Research and development

The laboratory is where metaphor is forced to compile.

The initiative investigates semantic systems, reversible autonomy, software archaeology and the conversion of narrative structures into executable worlds. Some of it now runs. The rest is labelled as research and left that way.

Pomegranate Interactive research sigil
Research axes

Problems worth making difficult.

These axes recur across every project and prevent the studio from becoming a collection of fashionable wrappers.

01

Semantic canon

Retrieval, contradiction, provenance and cumulative world memory.

02

Institutional agents

Governed multi-agent systems with roles, vetoes and shared state.

03

Persistent personhood

Artificial populations with autobiographical, social and cultural memory.

04

Reversible autonomy

Snapshots, budgets, confidence gates, audit trails and replay.

05

Software archaeology

Forensic preservation, format recovery and clean-room specification.

06

Playable doctrine

Narrative systems compiled into levels, mechanics and endings that can be tested.

Current fronts

Maintain the released works. Finish the game already in motion.

Released

And We Burn The Sky · Red Flags: Open the Line · DreamWeb

The released front. Player-reported defects are answered on the published builds, not on a local branch.

In development

Red Flags 2

The game advances place by place, with a documented playable chain and ongoing architecture, enemy and arsenal work.

Systems

Field Horizon

The local semantic engine keeps its own dossier and its own evidence.

lab/topology.map
games ── released
├── AND WE BURN THE SKY ── aerial combat / 12 missions + epilogue
├── RED FLAGS: OPEN THE LINE ── 21 maps / 5 episodes
└── DREAMWEB ── complete reconstruction

games ── in development
└── RED FLAGS 2 ── first-person shooter / campaign in production

method ── written down, not a product
└── RECONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING ── evidence · oracle · replay · certification

systems ── running
└── FIELD HORIZON ── semantic memory

principle: release changes the public record
All dossiers

Inspect the active organs.

The portfolio holds 5 dossiers, sorted by what they actually are. Each one states what exists today and what remains open.

Downloadable artefact DreamWeb // Pomegranate Reconstruction — key art wallpaper, 1672 × 941 PNG Open ↓