The symbol reminds me a little of the shapes on the walls in ODST made by the Engineers.

Patrick Klepek posted a story over at Vice Gaming about a set of symbols, first discovered in Crypt of the Necrodancer, and found in 18 other games so far. At one point, a set of coordinates led someone to find a USB drive in LA, which contained another symbol. It's still an unsolved mystery at this point.

I love that stuff like this can happen, and someone was able to get so many developers to hide stuff in their games without even knowing what it was ultimately for.

I've noticed them in several games (well, similar symbols), and it's always bothered me because of how much they resemble Forerunner glyphs from Halo 1. Trying to remember what recent games I've seen them in.

None of those games are on the "official" list, so it's probably just a coincidence...

Like this one in No Man's Sky:

Thanks for posting this. I actually saw the article pop up somewhere, but from the headline I figured it was just going to turn out that a bunch of developers had "borrowed" the same art assets from somewhere. This is clearly something else.

It's a game I played for years and it has, historically, been loaded with extremely difficult meta puzzles which required the entire community to work together in order to solve them. The designers LOVE mystery hunts and at least one of them participates in the MIT mystery hunt every year.

I would not be surprised in any way, shape, or form if this is all being done at their request and according to their design. It will likely result in something fun and neat that everyone can enjoy, like a free game or discounts to all of these devs' games or something.

Even if it wasn't designed by Zach Johnson, he is absolutely the perfect vector for doing something like this and whoever came up with the idea is very, very wise to use him for the initial piece of the puzzle (and, by extension, his community of gamers who are used to this sort of meta puzzle and always look out for them).