Pomegranate Interactive is an independent cultural initiative: games, semantic engines, autonomous operators and clean-room reconstructions of software the industry abandoned, built where databases, ruins and myths intersect.
“Resurrecting abandoned futures without stealing their corpses.”
And We Burn The Sky has joined Red Flags: Open the Line and DreamWeb: Pomegranate Reconstruction outside the candidate ledger. All three can be obtained on itch.io for Windows, and DreamWeb for Linux as well. One flies with Normandie-Niémen from the first sortie to the return. One turns a novel into twenty-one maps of administrative violence. One brings a 1994 cyberpunk nightmare onto contemporary machines without sanding away its edges.
French pilots, Yak fighters, the Eastern Front. A campaign of whole sorties drawn from the novel Et Nous Brûlerons les Nuages: brief, take off, cover the others, fight, and bring the aircraft back to the field. Version 1.0.0 is out, for Windows, in French.
A playable adaptation of the novel Red Flags: twenty-one maps, five episodes, eight weapons and 87 secrets. Version 1.2.1 rebuilds its look across the whole campaign, in English and French, with a free field guide.
A complete reconstruction of the 1994 point-and-click nightmare, from its first scene to the credits: original structure, restored progression, modern saves and a self-contained offline runtime.
Three games are available: And We Burn The Sky, Red Flags: Open the Line and DreamWeb: Pomegranate Reconstruction. Another carries the current game work: Red Flags 2, adapted from La Couleur de la Grenade. Each dossier states what can be played, what is in production and what remains to be finished.
Playable builds under construction. Each dossier names the build it shows, what that build contains and what remains open.
01You are Viktor Ardent. Sainte-Anne, Paris, Luna Park: places still standing, instructions still legible, machines that never received an order to stop. The first-person adaptation of La Couleur de la Grenade.
Software the initiative runs locally and documents with its own evidence.
01Four books are published: two grown out of the Red Flags literary system, one out of history and inheritance, and one field manual for executable intent.
PublishedLa Couleur de la GrenadeA database novel about memory, provenance, history, vanished borders, and systems that keep operating long after belief has failed.
PublishedEt Nous Brûlerons les NuagesA literary memorial to Normandie-Niémen, and to the idea that men with almost nothing can still bend history.
Revised edition publishedRed FlagsA connected dark-fiction campaign through institutions, server rooms, clinics, consumer rituals and the afterimage of a civilization that still calls its failures progress.
PublishedThe Prompt Is Not the ProductA field manual for executable intent, autonomous agents and machines of proof.The novels become places and actions. Red Flags: Open the Line, DreamWeb and And We Burn The Sky are released; the last builds flight, combat and the return around Normandie-Niémen. Red Flags 2 makes the spaces of La Couleur de la Grenade traversable. The literary branch and Field Horizon carry the memory of that body of work.
The initiative uses advanced systems while refusing the cult that treats technology as a substitute for judgment, memory or transcendence.
Core operation must remain possible on owned hardware. Cloud is an extension, not a leash.
Every autonomous action needs provenance, limits, recovery and a record of why it happened.
A system that cannot remember contradiction, failure and inheritance is merely generating weather.
Dead software deserves forensic respect, legal discipline and more imagination than asset laundering.
Agents become useful when governed by roles, constitutions, vetoes and shared state.
Semantic interpretation matters only when it changes models, decisions, worlds and future constraints.
The work begins on controlled local hardware, keeps its logs, and scales only when the architecture earns the right to become more complicated.
The future is not invented. It is exhumed, audited and made operational.
Pomegranate Interactive is not a company, an incorporated studio, an agency, an employer, a publisher of record or a commercial entity. The name connects works, research and machines; it does not simulate a legal person.
The work grows from SQL, logs, local models, reverse engineering, military and religious history, late-1990s PC culture, abandoned leisure architecture and a deep suspicion of every institution that calls its own decay progress. Somewhere in a country that disappeared long ago.
Research conversations, technical collaboration, publishing, game preservation and serious artistic partnerships are welcome. Generic growth-hacking sermons may remain outside the perimeter.
