SIGNAL ARCHIVE: Pixel Relics

The city is full of signals you cannot see. SIGNAL ARCHIVE is a quiet exploration game about gathering, out of those signals, the fragments of things that should have existed. ■ Walk, collect, bring it home Scan while you are out, and fragments of relics surface from the signal density around you. Analyse them back home, and an object that was only a black silhouette slowly regains its outline, until you can tell what it was. Pick up the same thing again and the reconstruction goes further. The more of its shape returns, the more of the record about it you can read. ■ 125 relics A cassette tape. A disposable camera. A watch stopped at 07:14. Every one of them should be something you recognise. Yet the further you read into the records, the less things add up. As the survey descends into deeper layers, the description of a relic you already collected can be rewritten. Something you first…