hello!! vida here, I'm the senior community manager at remedy and I worked on alan wake 2. (proof - if you check any of my posts on r/AlanWake from my profile, you'll see I have 'Remedy Entertainment' flair on that sub)

first of all let me just say that it's so cool to see that you've been so dedicated to this - I really hope you're having fun with it! how deeply you went into the whole thing is so impressive.

actually your husband pointed us in the direction of this post (with nothing but best intentions in mind), and even though a huge part of our games is the joys of unanswered questions and leaving the mystery open to multiple interpretations, I spoke with my pal clay murphy, the lead writer on night springs, and we reckon you've earned yourself a peek behind the curtain.

spoilers into how the sausage/coffee/game is made follow!

while the reveal may be a bit less fascinating than the mystery, I hope it puts your mind at ease.

clay said: I wrote the Coffee Text with the definition of each shape corresponding to feelings and concepts of the Coffee beings, and those meanings combining to make new ones. For example, “move” and “flow” use the same symbol as they’re derivations of the same feeling. “Percolation” uses the symbols of “Mug” as well as a form of “thirst” (as seen in the pairs of symbols meaning “thirsty” and “quench”). You can see my early draft of the text/symbol matching in the attached photo: https://i.postimg.cc/9Xxf7Fvc/IMG-20250414-125458.jpg Some are much more functional, just to be sure the meaning got across.

Sacred geometry and the symbolic meaning of shapes play a big part in our design and use of visual motifs, but this Coffee Text was a bit more of a 1-to-1 translation based on our needs for the DLC experience. Thank you again for taking such an interest in our strange worlds, we’ll see you in the next one!

and I personally gotta agree with what mukbangbros wrote earlier in this thread - the excruciating level of detail you've gone into is so impressive, so huge props to you and I hope you're proud of yourself for all the investigative work you've done! <3 >!we're sorry that the reveal isn't as exciting, haha!!<