Loading screen symbols

[Adeon]

Has anyone looked into the loading screen? It seems to to be a summary of the entire game.

I know it's not related to any puzzle or ending, but it feels like there's a lot of intent there. It's basically a roadmap of everything that occurs in the game!

[jshbckr]

I was also curious about this after noticing that it seemed to be the game’s sequence of events.
The game had me often thinking of the “as above, so below” of it all, with the way we see reoccurring patterns, mechanics, etc. at vastly different scales (quantum/subatomic, microscopic, up to cosmic) and how the game plays with the ideas of these orbs simultaneously being expansive planets to explore while also being something we can carry or even nest into other orbs.

Anyway, all of that is to say that my interpretation of the sequence is that it’s something like a genome sequence, a set of instructions that a cell uses to replicate. Like a cell following wordless instructions to complete its replication cycle, we intuited instructions from our surroundings and completed a cycle.

At least that was my interpretation of the ending, the creature we evolved into being responsible for shooting the light down at the beginning of the game and hatching the player.