PHOTO · 1947
Ushuaia, January 1947
The civilian observer, the week he arrived.
TERRA OCCULTA
South of sixty, the map lies.
A third-person mystery in 3D and 2D, in one game. Every conspiracy is the cover story for a bigger one.
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A third-person mystery in 3D and 2D, in one game. Every conspiracy is the cover story for a bigger one.
A frequency nobody has used since 1947.
Turn the dial. Somewhere in the static, someone is still transmitting.
1500200025003000350040004500
Drag the red 1947 to the needleDrag the red 1947 to the needle, scroll, or use the arrow keys
Don’t trust the map.
“I thought it was a year. It was a frequency. It was both.”
In Ushuaia, at the end of the world, glaciologist and ice climber Luz Arrieta picks up a radio call on a frequency nobody has used since 1947.
It’s her grandfather, Tomás. His voice is young.
On the radio he is a navy radio operator on an expedition that ended early. She knows how his life ends. He doesn’t.
Every conspiracy is the cover story for a bigger one.
Five acts, five layers. Peel one off and there is another underneath.
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EXHIBIT IBUENOS AIRES · THE ALPS · ATACAMA ACT I · ILLUMINATI · NEW WORLD ORDER
THE ORDER
The Azimuth decides what goes on the map. A gala in Buenos Aires. An observatory in the Alps. A satellite station in the Atacama.
BUENOS AIRES · THE ALPS · ATACAMA
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EXHIBIT IIDRAKE PASSAGE · 60°00′S ACT II · FLAT EARTH
THE EDGE
The flights that never go south. The Drake Passage in a storm. Then the Ice Wall. You climb it.
DRAKE PASSAGE · 60°00′S
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EXHIBIT IIISOUTH OF 60 · UNDER THE ICE ACT III · THE BASES UNDER THE ICE
THE ICE
A station on no map. A lake under the ice. Twelve nations signed the Antarctic Treaty in 1959. There was a thirteenth signature.
SOUTH OF 60 · UNDER THE ICE
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EXHIBIT IVBEYOND THE WALL ACT IV · ATLANTIS · LEMURIA · HOLLOW EARTH
THE WORLDS BEYOND
Atlantis under the ice. Lemuria. Hyperborea. Agartha. Each one a world with its own light.
BEYOND THE WALL
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EXHIBIT VABOVE IT ALL ACT V · THE DOME
THE FIRMAMENT
A man in grey who hasn’t aged since 1947. And a choice: publish the map, guard it, or close the Wall forever.
ABOVE IT ALL
Two timelines. One radio.
What Tomás hides in 1947, Luz digs up today. What she learns, she tells him, so he can act eighty years ago.
RADIO HUT · 140 M
- 01
Today in 3D, third person.
Climb the ice with axes and rope. Slip into the Azimuth’s halls unseen. No guns.
- 02
1947 as a 2D side-scroller.
Tomás’s chapters play like a black-and-white newsreel.
- 03
The radio links them.
Cross-time puzzles in both directions. In the finale, both timelines share the screen.
Pin it. Connect it. Prove it.
The Board is a red-string corkboard: pin your photos, documents and recordings, then connect them. In the game, solving a theory unlocks the next chapter.
THEORY 02
The man in grey hasn’t aged since 1947.
Drag a string from pin to pin and connect the evidence that proves it. Or choose one pin, then another.
Civilian observer joined at Ushuaia.
Grey coat. Carries a surveying instrument.
Name: redacted.
Did not board the return ship.
DOCUMENT · 1947
Naval radio section
PHOTO · 2027
Ushuaia, a benchmark in the snow
Taken last week. Look at his face.
RECORDING
1947 kHz
“Don’t trust the map.”
PHOTO
An observatory in the Alps
The Azimuth’s hall. The floor is the Map.
MAP
The Map
Azimuthal projection. A ring of ice at the edge.
In the game, a solved theory unlocks the next chapter.
The Azimuth writes in light.
Their marks are written in an ink that only shows under their light. Illuminati means “the illuminated”.
SURVEY OFFICE · MEMORANDUM
FILE AZ-1947-0139 DEC 1947
SUBJECT: THE SOUTHERN SURVEY, 1947–48
- 1.The expedition crossed 60°00′S on 1 November and reached redacted on 12 November.
- 2.The survey party reports that the coastline does not close. redacted.it goes on91°00′S
- 3.The civilian observer, redacted, recommends the following correction to all charts: redacted.
- 4.Radio operator T. ARRIETA is to be redacted on his return, and his log redacted.
DISTRIBUTION: redacted
For the Office,XIII
60°S: the Wall is not a wall.
Hidden ink on the memorandum, visible under the UV lamp: a circled coordinate, 91°00′S, beside the line about the coastline (“it goes on”), and a line across the foot of the page: “60°S: the Wall is not a wall.”
Press and hold the page, then drag: the lamp follows your finger.Move the lamp across the page.
The map we know is only the part they let us see.
Past the Wall the light changes. Each world beyond the ice has its own look and its own rules.
01 / 04
ATLANTIS
Under the ice
A city that sank into the cold and never went dark.
02 / 04
LEMURIA
Beyond the ring
A continent the old maps drew and the new ones erased.
03 / 04
HYPERBOREA
Past the pole
Beyond the north wind, the old maps said. The old maps lie.
04 / 04
AGARTHA
Inside the Earth
The hollow Earth, the old books said. Someone left a light on.
Made for your phone first.
TERRA OCCULTA is made in Unity, 3D and 2D in one game, for touch and controller.
CONCEPT
The Map is the chapter select.
The ring of ice at its edge cracks open as you play, and new lands appear beyond it.
- FIRST
- iPhone · iPad · Android
- NEXT
- PC and consoles
- ENGINE
- Unity · 3D and 2D in one game
- STORY
- A prologue, “Fin del Mundo”, 24 chapters and eight 1947 chapters
- SCENES
- About 15 hours, in scenes of 10 to 15 minutes made for phone sessions
- RABBIT HOLES
- Optional side chapters, opened by optional evidence. Later, seasons.
- LANGUAGES
- English · Español
- NEVER
- No ads. No energy timers. No loot boxes.
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YOUR FIELD LOG
- Tuned the 1947 channel
- Crossed 60°S
- Proved a theory
- Read the hidden ink
Field log complete. You already know too much.