GLYPHIS_IO BBS: The Proxy Tapes 1989

This is my latest game and my first ever Steam release. I built it as a computer-based ARG where the machine itself is the story.

I wanted it to feel like something discovered rather than designed. A system you weren’t meant to access. A signal you weren’t meant to hear.

Everything in it feeds the illusion of a recovered machine: the interface, the files, the hidden nodes, the pirate radio energy, and the sense that history has been bent sideways.

I wanted the project to feel physical as well as digital. The tape, the desk setup, the old screen glow, and the lo-fi hardware language all help frame the game as a discovered object rather than a clean modern product.

At the core of the system is the BRADSONIC CGA+ architecture, a fictional piece of hardware that defines the look, feel, and limitations of the world. It anchors the fiction and gives the whole machine its identity.