TRANSMISSION window: 'Revision 17' asks 'Who are you?'

About this game

Developer: Grid Sage Games · Publisher: Grid Sage Games · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Pixel art · Screen type: Dialogue / Conversation

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What to study

Cogmind talks to the player the way its machines talk to each other: through a terminal window. The transmission frame is titled like a protocol, the speaker is tagged 'Revision 17' in a version-tab on the border, and the single question 'Who are you?' is printed over a dim rain of binary that never stops being the background. There is no portrait, no name plate and no voice-acting cue, identity in this world is a build number. The design lesson is restraint: by keeping the dialogue inside the same green monospace system as every other screen, a story beat costs the interface nothing new, and the still-visible map at the right edge keeps the conversation feeling like something happening inside the run rather than a cutscene interrupting it. Frame at about 0:24 in the Alpha Trailer (Steam; manual extraction, the transmission window holds between the trailer's cuts).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

overlay-panel text-log

Components

Parts on screen.

Window Portrait Nameplate Speech bubble Map Dialogue box

Screen inventory

• the window is a terminal frame, not a speech bubble: a green box whose top border carries the spaced title T R A N S M I S S I O N, and a bright green tab on that border reading 'Revision 17', the sender is identified the way a file version would be, not by a portrait or a name plate
• the message itself is one short line, 'Who are you?', in the same bright green as the frame, typed over a field of dim binary digits that fills the window behind the text, the lore arrives as data first and words second
• the window does not cover the world: at right, the ASCII map stays visible mid-conversation, tan # walls, grey punctuation-glyph robots and items, a pink heart-shaped glyph and the blue @ of the Cogmind, so the transmission reads as an overlay on a live tactical situation, with a small green x at the window's lower-right corner as its only control

Top 3 colors

#000000 68%#010701 12%#000200 11%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Grid Sage Games, Cogmind screenshot: Steam trailer (Alpha Trailer), Grid Sage Games, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Grid Sage Games.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-27. verified 2026-10-27: manual extraction manual-transmission-24.png @ 24.0s in the Alpha Trailer, MD5 2cababf8ba3d205ccde5c21cd5bc5d54, from the verified-clean curl-shim download (56,811,737 B, MD5 948d5564f6ea377f9cf7d30ca9622be9; full decode to null with -xerror exit 0, zero error lines, decode-steam-722730-Alpha-Trailer.err), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the TRANSMISSION header, Revision 17 tab, the 'Who are you?' line and the ASCII map at right all legible; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

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