#signal speculation
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I love them
signal?
soon...
have i ever mentioned the eerie humanoid shape you can see in some of the signal glitches
who is this.

me
no way it’s le creep
videocult are being cryptic again!!!
HOW DID YOI GET THE SATE!!!!!
i cant tell if they're being cryptic about signal or rain world
usually that wouldn't be an issue before downpour
Single
mcuruy
wouldn't be a release date right now
clearly the date says Feb 16, 2023 
yeah :)
i can just imagine the straight up vibes, playing as the canal bird or something, soaring across the purple seas as these bangers play in the background
before of course getting knocked on my ass by some other wretched creature flying around
(probably another one of these if the first signal video and the joar video are anything to go by)
signal?
no
probably within the next few months
few sets of months
downpour hype is still at its peak currently, so it would be unwise to post anything right now
so you're best off finding other stuff to look forward to in the meantime
like sons of the forest releasing on thursday :)
sequel to the survival game "the forest"
where you survival on an island with cannibals and mutants
ive never heard of that
said mutants look like this
aw haell naaaaaa
it's basically a horror sandbox game
haell naaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
but also the cannibals had pretty good AI

and in sons of the forest, they're aiming for like, scav-level AI
impossible
now cannibals will have their own moods, personality traits, skill traits, jobs, goals, personal opinions, etc
the trolling went up a notch?!
yes!
it also almost looks scarier than the first game
some of the new mutants are fucking NASTY
i dont like gross stuff really
its mostly like
body horror?
a non gory kind of body horror
monsters that have really warped and deformed bodies
thats the worst 😖
Oooh that game is getting a sequel?
there's something behind one of the trees in the first signal teaser that reminds me of the forest's mutants
i cant stand (jojo reference btw) to look at mutated stuff
Never played but it’s always looked really cool, might check it out!
The wiggled
wait ive never even noticed that
its so freaky
i wouldn't be surprised if signal game goes like, the forest levels of freaky, considering i'm VERY convinced the protag is gonna look like this
headless bird humanoid
A classic staple of all mutant-style games 
its less disturbing in this case though because of the color
the pale white makes it look like a living greek statue or something
instead of
skin.

i wonder if it'll have stuff like this just lying around
would be epique
I have a feeling this game is gonna be a banger
I like how the only think we know for sure about signal is that it's 3D
You can just never know with videocult
We have no clue what genre it's going to be (if it would even fit in one)
joar did confirm it's unconventionally designed like rain world
though in a different way from rain world
s-signal??
the truth is that signal was just a james primate album visualizer the whole time
(i would not complain tbh)
its funny that people still believe that lol
waves, signals
Thank you I worked very hard on it
i once had a dream that the game released and it was just nothing anyone would have guessed
it took place in modern times, and you played as a jet pilot following around weird bird-ish abomination thingies
another time i had a dream related to signal but it was completely different
instead it was a game where you played as this thing that looked like a weird red and orange pair of legs that was procedurally animated and the game name was "the red wing" or some shit like that
and it just looked like juice galaxy lol
juice galaxy was the real signal all along
man its been a while since the last joar art post
understandable though, especially since he's been posting blender videos, which take a while to make
probably wants to focus on gamedev and other stuff right now
Need to replay this
Developer updates it all the time

I guess there is a possibility, but it might be a very small one
i highly doubt it honestly
they are
and honestly i think the tone of the soundtrack could be a good hint for what the gameplay is like
a lot of it is rather upbeat and energetic, so we can easily assume this will be a fast paced game
i still STRONGLY believe we're going to be playing as one of these, and that these are essentially an evolution of the animalmyn character concept
when u warp
and we're likely going to compete with others like ourselves, similarly to the animalmyn in, well, animalmyn
i just want more of being a fucked up little guy exploring a strange world
you can even see them occasionally crashing into eachother in the signal 001 video, which is also what was implied to have happened in the "bird" video on joar's twitter, where you can see in the distance that another one of these "man-birds" is flying away from the scene, as well as some others off to the side
if that's what signal is im cool with it
yeah so far i'm thoroughly convinced signal game is basically animalmyn but with flight and time shenanigans
seeing one of these in real life would probably be terrifying lol
they clearly have a very humanoid torso and upper arm, but their wingspan is really massive
you can still see how massive their wings are in the first video when you see them occasionally fly down to land (or fall?) in the background
oh what the fuck why did it get so compressed
cant even see now
anyways
i think we're probably going to see a few other flying baddies as well, like these things
these guys are absolutely MASSIVE and seem to be patrolling the spire in signal 003
in fact
they might even be the guardians of signal game, or at least one of the obstacles keeping you from scaling this spire
pic unrelated
Signal guardian
signal?
rise and shine signalers
salutations
Darthzz posting the same 7 reaction files repeatedly hoping for sigglnal news
signal?
live Hidden Tree In Signal 004 Reaction
Free unity tree asset
I’m going to eat that fucking tree
Nooo not the tree!
that's the signal
mr signal man hidden in the static of the first two videos appreciates it
i get to post this again
@acoustic heart off topic, but what's your opinion on downpour? (no spoilers)
good
Nice, me too
signal?
in the next 6-12 months maybe
Sorry guys signal comes out in 200 years 
The signal in question
World's coolest pride flag change my mind
true.
i like that the entire video is actually spinning around something obscured by fog (and the outrun sun overlay) in a circle
honestly it might be some kind of fallen tower, and the wheels and stuff were part of it
maybe another spire? 
the spire in signal 003 had rings around it, though they were much smaller
could be a different model or type of spire that collapsed somehow
signal?
Sognal
Sung gall
eviI woman
there is a 63% chance signar game is about time traveI
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hot damn !
Evill womaaann
I won'ter if singal will be at anniversary ?? 
videocult retweeted a thing about it
actually no but sanshee did post this:
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was it? 

a crueI worId!
lmao
they probably won't say anything about it till later this year
when downpour is no longer at the prime of its hype
i don't really have any specific date estimate for that anymore, just that, when DP is no longer at peak hype levels
and since console stuff happens in june, i think it's fair to say it won't be in the middle of this year either
Do we know console stuff would happen in june?
buddy said he couldn't say much more, but that to any RW console fans, "june"
its kinda obvious what that means anyways
Oh nice
signal?
I saw the video cult notification saying a new chapter and got so excited for signal stuff 
Hello
Same 
no way
INCREDIBLE
🙏
It's been almost 3 years since the start of siggal
WGHAT IS THIS

i meant 3

i miss the old pfp 
im a shrimp now
change it to jerma

I hope they have some news by the end of the sumner....
GAHHHHHH I BELIEVED IT FOR A SECOND
:(

yeah...
signalis
signal 🌴🫴🟣
🐦 🐦 🐦
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🏛️
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🖐️
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ji2q3WQE78&t=11s @acoustic heart
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they mention SIGNAL
it's also a very good rundown of how rain world was developed
oh neat
oh wow this is the kind of depth i dont tend to expect from RW videos
Yeah they really did their homework (:
I gotta say that it's really nice to just visit this thread every once in a while to get away from how much this server has blown up
There's definitely gonna be a lot more action here when another signal trailer gets released though
i feel like by that point, the original signal channel will be opened up instead
Oh yeah
still there might be some newbies who show up here
It's funny how a lot of the people on this sever don't even realize this thread exists
BTW i love how 
is the ancients flair
just finished watching this and yeah, great summation of the tigsource devlog and rain world's development as a whole
ooh, didn't know that this sound file had a distorted pipe organ in the background
that's cool as hell
yeah
catching up on this channel and seeing darthzz slowly lose it from no signal news 
whatever signal is, it's probably going to be more of a faithful thematic successor to rain world than downpour
it does already display similar environmental inspirations rain world drew from
Doper
downpour is good, but i feel like it doesn't quite reach vanilla standards of lore and region design
it just doesn't really have the rw vibe
hmm
I think it was very fun
And the lore explored was very interesting, especially seeing ||the far future||
Really put some perspective in the story
signal?
signal 3 is really nice atmosphere for night flight
i go and give the whole batch a listen at least once a week
very nice 
pretty fitting
i strongly suspect signal game may involve a lot of flight anyways
so real...
This is what I’d imagine you posting if you got ahold of their twitter account somehow lol
real?!
rai worl rea
I watn dev chat....
HE FORGOT TO MENTION IT HAS TIME TRAVEL!?!?
oopsie!
I hope Signal has no dialogue until 25 hours in
i hope signal is communicated entirely through interpretive dance
(except that would unironically be cool and on-brand for videocult)
I hope it is a match 3 game
I hope the game is just knockoff uno
i hope there's cool bug :)
signal... 🟣
someone decipher images from the noise
i wouldnt mind if signal game had a PS1 style aesthetic like this tbh
the way its used here looks awesome
I saw this, it’s so good 
grukk
eip
animalmyn:
and dont you say animalmyn is dead
This reminds me of that one image of James or joar looking at a drainage room on a giant screen
Ah, couldn’t remember which
through previous speculation im still convinced signal game is likely going to be similar to animalmyn in a lot of ways
animalmyn but bird man
with no head 🤯
Good template material 
no it isn't
not exactly signal related but i think you guys would enjoy this
same comment on this video as the above
just signal-adjacent vibes
the first one is way more signal adjacent tbh
similar rhythm, not to mention it actually uses the steel drums that most signal tracks use
i'd argue the second feels more like what you'd see in a signal
hard to articulate why, it just vibes that way
wildin
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thank you for this broadcast :signaltower:

thanke
One week (geological timescale) (several million years)
wow i can't post this tweet anymore because the server deems it inappropriate
i still think about it though
Sometimes a steam sale is just a steam sale
must be the economy or mercury is out of retrograde or something
i think we're genuinely at the point where it'd be fine for videocult to post more signal stuff now
or at least after june
because then we'll really be past downpour hype
we must make the signal ourselves
that would take forever
the oId (rain) worId died
everybody is IoreIess these days...
the most heated debates of our time are about sIugcat pronounce
It wasn't aIways thus.
we need SignaIis now more than ever
it shaII become the new weird and somewhat obscure game

I don't want Signal to be weird and obscure
I actually want it to be a super mainstream roguelike
im gonna obliterate you with my mind
I wouldn't be surprised if signal would be even more weird and unique than rain world
god i hope so
i want videocult to do really weird shit
because that's what they did for rain world and look what we got

i don't think there's really any denying how weird it's going to be tbh
videocult isn't backing down from surreal artistic vision any time soon
i hope the plot is something along the lines of
The Great Youbdus demands more hiccups and coughing, succeed in his will and you will be Corn
I hope signal is a first person shooter
well, Joar tweeted this once
https://twitter.com/joar_lj/status/944892968716132352?t=FOc3_uf_ODoKrJfbZizjoA&s=19
not sure If is about signal though
signal is an fps confirmed

i see something eIse
ok that is very silly
Die
I'll wake right back up again.
signal people now have access to twitter
signal?
videocult's new game, we don't know the name yet so we just call it "Signal"

single?
I am thinking of creating some fanart on Signals to fuel up my hyperfixation on it. So for that I wanted to ask y'all, what is your favourite Signal broadcast?
1 has my favorite song
signal 001 just HAS to be the main menu song, or intro song
the anticipation and buildup just screams about it
What about that tweet with clocks in it? For some reason someone said that it means that release is going to happen in 2025. Though I am not sure if there would be any new signals
Why would they confirm a release so ahead of time
Fair enough
there would most definitely be a reveal trailer before a release date unveiling
it'll be the 2 year anniversary of signal 6's release in a little over a month
get your birds and your purple water ready
@acoustic heart I have a game for you to take interest in while you're waiting for siggal
It's called fear and hunger
(i do mean to play that one at some point)
It's just a little fear and hunger
ah yes, that game
the game with so many content warnings to choose from that i don't think much of it can even be discussed in this server lol
say, you ever play pathologic (2)
I eated the signal game
a bit but never finished it
it gets better around the halfway point
well
"better" (more painful but in a cool way)
rain world reference
lmao
what even is this
videocult's next game (hopefully)
yeah
they've been developing a new game and keeping it vague for a while for about like 6-ish years
it is a 3D game and there are vibe teasers on their youtube channel
Actually it was yesterday
signal?
whar
happy signal saturday
tuesday is the best saturday
Looks like it's looking at us 
Can't wait for singleal
snigal
signal?
Singal
Singla
sifnal
sginal
siqnal sinjal sein semnaI signál signaaI signaIo sein signaaIi sigina segnaIe nîşan дохио ਇਸ਼ਾਰਾ сигнал සං .ාව சமிக்ஞை সংকেত 信号 信號 信号
JOART ALERT
Iast post was TODAY
those things back there are the same things all over the city in the canal bird video btw
this is really cool though, looks like they might be making another game alongside signal?
maybe this is just what signaIis Iooks Iike now?
incedible
Kinda looks like that guy who made Iron lung's games
and dusk
im pretty sure david szymanski didn't invent the PS1 visual style
lmao
i hope we can get off of the bike or even fall off of it
but also
it really reminds me of this old joart
real
Oh 100%
yes he did
david szymanski owns sony
real
o
yessss more joart this is good
is the new signal out? its been a while since i checked on here
i was like
but then i 
If there anyone who's able to create music similar to the previous signals, I dare you to collaborate with me, since I am learning low-poly and environment 3D art anyway
If they not going to do a new signal video, then we will
Nice!
signal?
realtalk the game world of this seems huge
when he falls off the building you can see all the stuff in the distance is actually fully 3D
Cool!!!

Why does he have a bat though
to bonk
was no one gonna tell me that joar has been posting stuff from new game maybe???? signal game footage ???????
Stick!

SIGNAL GAMEPLAY THEORY:
You start the game either walking or devolved and crawling. Throughout the course of the game, you deliver messages/follow signals to earn funds/energy. With enough funds, you can get upgrades which improve your current state. From crawling, to walking, to hoverbike, to some kind of flight, to something beyond that, allowing you to gradually reach and traverse environments you couldn't previously. You will see other creatures in the sky from the very start of the game that you cannot interact much with till later (like how in metroidvanias you see places you can't reach till you acquire certain abilities) . Along the way, you compete with others like yourself, as well as some other creatures that may simply want a feast.
So, essentially a true evolution of what Animalmyn was conceptualized to be.



Wacky
What theme would this convey
technological accelerationism on a macro and micro scale, and the horrors of capitalism

i hope we can do cool tricks on the body of the massive carcass in "feed drop"
Very cool idea
It also fits with the background on one of the signal teasers
Which what i can remember is just a pink ocean and a bunch of industrial constructions
Yeah signal #2
signal 003 takes place entirely in the sky
Very interested on the funny signal game
always gave me the impression we go up there at some point
Also signal 6
Has that industrial theme
The Pink Ocean ™️ seems like a major area or something of the sorts
Well, the symbol is basically alchemy sign of mercury, so my assumption that it is the sea of mercury, aka Sick Liquid Metal (very poison)
Quick, someone send the gif of the office full of mercury!
liquid mercury/quicksilver is silvery tho
since signal has more of a retro vaporwave aesthetic, while the alchemy ties are still very much likely, it's also likely a reference to the phrase "mercury is in retrograde", which means that from the perspective of the planet you're standing on, a planet's motion across the sky goes backwards after night compared to its usual direction for a certain period of time (which has often been tied to astrology stuff)
this matches up with the frequent rewinding of time seen in all the previous signal teaser videos
that and there's that one videocult tweet lol
the term "mercury is in retrograde" is also frequently used in retro-vaporwave aesthetic communities
That Pink sea busyness reminded me of my recent vaporwave 3D render 
What if it's both? Hmm
Intrigued nonetheless

Ooh, also doing 3D? Looks nice
Well, that's dissatisfying
im disappointing :(
true...
what if videocult starts doing cryptic announcements for the game via shortwave radio
wouldn't that be something
they should
when the signal is sus

Tree #8, with @Janaka_Lemon
new joart
the tree saga
so in the last dev chat in RW main, joar and james did say they were "off to work on secret project 5" when they left, and that got me thinking about what they could be
so far i'm thinking
- signal (obviously)
- the hovercar game (if that turns out not to be signal)
- trees :) (possibly some bigger blender project)
- rain world related stuff???
- another game project???
Tree!!
New message in #983436075299139628 jumpscare 
Real
I like how the fish seemingly jumps into the tree lol
The theme of the bird and fish switching places is also kinda interesting imo
Yeah I love this one
Just in time for gay motnh
gay birds
the inherent queerness of 3d modeled trees
Pipe bombs 
its kinda sad that we're all so burned on the lack of signal content that as soon as we see gameplay footage of something that genuinely might be signal or at least in some form either internally or externally related to it, the place just remains kinda dead
this shot goes hard btw
im still leaning more on the idea that its one of the 5 "big secret projects" videocult was working on rather than signal outright though
joar posting stuff always gets me at least somewhat creatively motivated to make something
i have GOT to learn BLENDER
Real
hoping for more hoverbike stuff soon
no
same :)
lizard plush and DP console news probably
which would also mean signal news will finally be free 
someday 
and maybe news about the bike game which could either be signal outright or one of the 5 secret projects they offhandedly mentioned working on
YOOOOOOOOO
When'd they mention those 5 secret projects?
back in november last year
they mentioned offhandedly when they left that they were off to work on one of their five secret projects
an antenna here looks like the one from signal 3
IT'S WITHOUT A FUCKING DOUBT SIGNAL GAME
the scale is insane
@broken anvil do you think we can get the signal channel opened up soon? since there's kind of no denying now that this bike game is signal
THIS LOOKS LIT
yea 100%
deliveroo simulator XX23
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for reference in case anyone is confused
let me move it up now

it was speculated, but the latest video more or less confirmed it yeah
that's right!! A big reason why rain worId is speciaI to me is the scaIe of the worId, though it's not aIways obvious in-game. Woes of the second dimension...
now that we know signaI is the same thing but 3D i can't wait to Feast on its bizarre structures
thanks darthzz. I knew you would have already analyzed them. that is why I exactly joined this server again to get info about it. long time no see, I remember I was on your server long time ago. my old account name was daresarn

oh hello, i haven't seen you in a while, i was wondering why you disappeared all of the sudden!
hello ❤️ . I was having issues irl. I resolved most of them. missed you so much. and conversations we had on your server. not just gaming but also painting, novels, films, comics and other visual art forms etc.
well i hope you're doing a lot better now at least 
yes thanks for good wishes, I appreciate it
the second strand type game
videocult strand-type genuinely sounds awesome tbh
truth is the first strand type game was bringing pearls to moon
this couId be the end of our cozy IittIe thread...
perhaps we'II be back here eventuaIIy
if joar goes quiet again 
HOLY SHIT WE FINALLY GOT SOME SIGNAL GAMEPLAY!

(Well we got confirmation that some joar art posts were signal gameplay)
Still awesome nonetheless
consnonle news Sadge
Darthzz when he sees a reception tower IRL
videocult projects is DEAD!!! enjoy your thread again
oh lol joar follows this?
that's fun
Not intentionally he was accidentally pinged at some point 
So uhh. Any big finds gang?
this is our permanent home now
Welcome back videocult projects...
now we wait till more signal stuff comes out
2026 year of the signal
signal discussion day 2! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y5Cbu5q1aU
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wow that sure is
a pier
and purple slop
and even some funky beats
What the heck I was rewatching it less than a hour ago is this the hivemind again.
erm,,, what the signal
it's kind of funny how angular and ''low-poly'' these structures are in hindsight, feels like something you'd see near an out-of-bounds part of the map in a game
that's the Signal Style
spire time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZad_irDSg0
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probably a lot of people's favorite [Signal]
omg tower
like that thing that signals come from
I used to not like this one tbh, but it's so evocative in so many ways
this one reminds me of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
not just the melody, the vibes come across pretty well too
true, I get what you mean
Gignal gleculation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nlvTsvctyY signal discussion day 4!!!
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this one is kind of Haunting
it's also the prettiest one
it's got that joarian charm on full display
come back krogg...

wheres signal discussion day 5..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLjyLyRwWp8 signal discussion day 5!!!!!!!
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and hello WILD it's been ages
anyway the music in this one goes hard
yayyy
Signal 003 my beloved
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZBPragiTr8 signal discussion, day 6!
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neat detail that darthzz pointed out long ago, signals 005 and 006 have a subtle crt filter going on. just like another game that videocult have been working on these past 1.5+ years...
signal discussion, day 3 (again!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZad_irDSg0
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I keep coming back to this one
now that signal is (probably) cancelled (or shelved idk) i really hope james releases some of the music for it + gives us of some insight into what it was (like he did with animalmyn)
also like, i assume they worked on it for quite some time, i really wonder why they suddenly just stopped working on it to work on another game
it looks very airframe ultra-y in general design philosophy, no?
when was the first AFU stuff shown off anyways
early 2023
not really, airframe so far seems way more grounded than whatever signal was going for, signal was way more surreal overall (giant statues coming out of the water and stuff), the only signal thing in airframe is the signal 03 tower™ being in one of the skyboxes, but also another minor detail is that signal 06 seems to have the same filter that they use in airframe
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man I love this one
it's so surreal but also really pretty
Gonna archive this since it's been inactive for quite a while, and now there's a server dedicated to Videocult projects
terrifying
@acoustic heart signal speculation:)
😱
put a warning before you jumpscare people like that
signals are just a teasers for new videocult game that is going to be released in 2025???
signal jumpscare
thats it

you can close the thread now lmao
weren't some of them teasers for Animalmyn?
you all know what Animalmyn is right?
sadly idk anything about signal but ill spectate from afar 
not really
all i know is female gender symbol but evil and fucked up
https://vxtwitter.com/joar_lj/status/1486824433616666627/photo/1
https://vxtwitter.com/joar_lj/status/1531739760422797312
"Bird" ~ Audio by @BRIGHTPRIMATE
shit
ok fixed it
so basically, first of all, these are so visually similar that i think they're connected
but also
feed drop?
more like FEEDFRWD
dkablbdsbjxamncdnm
now, given the scale of things and the constant bird's eye kind of view in the signals, i genuinely believe you will play as some kind of aerial creature
possibly one of these
it'd honestly make sense as a player character, given that their previous 3D project, animalmyn, was cancelled over the signal project, and something like a strange humanoid-bird-thingy creature would make sense as an evolution to animalmyn's characters
joar has often tried his hand at various aerial creatures after all, originally having an idea for slugcat to be an aerial creature as well (scavs too later in development!) but settled on more grounded movement (for scavs too) because it was easier to design at the time
it'd also make a lot of sense out of clumsier movement on land, since you'd play as a creature with SEEMINGLY no legs, just long arms with wings and, seemingly, a long tail
i also want to note
videocult retweeted this video
videocult never retweets joar's personal work on that account unless it's directly videocult related, like his slugcat backflip drawing for example
typically its just james primate retweeting, and one reason you can tell this wasn't an accident is because james primate retweeted it as well
now, for the really spicy speculation from someone else in my server
the mercury symbol itself
☿
mercury in alchemy is known to shift between solid and liquid states, and this became symbolic of shifting between life and death itself
someone in my server speculated that the area in the video and "feed drop" is a different world to the signals, and that whenever the mercury symbol shows up, we'll shift between worlds
oh dang i didn't know there was ever footage or even pics of animalmyn released, i only knew about the music
oh wow

what even was the direction of the og game?
well, animalmyn was some weird surreal adventure type game where you worked together with others like yourself surviving a chaotic, corrupt capitalist system in a digital mall world, basically acting as slaves
the bandcamp page for the soundtrack has some info too
godamn
now back to the signal stuff, if the player character is one of these birds, then you may be wondering;
what are these things?
well, i think it's possible they're an enemy type
possibly inspired by the skewers in wayne barlowe's expedition
joar was a fan of stuff like that after all iirc
skewers are self explanatory, flying predators that hunt their targets by sweeping down on them and skewering them with their face blades
it's possible one of these things knocked down the bird-like creature in the recent video
or, perhaps, another one of these birds
you can see one flying around in the background, after all
so the theory here is:
- you play as a flying semi-humanoid creature
- the mercury symbol represents shifting between two worlds
- one world is polluted with a purple sea, including blue and purple growths
- one world is a city with spires and red fluids, including red and pink growths
- red liquid possibly comes from the weird dead giant mutant creature thingy
- "skewers" that possibly act as some kind of coordinated hunters, possibly responsible for the death of the bird and the giant creature
also worth noting you can see some kind of flying creatures in the first signal video, possibly related to the "bird"
ok a couple things:
SIGNAL_003 has the Underhang leitmotif - this is important because it is a leitmotif that appears a few times, especially in "approaching iterator" areas, with Gate to the Shoreline and Underhang playing ingame, and Flutter and Glass Arcs
SIGNAL_005 has the same strumline as Threat - Outskirts; cannot really determine anything from this other than that the Threat - Outskirts melody leitmotif appears prominently in many songs in the game
Moon has a white pearl lore snippet about "sky-sails":
It's a catalog of bolts and screws for sky-sail joinery. We iterators were built for pragmatism, so it is an understatement to say that we were not known for our appreciation of beauty... but the sky-sails in flight during the big festivals always filled my soul with emotion.
If Signal is set in the past of Rain World (not that it necessarily is), the flying "skewer-esque" things in SIGNAL-003 could be these same sky-sails mentioned by her.
it'd be kinda odd if that were the case, considering some things radiate more "human-made" energy
but it's not entirely impossible
personally i've felt that these things have such RW vibes to them as a natural extent of this being the sort of "primary vibe" the devs tend to go for in general
joar tends to experiment with various concepts of "surrealist sci-fi" in some urban and industrial environments, where james tends to borrow similar motifs to his previous works befitting of the type of atmosphere he's trying to create
imo signal 5 is the best
vastly prefer signal 3 myself
i started appreciating signal 5 more when i realized the "sun" was actually a foreground overlay filter and not actually in the background, thought it looked kinda janky previously
also
Tree #2, with @Janaka_Lemon
this creature makes me think of the "sky sails", aka "skewers", when it flies sideways
except the two prongs are in the front
these tree videos kinda feel less likely to be related to signal than "feed drop" and the canal bird video, but they're still cool
hasn't been retweeted by videocult yet, though it was only posted a few minutes ago
the other tree video has been retweeted by videocult, however
Collab with @Janaka_Lemon
it also has the same red-purple liquid of the canal bird video
a common theme with all of these is the focus on flying creatures and strange plants, which i find super interesting
even aside from all this speculation, that animation is damn smooth
the creature also seems to be a mix between a moth and a fish, has whiskers similar to a catfish
wait what
is that... text?
i can see an H
although it could just be the blur and that in reality it's just a bunch of light pink lines or something
which would still be pretty interesting
woah I hadn't seen these, the animation is very very smooth
yeah it's awesome
yeah
the one with the moth-fish being the most recent, just came out like 30 minutes ago
oh hey videocult retweeted it just now
that bird video is really something
the environment is just so detailed and believable
yeah
and with the music on top too
assuming they are related to videocult's next game (the signal game), which at this point i'm HIGHLY convinced they are, they're definitely not in-game footage, of course
do we think this could be related to signal? the art styles seem to have very different vibes comparatively
just separate cinematics
my theory starting from here explains that
basically the theory here is that you play as some kind of flying creature in this game among various other flying creatures, and you're constantly shifting between two worlds: the purple fluid world, and the red fluid world
I did see that earlier along with the mercury speculation which could maybe explain the contrasting moods between signals 1-5 and this
and this happens any time the mercury symbol shows up
i believe that signal_003 takes place in the red fluid world, while the rest of course take place in the purple fluid world
interesting
you can even see a similar spire in the "feed drop" image
will have to rewatch the signals with this in mind
there may be more than one
REAL leak
in other news
i was busy with something today
SIGNAL in PREY
Totally honest, this is my favorite joar art
its pretty cool
I was wondering why they did that
💜
bird game
darthz drinks lean to understand better the lore of the signals
Can't wait for joar to show up and be like "lol this is all wrong"
it always is
guess i'll die
yea lol
yes
the water will be purple for some portion of the game
🍇
Live.
whar?
thread got archived

real
signal 003 is my favorite
if i were to rank them based on visuals...
- signal 3
- signal 1
- signal 6
- signal 4
- signal 5
- signal 2
and if i were to rank them based on tunes...
- signal 5
- signal 2
- signal 3
- signal 6
- signal 1
- signal 4
you know i just realized
if this is indeed a game where you play as a flying critter, then areas like in signal 6 could be very interesting, since it's foggy
I'm assuming best to worst
For me it's something like 1, 5, 6, 2, 3, 4
personally, I think 5's music is the best.
i like 3 the best
music wise
sounds mysterious and sad
but also
like its building to smth
based signal 3 enjoyer
signal 003 moment
so true
yoo
What is this
the spires
Also I became inactive on the server again oops
Oh is it these signals
and in signal 3 something similar but 100% not the same, was shown
The music stuff
yea
h
the mast
🥬
the sludge looks nasty
sloodge
tasty?
bloop
ratio
lmao
can we co-opt this thread and turn it into a zonkerdoodle appreciation thread
what are they gonna do? ban us?
i live here
u arent my landlord
wanna see something cool look at my tinfoil hat speculations
signal?
i had a dream last night someone actually leaked signal gameplay

I had a dream last night that my town had walkable infrastructure
It was a good dream

What was it like?
that's the funny part
we got like new screenshots but then the streams were taken down




<- he created this thing after all









