This turned out to be a correct login/password combo for the Frog Fractions 2 ARG terminal at, which was previously thought to be a completely seperate ARG!Īfter logging in on that terminal, we discovered four soup tasting videos featuring Jim Crawford and Ben McGraw. It took several days for people to try to fit the map on the letter soup. Also it has some anomalies that suggest manual letter placing (namely, the :V spot and the 26 spot). DukeBG made a tool to do it, which allowed for moving, resizing, rotating and flipping of the map over the letter soup.Ī remark about the letter soup: it has the letters along the bottom and right edges cut off, we entertained the idea that we only have a quarter of the full letter soup. It was discovered that we had to overlay our map over it to read the line. That was a valid link on the game's website and a letter soup. The text of the journal found behind the board had some letters italicized, which spelled out `firewatchgamecomdataclientjpg`. Before the update, that board had a symbol that reminded Bloodborne Hunter's Mark. The sigil is on a board in one of the abandoned old shelters at Camp Arapahoe and on a cover of a journal found behind it. Unlike the Xbox One version that had been available since September, the PC version also added a sigil. On, Firewatch was updated on PC with the Free-Roam mode. Some developers seemed to hold more knowledge, however, saying that the answer will reveal itself in time (this was said not as a clue, but as a remark by Kevin Simmons from Kingdom of Loathing at PAX West 2016).
Moreover, they received subtle assurances that the ARG was nothing they’d be upset about supporting. They were presented, by a mysterious third party, with two images - the sigil and a map piece - and asked to hide the map piece behind the sigil (we can assume they were not told any particular instructions about hiding since all the developers did it in any way they liked). Pittmans, who each had a sigil in their games).Īs the ARG developed, some of the developers disclosed that they didn't actually know where all of these sigils were leading. Many of them follow each other on Twitter or know each other in one form or another (including brothers David and Kyle J. For all we know, the games (and one book) were created by a comparatively small teams or indie developers (with a broad definition of this word, pretty much just being self-published). It was first postulated that each game's developers had attended Indiecade however, this theory was later sunk. The question of whether or not the games involved with this ARG were linked in some way was very difficult to answer. They are included here for historical purposes: These resources were made before there was any solid information in regards to how the map should be used or solved. On, the final lines were confirmed and there were no speculative lines left. The arrangement of the map was complete as of with two "straight" arcs left as speculation lines. You can now try putting the puzzle together yourself with a tool made by DukeBG.
While at first it was not certain how these pieces ought to be assembled, as more pieces were discovered we were able to fill in the blanks. digging through the files and assets of the game), before solving the mystery the intended way.Īfter several glyphs had been discovered, it became clear that each of them was a fragment, intended to be joined together to form a larger puzzle. In certain cases, the glyph was first recovered using data-mining strategies (i.e. While the sigil itself was easily visible (even though been in vague places or displayed after very specific actions), seeing the second image required completing some challenge or figuring out some devious puzzle planted in the game. In each game where the sigil is present, it is accompanied by a second, hidden circular glyph with little circles, squares, and triangles on concentric arcs. By a combination of astute observation and dumb luck, the image, coined the "eye sigil" (the word "sigil" came from the resource names used in the games), now tied half a dozen games together.
Shortly afterward, users came forward and claimed that they had seen similar markings in other games, including Sokobond and Kingdom of Loathing. Then, on, a user discovered yet another similar marking in a game called Mini Metro.
The image was behind an airlock and had a similar sigil depicted on it, shortly after the game's release in June 2015. No clear answers about the images emerged for some time.Īround the same time, a similar image was found by players of the game " The Magic Circle" that also consisted of circles and arcs. In May 2015, a strange image was found in the SteamApp root directory of the game " Crypt of the Necrodancer." The purpose of the image remained unknown until another glyph was obtained, by snooping through the original image using a hex editor.
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