So, about that Morse Code

[Oymon]

Figured I'd post the translation of all that Morse Code from the game's page here for those that wanna know what it means.

Here's the full translation:
NOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITEATTHEBEGINNINGNOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSTHEREISNOTHINGNOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITEYOUWILLBEALONENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINTHEINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITEINTHENOTHINGNESSNOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITETHENNOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITEMAYBEYOUWILLFINDNOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSJUSTALITTLETHINGNOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITETHENNOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITEJUSTBYBEINGAWAREOFTHATLITTLETHINGNOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITEJUSTBYEXPLORINGTHATLITTLETHINGNOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITEYOUWILLMAKETHELITTLETHINGTOGROWNOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITEYOUWILLMAKETHETHINGTOEVOLVENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITETHENNOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITEMAYBEYOUWILLLOVETHATTHINGNOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITEANDYOUWILLREALIZETHATYOUHAVEGROWNNOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITEANDYOUWILLREALIZETHATYOUHAVEEVOLVEDNOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITEANDTHEWORLDHASCHANGEDNOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITEWELCOMEINTOTHEINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITENOTHINGNESSINFINITEFINDYOUROWNSENS

As you can see it's kind of a mess, seems to just be full of 'NOTHINGNESS' and 'INFINITE'.

However, a closer inspection shows that there are other words scattered throughout.

If you remove all instances of 'NOTHINGNESSINFINITE' from the block of text, you'll get the following lines:

AT THE BEGINNING
THERE IS NOTHING
YOU WILL BE ALONE
IN THE INFINITE
IN THE NOTHINGNESS
THEN MAYBE YOU WILL FIND JUST A LITTLE THING
THEN JUST BY BEING AWARE OF THAT LITTLE THING
JUST BY EXPLORING THAT LITTLE THING
YOU WILL MAKE THE LITTLE THING TO GROW
YOU WILL MAKE THE THING TO EVOLVE
THEN MAYBE YOU WILL LOVE THAT THING
AND YOU WILL REALIZE THAT YOU HAVE GROWN
AND YOU WILL REALIZE THAT YOU HAVE EVOLVED
AND THE WORLD HAS CHANGED
WELCOME INTO THE INFINITE
FIND YOUR OWN SENS

As for what it might mean, well...

I'll leave you to ponder that...

[null_sign]

It seems to basically describe the meta state of the game itself in a nascent state and being a collaborative community effort via early access, which will inform the meaning of the game. It’s also what the game is shown to be like in the teaser: you start in a void and eventually find something (ostensibly a SenS). Whatever that is, it grows into the rest of the experience. The initial light looks like a giant branching structure, which might be indicative of branching dialogue/choices shaping the experience and so represents the totality of paths one can take in the game. This is interesting because, whereas in NaissanceE we're always the ones trying to escape the 'omnistructure,' it looks like any structures are here contained within our choices. That gives the game an ostensible feeling of freedom rather than entrapment.

That phrase "find your own SenS'' and how it relates to the idea of growing something in nothing implies that the player will explore their own special version of the game in some sense. From the teaser it looks like we pick dialogue options or particular thoughts and those thoughts and words shape SenS, which is how players “find their own SenS.” They get to pick the type of experience they have in that sense.

It’s confusing to think about a game being in itself but that also introduces the idea of recursion as a possible theme. There’s also a theme of signal to noise in the morse code and with the static to the rest of the game (which might just be a representation of interference with the data capture systems or the "interpretation system" mentioned in the trailer dialogue options). I think there's some possibility that another data capture the foundation-like organization that started this experiment-gone-wrong mentions could be the player themselves as a meta entity shaping the infinite nothingness, but it's too early to say definitively.

[Podunk Noname]

A normal day of existential crisis and acceptance of one's finitude in the infinite.

[Swan Dancer]

I was about to post this myself. Guess you beat me to it. Great work nonetheless.

[Leinad Reign]

Reminds me of "The End is never the end is never the end is..." by Crows Crows Crows (Stanley Parable) ^^