Semantic canon
Retrieval, contradiction, provenance and cumulative world memory.
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.
Research axes
Problems worth making difficult.
These axes recur across every project and prevent the studio from becoming a collection of fashionable wrappers.
Institutional agents
Governed multi-agent systems with roles, vetoes and shared state.
Persistent personhood
Artificial populations with autobiographical, social and cultural memory.
Reversible autonomy
Snapshots, budgets, confidence gates, audit trails and replay.
Software archaeology
Forensic preservation, format recovery and clean-room specification.
Playable doctrine
Narrative systems compiled into levels, mechanics and endings that can be tested.
Research frontier
From semantic memory to governed worlds.
R&D
Now
Hold the two public releases to the standard that let them ship: player-reported defects answered on the published Windows and Linux builds, not on a local branch.
R&D
Next
Carry the Abomination playtest through the human gates that machines are forbidden to sign, and keep its bring-your-own-data boundary intact.
R&D
Then
Carry Rebel Moon Rising past a single calibrated mission and Red Flags 2 past a single production map, and let the shared reconstruction method be judged as a method.
R&D
Later
Only federate the projects if a working system genuinely outgrows itself. Complexity must be earned.
lab/topology.map
games ── released
├── RED FLAGS: OPEN THE LINE ── 21 maps / 5 episodes
└── DREAMWEB ── complete reconstruction
games ── in production / reconstruction
├── ABOMINATION ── software archaeology
├── REBEL MOON RISING ── retail-to-UZDoom parity programme
└── RED FLAGS 2 ── standalone UZDoom production
method ── written down, not a product
└── RECONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING ── evidence · oracle · replay · certification
systems ── running
├── FIELD HORIZON ── semantic memory
├── POMEGRANATE COMMAND ── delivery control plane
├── NOEMA/OS ── machine environment
├── BAM ── state mobility
└── PEP ── executable governance
research ── unimplemented
├── ABRACAS / LEVIATHAN ── causal architecture
└── HYPERSTITION Ø ── transmedia recursion
principle: release changes the public record
├── RED FLAGS: OPEN THE LINE ── 21 maps / 5 episodes
└── DREAMWEB ── complete reconstruction
games ── in production / reconstruction
├── ABOMINATION ── software archaeology
├── REBEL MOON RISING ── retail-to-UZDoom parity programme
└── RED FLAGS 2 ── standalone UZDoom production
method ── written down, not a product
└── RECONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING ── evidence · oracle · replay · certification
systems ── running
├── FIELD HORIZON ── semantic memory
├── POMEGRANATE COMMAND ── delivery control plane
├── NOEMA/OS ── machine environment
├── BAM ── state mobility
└── PEP ── executable governance
research ── unimplemented
├── ABRACAS / LEVIATHAN ── causal architecture
└── HYPERSTITION Ø ── transmedia recursion
principle: release changes the public record
All dossiers
Inspect the active organs.
The portfolio holds 12 dossiers, sorted by what they actually are. Each one carries a verified state and a list of stated limits.
Games and reconstructions
Playable worlds and clean-room recoveries. Each entry states what runs today and what does not.
05Released on itch.io / Windows + LinuxRF-05
Red Flags: Open the Line
Red 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 →Released on itch.io / Windows + LinuxDW-10
DreamWeb: Pomegranate Reconstruction
A complete modern reconstruction of the 1994 cyberpunk nightmare, preserving its oppressive city, strange logic and uncompromising identity on contemporary systems.
Open dossier →Active reconstruction / release-candidate route proposed, not acceptedAB-04
Abomination
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 →Parity programme / one mission converted, calibrated and playableRMR-16
Rebel Moon Rising: Pomegranate Reconstruction
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 →In production / vertical slice physically traversed, art lock openRF2-17
RED FLAGS 2: COLOR OF POMEGRANADE
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 →Operational systems
Software the initiative actually runs: local engines, autonomous operators, governance protocols and internal command layers.
05Source published 2 September 2026 / local-first operationFH-01
Field Horizon
A 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 →0.6.0 — Antigravity / operational memoryPC-11
Pomegranate Command 0.6.0
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 →R0.2 handoff / hardware certification openNO-12
NOEMA/OS
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 →v1.0 handoff / adoption not publicly assertedBAM-13
BAM — Branch and Asset Mobility
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 →0.1.0 packaged / live smoke projectPEP-14
PEP / PEP Forge 0.1.0
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 →Research architectures
Design programmes with no repository behind them. Listed separately so nothing here is mistaken for a product.
02Research architecture concept / no implementationLV-03
Leviathan / Abracas
A tentacular platform where meaning, intention and consequence become executable, traceable and reversible processes.
Open dossier →AudioForge operational / no music releaseHØ-06
Hyperstition Ø
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 →