A 2D PLATFORMER ABOUT A WORLD BUILT TO LIE TO YOU — AND THE ORB THAT LETS YOU SEE THROUGH IT.

GAME JAM 2026 · SIKAPTALA · THEME: "WE DON'T SEE THINGS AS THEY ARE" · TOP 8 FINALIST

Developed by Joshua Dela Cruz under team PopcornCat.

Overview

You are a scholar of the Veiled Institute, raised on a world of soft grass and open skies. One day you meet another version of yourself — rendered entirely in monochrome. He hands you the Visionary, a black eye-shaped orb, and vanishes. From that moment, holding it lets you toggle your sight between the world you were taught and the world that was hidden underneath it. Every obstacle you erase from the "real" world exists only because the sages of the Veiled Institute built it there to keep you looking away. Follow the golden floating gate, chase down the truth, and find out exactly what your teachers didn't want you to see.

KEY FEATURES:

THE VISIONARY

A BLACK EYE ORB THAT LETS YOU SEE PAST THE LIE

Hold Shift to look through the Visionary and toggle your sight between worlds. It's the only tool that lets you erase an obstacle from the world you were shown, into the world that was always underneath it.

THE DEFAULT WORLD

A GRASSY, SUNLIT WORLD — BUILT BY THE SAGES TO BE BELIEVED

This is the world the Veiled Institute taught you to trust: open fields, solid ground, nothing out of place. It's also the one the sages designed specifically so you'd never think to question it.

THE PLOT TWIST

THE MONOCHROME WORLD ISN'T THE ILLUSION — IT'S THE TRUTH

Toggle the Visionary and the color drains out — but so does the lie. What looks like the "fake" grayscale layer is actually reality; the grassy world above it was the one built to fool you.

PRECISION PLATFORMING

TOGGLE WISELY — THE VISIONARY HAS A COOLDOWN, AND THE WORLD DOESN'T WAIT

Switching sight isn't free. The orb needs time to recharge before it can be used again, and stepping back into the default world can cause platforms you relied on to crumble or vanish entirely. Every jump means reading both worlds at once and committing to where you'll actually land.

SIKAPTALA GAME JAM 2026

TOP 8 FINALIST — TEAM POPCORNCAT

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