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.”
Red Flags: Open the Line and DreamWeb: Pomegranate Reconstruction have left the candidate ledger. Both games are now available on itch.io for Windows and Linux. One turns a novel into twenty-one maps of administrative violence. The other brings a 1994 cyberpunk nightmare onto contemporary machines without sanding away its edges.
A playable adaptation of the novel Red Flags: twenty-one maps, five episodes, one secret map, eight weapons and no commercial IWAD requirement. Viktor Ardent walks through procedure until it becomes mechanical apocalypse.
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.
Games, operational systems and research architectures are listed separately and never mixed. What runs today, what is in production and what remains a written architecture are three different claims, and this page keeps them apart.
Playable worlds and clean-room recoveries. Each entry states what runs today and what does not.
05Red Flags: Open the Line is a playable adaptation of the novel Red Flags, rebuilt as a standalone twenty-one-map boomer shooter. The book’s characters, places, violence and institutional absurdity become combat spaces, weapons, enemies, bosses and systems.
Open dossier →A complete modern reconstruction of the 1994 cyberpunk nightmare, preserving its oppressive city, strange logic and uncompromising identity on contemporary systems.
Open dossier →A reverse-engineering programme that decodes a 1999 tactical game from player-supplied media, holds its findings to an explicit evidence grade, and now uses an authorized build of the original engine as a behavioural oracle rather than continuing to invent the answers it could measure.
Open dossier →A deterministic conversion pipeline that turns retail 1997 game data into a standalone UZDoom package: the original maps, objects, mission structure and gameplay values are converted programmatically and never redrawn, and the original executable is run under observation as a measuring instrument rather than quoted from memory.
Open dossier →A standalone first-person shooter built as an unmodified-engine package that requires no commercial game data: one production map is integrated, runtime-proven and traversed on foot from the main menu to the exit switch, while twenty-two further maps, eight further weapons and the owner's art lock remain ahead of it.
Open dossier →Software the initiative actually runs: local engines, autonomous operators, governance protocols and internal command layers.
05A local retrieval, provenance, replay and canonical-synthesis system: heterogeneous corpora are acquired under an evidence-based rights engine, indexed for hybrid retrieval, argued over by adversarial agents, judged, and folded back into a canon that every later cycle can retrieve and every later reader can trace.
Open dossier →A local control plane that has evolved from cognitive routing into a governed delivery institution with Human Mode, an Ollama concierge, PostgreSQL operational memory and four provider families.
Open dossier →A machine-session environment that turns the Field Horizon workstation into an instrument: corpus, cycles, engine commands and local inference exposed through a severe operator shell.
Open dossier →A bounded mobility utility for carrying branch state and project assets across machines. The v1.0 handoff exists; this page does not claim daily use without evidence.
Open dossier →Pomegranate Execution Protocol turns the initiative’s doctrine into a portable project constitution: control, plans, tasks, gates, decisions, evidence, sessions and release state.
Open dossier →Design programmes with no repository behind them. Listed separately so nothing here is mistaken for a product.
02A tentacular platform where meaning, intention and consequence become executable, traceable and reversible processes.
Open dossier →The audiovisual branch now includes an operational local music forge feeding DreamWeb material, while the public channel remains an open signal rather than a catalogue with a single explanation.
Open dossier →Four 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.Red Flags: Open the Line and DreamWeb are now public, playable works. Abomination, Rebel Moon Rising and Red Flags 2 keep the reconstruction and production fronts open, and the method they share is written down rather than implied. Field Horizon governs meaning, Pomegranate Command governs delivery, PEP makes that governance transferable, and Hyperstition Ø carries the work into sound and image.
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.
