MASK.exe

MASK.exe is a minimalist puzzle game framed as a dormant system, waiting for input. This was created Pittsburgh Global Game Jam 2026 under theme of “mask.”

Feature

• Cleaver to interprt the theme “mask” as verb, design a puzzle mechanics around masking.
• A interesting meta solution as ending of the game, telling narritive with surprising scene.

Description

You are instructed to launch the executable and proceed. The system accepts certain configurations, applies judgment, and offers no explanation. Every response you receive passes through a Mask.

Across five stages, the grid expands, fragments, and gradually loses its sense of stability. What begins as simple compliance turns into negotiation, experimentation, and eventually confrontation. The Mask remains constant. The system does not.

MASK.exe does not teach through instruction. It teaches through rejection.

Wear the Mask carefully.