BABEL, UNINDEXED

The map resets every day. Language doesn’t.

You are a librarian in a stray sector of the Library of Babel: thirty-seven hexagonal rooms that forget their own shape every morning. Whatever you walked through yesterday is unknown again today. What stays is language — the words you have copied from the shelves and the sentence forms you have repaired.

Pair a form with a word and you have an anchor: a sentence the Library will, for a while, accept as true.

• “The next room reveals shelves.” — the next unknown door opens on exactly that.
• “Memory exists.” — rooms you enter today will still be there tomorrow.
• “I am still a guide.” — stepping into the unknown stops costing you lucidity.

Only three anchors hold at once, and a new one pushes out the oldest. Most days come down to one question: which sentence do you keep?

Three sentences to the exit

To leave, you have to make the Library admit three things, each larger than the last: “I am still a reader.” “The boundary exists.” “The outside exists.” Until the last one holds, there is no exit anywhere on the map.

Every day that passes, the Library swallows a little more. Run out of days and you are archived — one more page of unreadable text.

What’s in it

• A 37-hex map that wraps around on all six sides and is wiped clean every day
• 4 sentence forms, three kinds of words, 3 anchor slots — every sentence you can write does something
• No combat. The pressure is your dwindling lucidity, and a library that keeps forgetting you
• One nameless reader, one questline, one way out

After Jorge Luis Borges’ short story The Library of Babel (1941): the hexagonal galleries, the pages of noise with a few legible words in them, the librarians looking for a catalogue of catalogues.

About this build

Made in 48 hours by a team of four for CiGA Game Jam 2026 (theme: Anchor). This is the jam version.

Language: Simplified Chinese & English.

Controls: mouse only. Length: about 30 minutes.

Credits

• yzsdr — team lead, game design, writing, programming (daily loop integration, main UI，web version full dev)
• Zhu Xuqi 朱旭琪 — programming
• Yao Mingzhe 姚明哲 — programming
• wWWEEE — art

Design breakdown (Chinese) · Gameplay video

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中文简介

地图每天重置，语言不会。

你是巴别图书馆里的一名图书管理员。这片三十七格的六边形子区每天都会忘记自己的形状：昨天走过的房间，今天全部变回未知。能留下来的只有语言，也就是你抄到的词和修好的句式。

把一条句式和一个词拼在一起，就写成一条锚。图书馆会暂时采信这句话，并照它行事：写下“下一间显露书架”，下一扇未知的门后就是书架；写下“记忆存在”，今天走过的房间明天还在。锚位只有三格，新的一句会挤掉最旧的一句。

想离开，要让图书馆依次承认三句话：“我仍是读者”“边界存在”“馆外存在”。最后一句成立之前，出口并不存在。每过一天，图书馆就多吞噬一分；走满之前没能离开，你会被归档，成为馆里又一页读不懂的字。

• 每日重置、六个方向首尾相接的 37 格六边形地图
• 4 条句式、三类词、三格锚位，写得出的每一句话都有效果
• 没有战斗，压力来自一点点用掉的清醒值，和一座每天都会把你忘掉的图书馆
• 一位失名读者，一条主线，一个出口

设定来自博尔赫斯 1941 年的短篇《巴别图书馆》。2026 CiGA Game Jam（主题 Anchor）作品，4 人 48 小时完成，此处为 Jam 版本。纯鼠标操作，一局约 30 分钟。

制作：yzsdr（队长、策划、文案、程序：每日循环整合与主交互界面、后续所有打磨优化、web端开发）· 朱旭琪（程序）· 姚明哲（程序）· wWWEEE（美术）