Image Archaeology: A Pictish Stone
The museum archivist has found some old images and notes from a lost excavation!
Use the image adjustment features to inspect the images and find the hidden answers to their questions. You can use the browser version to play the game (recommended) or download the images and use your phone or computer photo editing software.
To play offline, download the images as a zip or download each image individually. (The answer image is obscured so don't worry about downloading it in advance).
I've tested the web version in chrome, the image filters seem to add pixelation in Safari. The default iOS and Samsung Photos should work well enough, but the google photo's app is too limited, so I'd recommend using Snapseed instead. You could also use photo editing software on your computer to play the game! All image editing software is different so some may work better than others.
The artefact in the game is inspired by real world artefacts (Pictish Stones). Check the Pictish Links for links to videos & other resources about the Picts & Pictish Art that I found particularly interesting!
Download
Install instructions
Download the zip file and extract the images to your phone or computer. Alternatively you can download the 5 images individually. Use any image editing software to find the answer to the questions (some may work better than others)
Development log
- Report from showing the game in Seoul!22 hours ago
- Exhibiting Paper Version in Seoul this Weekend!13 days ago
- Interactive Web Version Released!Aug 14, 2024
- Pictish Links!May 13, 2024
Comments
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I love how this evokes the real spectroscopy methods researchers have used to decipher illegible artifacts. Nice work!
Thanks very much! :)
This is such a fun game concept. I love the ARG-esque nature of applying images to editors in order to uncover hidden visual information.
Thanks very much! I'm glad you liked it! :)
Yeah it was an interesting challenge to make a game like this~
this is such a clever use of photo editing apps! (i did not heed your comments and tried it on google photos anyway but it did not work that well so i instead used affinity photo & it worked great, though it probably has more features than necessary for this purpose (: )
Thank you! :) I'm glad you managed to figure something out! Yeah it's tricky making something that is played with someone else's software, I didn't actually realize how different all the photo editors were until I started testing some of them out.