungeon thumbnail thumbnail YouTube
4 The Magic Circle thumbnail thumbnail YouTube
5 Neon Struct thumbnail thumbnail YouTube
6 Mos Speedrun 2 thumbnail thumbnail YouTube
7 Flickers thumbnail thumbnail YouTube
8 Sokobond thumbnail thumbnail YouTube
9 Moon Hunters thumbnail thumbnail YouTube
10 Soda Drinker Pro thumbnail thumbnail YouTube
11 Bellular Hexatosis thumbnail Bellular hexatosis piece.png YouTube
. Slide the Shakes thumbnail YouTube
. Souls of Darkness thumbnail YouTube
. Kingdom of Loathing thumbnail YouTube

Media Appearances

The reveal of the ARG led to a few big threads on reddit, primarily /r/games, which in turn lead to some attention from vg 24/7, Kotaku and PCgamer.

Resources

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Clues

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