Is there a hidden message in new AI background?

Hi all,

First time posting here, but my curiosity finally got the better of me.

Looking at the new AI background for the AOE II event that just released you can see a ton of detail put into the image. There's build orders and tech trees posted on the wall, a book titled AOE IV and much more paying homage to the franchise.

AoE2DE_CompStomp_1920x1080.jpg (1920×1080) (ageofempires.com)

However, what's really got me interested is the binary notation on the keyboard. It doesn't seem to be random at all, but rather some kind of code.

If you look at the top part of the keyboard there is a standard set of 4 arrow keys, but the left key actually points right. This must be deliberate as it's a strange choice for a purely aesthetic purpose. As well as a certain key showing the binary pattern of "01 10". While all other keys only have a "0" or a "1".

I assume the bottom part of the keyboard is just random, but the top part is definitely suspect.

So I started by writing all the binary numbers down left to right, top to bottom and then divided them up into bytes (8 bits per byte). It came to:

11101001 233 E9 Ú

01000000 64 40 @

01101010 106 6A j

11101001 233 E9 Ú

10010011 147 93 ô

01001011 75 4B K

00110101 53 35 5

01000000 64 40 @

First column is binary, second is decimal, third is hexidecimal and then finally the ASCII value. What's interesting is that there are two patterns that repeat, "Ú" and "@". Which makes me feel as if there is definitely a pattern emerging from these binary values, I just can't figure out what it is.

I continued to try and interpret the binary patterns in different ways. Reading them top to bottom and also using various bit shifts to try and get them to fit between the standard ASCII table range (32 through to 127). I also tried dividing them up by 4 bits not 8 and then adding 32 to those values in order to try and get a readable ASCII value from each pattern.

Unfortunately, no matter what I tried, nothing got any clearer than the original "Ú@jÚôK5@" that I found.

Long story short, does anyone else feel there is a hidden pattern in the binary code found on the AI's keyboard?