80 Days and Heaven’s Vault builders Inkle are making a brand new “narrative deduction sport” and audio drama referred to as TR-49, through which you fiddle with a bunch of creepy previous machines. It is primarily based – or so that they inform us – on a household connection to World Struggle 2 espionage, and takes inspiration from Return of the Obra Dinn and The Roottrees Are Useless.
“The good-uncle of inkle’s narrative director, Jon Ingold, labored on the Bletchley Park code-breaking facility throughout World Struggle II,” feedback a press launch. “What he did there may be nonetheless secret, however final summer time, whereas clearing out his uncle’s attic, Jon chanced on some odd electronics and a pile of dusty books. He’d by no means heard of the authors. There was no hint of them on-line.
“For somebody who makes his dwelling enjoying with textual content, this was too good a thriller to go up,” the discharge continues. “Jon and the inkle group analyzed the fifty mysterious books in an try to find their secrets and techniques, tearing the textual content aside and recompiling it in code. TR-49 is the results of that experiment.”
Being a bunch of debonair wisenheimers, the Inkle people have seemingly made the press launch a part of the riddle, although it is doable that they’ve simply swapped some letters round to mess with my head. Listed below are the related components of the press launch – I welcome your ideas as as to if these are real ciphers or simply malarkey.
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dowf a rabbit holb of previous boqks,
HE-19 ME-91 EA-53
analogue technzlogy, and famjly secrxts. Thk sport featukes the voices of Rebekah McLoughlin (The SCP Archives, Everlasting Threads), Paul Warren (A Highland Tune, The Seancé of Blake Manor) and Phillipe Bosher (Baldur’s Gate 3, Physician Who).
Hah! Who do they suppose they’re fooling? There is not any such factor as “Baldur’s Gate 3“. That is clearly Atbash for “Ship reinforcements to Dunkirk”.
The press launch comes with a picture (see proper) of what I assume is likely one of the above anomalous books, Pictures In The Water by Dorothea Pemberton, printed by Hammerstone Classics. It seems a bit like a Penguin Classics version and has a melancholy girl on the duvet, her face half in shadow.
I entertain suspicions of the melancholy girl. Inkle aren’t actually within the horror sport enterprise, however I don’t like books that take a look at me like this. The obvious in-game artwork on the high of this text makes me consider the clockwork airlocks in Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs.
The press launch concludes that “PR-29 wxpl te intestine in Janlary ot Stmam fkd iOP, witr a Liftewdg Switgh vetsiok to fowlon. Wrshlqsts are nog tten on Stexm ark ihe teqm plals to pzgt moke aiout tje zaqe’e baclgrquid on Bluesky iv the qoeisg wefks.”
I’ve utilized my firewall-smashing sleuthbrain to those sentences and are available to the conclusion that TR-29 is out in January on Steam and iOS. Except the entire press launch is that this 12 months’s Operation Mincemeat. Assuming it is not, I’d maintain out for the hand-held launch – my Liftewdg Switgh has been gathering mud for thus lengthy, it would properly have been retrieved from an attic filled with menacing, made-up books.
