2026-09-02 — SESSION 6p: the Vault and the Postmaster

The Vault

• A vault out in the basin — a slab face, a heavy round door with a gold wheel, and gold stacked at its feet so you can see it from a distance.
• Walk up and press F. Everything you have stored on the left, everything you are carrying on the right, and a click moves an item either way.
• Sixty places. Anything you leave there is safe.

The Postmaster

• He stands beside where you land. Press F and he has something to say first — click or press F again to skip straight through to the shelf.
• He keeps what you did not pick up. Loot left on the ground used to be deleted when the world moved on; it goes to him now, and you can take it back.
• It is a lost-and-found, not a locker — things come out, they do not go in. That is what the vault is for.

2026-09-02 — SESSION 6o: quieter markers, a mission log, more to fight

The screen stops shouting

• Places are small green dots now, not big white diamonds. The big pulsing marker is reserved for the thing you were actually sent to, in the colour of the contract you are carrying.

A real mission log

• The QUESTS tab is your log. What you are carrying, how far through it you are, who to take it back to, and everything you have finished. It used to be a fixed list that never changed — which is why your missions looked like they never reset.

Three more things out there

• Clingers — small, fast, and they come in numbers.
• Ashborn — heavy, slow, burning, and they hold the yards.
• Hollow Choir — the worst thing walking.
• They appear everywhere at once: in the world, in the Proving Ground line, and on the site's roster. The Proving Ground now builds its line from the enemy table, so anything added shows up there without being added twice.

2026-09-02 — SESSION 6n: you can see the world now

⚠ The basin was unlit, and now it is not

• You could not see the ground, and there were two reasons. The terrain's surfaces were facing downward, so the light never touched them — no amount of brightening could have helped. And the haze reached full strength at eighty-four metres, which was right for a walled yard and meant that in an open world nearly everything you looked at was one flat tone.
• Both are fixed. The land is lit, you can read its slopes, and the haze now fades out at the edge of view instead of two steps in front of you.
• You can see much further — 340 metres instead of 220.

More in the world

• Markers are coloured by what you carry — white for story, orange for a quest, blue for a bounty.
• A bounty post 400 metres out with one broker at it, a desk with papers and a board behind him. Every bounty is his.
• Roads and buildings across the basin, with lit doorways, all fixed in place so what you walked past is still there when you come back.
• Only one story mission is ever offered, and the first one is small.

2026-09-02 — SESSION 6m: story, quests and bounties

• Markers are coloured by what you carry — white for story, orange for a quest, blue for a bounty.
• A bounty post 400 metres out, with one broker at it, a desk with papers, a board behind him and a light you can find at dusk. Every bounty is his.
• Roads, buildings and lit doorways across the whole basin, all of it deterministic so what you walked past is still there when you return.
• Only one story mission is ever offered, and the first is a small one.
• A distant ridge along the horizon so turning sweeps scenery past, and the draw distance went from 220 to 340 metres.

2026-09-02 — SESSION 6m: story, quests and bounties

Three kinds of work, and no more "field ops"

• Twelve story missions, taken in order, each locked behind the last. That chain is the story.
• Fifteen quests — five each from the Quartermaster, the Line Warden and the Surveyor. Only the next one in their chain is ever offered, so finishing one is what makes the next appear.
• Four bounties that never run out. Standing work, always available.
• Every one of them can be taken and finished today.

Pause

• Escape brings up a proper menu — Resume, Settings & controls, Back to main menu — in the same shape as the main one. It also catches alt-tabbing away.

The site says what the game does

• The Story page listed eight story missions and fourteen field ops, most marked not started. It now lists the twelve, the three quest chains and the bounties, and says plainly that they are contracts with the right names and rewards rather than bespoke scripted scenes.

2026-09-02 — SESSION 6l: the stance gallery

A row of figures in the Proving Ground

• Eight stances, side by side, each on its own plinth and each moving. Idle, walk, sprint, jump, crouch, aiming, firing and downed.
• Every one holds a different weapon, so all seven models can be compared in one look — which is the other thing the Proving Ground is for.
• ⚠ They are stances, not animation clips, and the game says so. The Resurgent is a single solid model with no skeleton, so there is nothing to play back. What is on show is built from the same maths the live character uses — the walk bob, the recoil kick, the aim pull — and each figure loops.

The menu stops moving under your cursor

• Hovering a row no longer shifts the buttons. The description line under the menu grew whenever a longer one wrapped to another line, and because the card is centred, growing the bottom pushed every button above it upward. The space is reserved once now, so nothing can move.

2026-09-02 — SESSION 6k: thirteen missions and people to take them from

There are people out there now

• A hub, 240 metres from where you land, with three of them standing in it: the Quartermaster, the Line Warden and the Surveyor. It is always in the same place — a meeting place you cannot find twice is not one.
• Walk up and press F. They tell you what they want, you take the contract, it counts itself while you play, and you bring it back to them to be paid.
• They show a ! when they have something for you, and their names float over them from ninety metres out.

Thirteen missions, and the story is a chain

• Seven field ops and six story missions, taken from the ones the site already publishes rather than invented fresh.
• Story missions are gated behind each other. A Derelict Sky needs First Contact done; A Long Silence needs that; and so on down the line. That is what makes it a story rather than a list.
• Finishing one pays experience and gear, and a story mission pays better.
• What you are carrying is on screen — which one, how far through, and who to take it back to.
• They are on the map too, along with the vendors.

2026-09-02 — SESSION 6j: experience you can see

Everything you kill pays, and you are told

• A small bar appears whenever you earn, shows what you just made, and fades away once you stop. It never sits on screen doing nothing.
• Every kill, every objective and every mission pays experience. It always did — nothing ever said so, and you could rank up mid-fight without noticing.
• Levelling up is an event. A gold ring pulses out from the Resurgent, LEVELED UP lands in gold, and it puts you back to full health.
• Ranks get harder. It used to be a flat hundred points forever.

2026-09-02 — SESSION 6i: seven weapons, a double jump, and a real map

⚠ Shooting works again

• Your gun was doing no damage in the open world, and that was a real bug. The hit test measured a bullet's height above sea level against an enemy's height above its own feet. On flat ground those agree; on a hillside they do not, so an enemy standing on high ground could only be hit by a shot fired from underneath it — and you were standing on the same hill.

The arsenal

• Seven weapons instead of three, and they are the ones the site already lists: the Phung 42 and Willbringer, the Rift Sidearm, and now Kiln, Nullpoint, Tidebreaker and Ashcaller.
• They all look different, and they all shoot differently. Each has its own silhouette, its own colour and its own round — Nullpoint leaves a long violet streak, Ashcaller throws a fat ember, Tidebreaker spits fast and thin.
• The Proving Ground's wall is one of each, all exotic. The duplicate greys are gone.

Movement

• Double jump. Press it again in the air. The numbers are the ones measured for the other project: 1.6 m on the first, 2.4 m with the second.
• The Proving Ground is nearly twice the size, and its course is stepped so the first jump clears the low blocks and the double jump is what gets you up the tall ones.

The map is a map

• It shows the actual ground. It used to be one grey rectangle. It now reads the real terrain and shades it by height, follows you as you walk, and draws a range ring every hundred metres.
• You are on it, and you are labelled. A triangle marked ME that turns with you, and your coordinates underneath.
• So is everything else — every place worth going to by name, loot lying on the ground in its rarity colour, caches, rifts and anything alive.

Smaller things

• The abilities look like abilities: a burst at your feet, a ring thrown outward, a real flash of light in your class's colour, and a harder kick.
• Controls is its own screen now with a Back to menu button, instead of unfolding underneath the menu you were already looking at.
• The orange arrow is gone and the white marker breathes slowly, so it reads as somewhere to go.
• No more shield, and much less health. A shield nothing granted or explained was free hit points; health drops from 400 to about 120, so armour is worth wearing.
• Recreate character wipes everything now, including the run you were in.
• Primary and Class Item swapped places.

2026-09-02 — SESSION 6h: the inventory is a system now

It was a picture of an inventory. Now it is one.

• Armour exists. Helmets, chest pieces, gloves, boots and class items drop, in all four rarities, rolling the six real stats. Before today the only items in the game were the three weapons you could hold.
• Loot goes somewhere. Anything you cannot immediately use lands in a bag of forty cells instead of being thrown away or silently swapped over the gun in your hands.
• You can drag it. Pick anything up from a slot or a cell, carry it, and drop it where you want it — with a mouse or a thumb. Drop it on a slot to equip it, drag it out to put it back.
• A slot only takes what belongs in it, and equipping something swaps the old piece back into your bag rather than deleting it. A misdrag never costs you an item.
• The six stats are real. They are the sum of what you are wearing. They used to be invented from your rank, which is why nothing you ever picked up moved them.
• Power counts your armour, so equipping something changes it while you watch.
• Hover anything to read it — its rarity, its power, its stats or its damage, magazine, range and modifiers.

The character changes with your gear

• The gun in your hands is the gun you are holding. There was one generic gun mesh drawn no matter what you carried. The Phung 42 is long with a scope, the Willbringer is short and heavy with a glowing cell, the sidearm is a stub — and each is tinted by its rarity, so an exotic reads as one from behind.
• Your armour tints the Resurgent. Better chest and helmet pieces show.

2026-09-02 — SESSION 6g: the ground stops following your cursor

The floor stays where it is

• The ground no longer slides around with the camera. What looked like a floor stuck to the screen actually was the sky: the horizon had been baked into the middle of the sky picture, so its lower half panned with your view along with everything else. The sky is sky only now, and everything below the horizon is a flat colour — which cannot move, because a colour has nowhere to move to.

Music

• The in-game track is the one you asked for. It was still playing the old one because the file had not arrived; it is in place now.

2026-09-02 — SESSION 6f: the world has no edge

You can walk forever

• The border is gone. There is no wall around the map any more, because there is no map — the ground is generated around you as you go, and the far parts are thrown away. Walk in any direction for as long as you like.
• And it is not flat. The land rolls: long swells you only notice while walking, and finer breaks so no slope is a clean plane.
• There are places to find. Survey camps, wreck sites, Lurker nests, bulk yards, rifts and warden ground, each with a marker you can see from a long way off, enemies around it and loot on them. The first one is usually a couple of hundred metres out.
• Everything in it is fixed in place. Walk away from a camp and come back and it is the same camp, in the same spot. Nothing is re-rolled behind you.
• You can climb. Rocks, crates and the ground itself are all standable.

The drop, properly this time

• **The mark now falls in from the top of the screen and lands on the wordmark**, and the impact IS the drop — a shockwave, a bloom, the title tearing itself apart, and the ships arriving together.
• The ships wait for it. The sky is empty until the drop, so their arrival actually lands.
• The timing was measured, not guessed. The drop is at 14.62 seconds: the track sits around -27 dB through the build and jumps to -11 between 14.50 and 14.75. It had been firing at 14.0, more than half a second early.

The sky stops making you seasick

• It moves with the camera now instead of against it. The sky was panning at a rate that had nothing to do with the field of view, so it slid past the ground at the wrong speed the whole time you were looking around. It is geometry now: one full turn is exactly one turn of sky.

2026-09-02 — SESSION 6e: the menu breaks on the drop

The music hits and the screen answers it

• At the drop, the title tears itself apart. Fourteen seconds into the menu track the EVENTIDE wordmark goes hard into its own glitch for two and a half seconds, the screen takes a bloom, a wing of ships arrives together, and comets come with them.
• It rides the track, not a stopwatch. It fires off the music's own position, so it lands on the beat however long you have been sitting on the menu, and it comes round again every time the track loops.
• If the music is off, nothing happens at all — the menu behaves exactly as it did before.

The HUD

• The compass is shorter and smaller. It was two thirds of the screen wide.
• Network, ping, frame rate and your rank are all bigger, and read as one instrument cluster instead of fine print.

2026-09-02 — SESSION 6d: the Proving Ground is open

The Proving Ground is unlocked, and there is something behind it

• Every enemy is in there and none of them attack. A Skitterling, another, a Lurker and a Rift Warden, standing still. You can shoot them; they never shoot back.
• A wall of every gun. Six plinths — each weapon at exotic and the two field weapons again at common, so you can feel what a rarity roll is worth. Walk up to one and it is yours.
• A damage dummy that counts. It shows sustained damage over a rolling three seconds, not a lucky burst, and it refills rather than dying so a measurement is never cut short.
• A movement course — four rising platforms, a gap to clear, and a landing.
• No timer, no quota, and you cannot die in there.

You can stand on things now

• This is new to the whole game, not just that room. Until today the floor was a single flat plane: you could jump, but only ever land where you started, and walking onto anything was impossible because the block that would hold you up also stopped you reaching it.

Music

• A new track on the main menu — Andy Bird, World On Fire.

2026-09-02 — SESSION 6c: the story is on the site

There is a Story page

• The whole fiction is on the site now, and until today none of it was. What EVENTIDE is, why you come back, what the Quiet is, and why the yards and the gas matter.
• Season 1: Tides Rise — all eight story missions, in order.
• Fourteen field ops, each teaching one thing.
• Rank, power and the six stats, and why rank and power are separate.
• Both cutscenes, described.
• ⚠ Every entry says what state it is in. One field op is playable and both cutscenes are. Everything else is designed and not built, and says so.

In the game

• Recreate character. A new row on the menu: it wipes the save and starts you over from the beginning — a new Resurgent and the opening cutscene again. It asks once before it does it, because there is no undo. **Your volume and motion settings are not touched** — those are yours, not your character's.

2026-09-02 — SESSION 6b: choose who you are, and the opening

Choose your Resurgent

• A character select, before your first drop. Knightraven, Dreadwarden and Sunreaver, each with their epithet, their damage type, their ability and their own spread across the six stats. You name them, 2 to 18 characters, and the game remembers.
• The class is not a colour. Each has a real ability on E, and a button on a phone. CONDUIT throws a line of current that jumps between everything standing near it. FOLD folds the space around a point and everything nearby arrives at it. IGNITION lights the ground, and what crosses it keeps burning.

The opening cutscene, and one more you will find later

• "The Coming Back" plays before your first drop: a wreck field, a hauler on its side still lit, and a long slow push toward the containment pod until it takes the frame.
• "The Quiet" is out there, once. It is the only time it is ever shown.
• Both skip on any key or a tap. A cutscene you cannot skip is one people resent the second time.

The map stops taking you somewhere

• Finishing does not move you any more. It used to open the lootbox and then, two seconds later, rebuild the world and drop you at the next zone's spawn. Now you get a MISSION COMPLETE and you stay exactly where you are.
• And the cache is there from the moment you land — it used to appear only after every kill count and beacon count ahead of it had been paid. Going to find it is the point.
• Travelling on is yours to press, when you want it.

There is a sky

• There was no sky at all. Look up and the whole top of the world was one flat colour. Now every destination has its own: stars, nebulae, a cool band low down, and something big and far away with city lights on its night side.
• It moves as you look, and it stops at eye level so the ground still ends in haze rather than in space.

Two things that were plainly wrong

• The site no longer makes a noise when you open it. Loading the page played the drop-in sting, before anything had been clicked and while the game was not even on screen. The game is silent now until you open it.
• You can type any letter into your Resurgent's name. W, A, S, D, E, R and T were being swallowed by the game's controls underneath the box, so several letters simply would not appear — and the movement keys stayed held down afterwards, which could start you walking the moment you dropped in.

It hits harder

• Damage numbers actually read now. They existed, but at 15px, flat, and gone in under a second. They pop on the frame they land, scale with how big the hit was, carry an outline so they never vanish into a pale wall, and stay up long enough to be read.
• Killing something comes apart. A death used to look identical to a graze: one small puff. Now the burst scales with what died, throws a second paler one higher, and knocks the camera.

Smaller things you asked for

• The site has its own icon at last — the eclipse mark, in the browser tab. The tab, the hero and the game's menu all show the same mark now. It is a bolder cut than the one on the page, because at sixteen pixels the hairline orbit and the fine star simply disappear.
• And the tab icon had never actually worked. It was a black square, and it had been one the whole time — the colours inside it were escaped twice over, so the browser was handed something that was not a colour at all and fell back to black on black. That is why there was never an icon to see.
• Fullscreen fills the screen. There was a black bar along the bottom: the picture was locked to 16:9 and pinned to the top, so on any display that is not exactly 16:9 the whole of the spare height landed underneath it. The world now fills the display and the interface keeps its own 16:9 area inside.
• The planet on the menu has a round edge again. Its atmosphere halo was being cut into a square by a bitmap too small to hold it, so the top-right of the disc had a corner on it. The planet itself was never the problem and has not moved.
• Shooting stars and comets cross the menu now, rarely, the way the ships do.
• Fullscreen no longer leaves a black bar along the bottom. The picture was pinned to the top, so on any screen taller than 16:9 all the spare height landed underneath it. It is centred now.
• Music starts at 4% and the slider moves in steps of 2, so a quiet setting is actually reachable.
• You can look all the way up and all the way down (from earlier today).

2026-09-02 — SESSION 6: you can look up

Look all the way up, and all the way down

• You can now aim straight up and straight down. The view used to stop 66° below the horizon and only 40° above it, so there was a large part of the sky you simply could not point at.
• **The camera was cut off twice over, and the second cause was the bigger one.** Besides the limit itself, the camera was being pointed at a target that was not a true direction, which compressed it further: at the old lower limit it delivered 42° of the 66 it was allowed. **The camera and the crosshair had been disagreeing with each other**, and now they do not.
• The camera no longer passes through your own Resurgent when you crane right up. At the very top of the range it sits low and behind you rather than directly overhead — a camera cannot be above you and outside you at once — but the aim itself reaches the whole range, so the shot goes where the reticle is.

2026-09-02 — SESSION 5: music, and the UIs stop sitting on each other

The game has music now

• EVENTIDE's own score is in it, cut in two. The first minute is the menu; the rest drops in with you, starting quiet and building into the loudest part of the piece.
• The cut is at 59.54 seconds and it was measured, not guessed. The track changes section there — the music actually falls to near silence for a beat — so nothing is chopped mid-phrase. Half of it exactly would have cut a note.
• It is deliberately not loud. Both halves come down the same five decibels, so the quiet menu and the loud climax stay as far apart as they were written.
• A slider, not an on/off switch, in the menu and on the bar under the picture. Drag it to nothing and there is no music. It remembers where you left it.
• Nothing is downloaded until you open the game. A visitor who only reads the site never fetches a byte of it.

Two UIs stop sharing a pixel

• The changelog is opaque. You could read the main menu straight through it.
• And the cause was not the transparency. The site's top navigation bar was styled with a rule that matched every menu on the page, so the game's own menu had quietly been given the site nav's stacking order — 60 against the changelog's 6 — plus a live blur running over the game the whole time the menu was up. That was both halves of "it really lags" and "I can see the buttons through it". Scoped to the site's bar, where it belongs.
• Nothing is drawn behind the changelog any more. The scene used to keep animating at full rate under an opaque panel.

On a phone

• The TERMINAL button moved to the middle, just above the health bar.
• You can switch weapons with a thumb. There was no way to at all: the gun you were not holding was a smear about four pixels tall, and swapping was a key. The unequipped weapon is now the bigger slot, with its name and ammo, and tapping it swaps.
• A button you plant your thumb on no longer steals the stick. Touch a HUD button and it only counts if you lift quickly without moving; drag off it and you were only ever looking around. That is what makes the bottom-centre position safe.
• The bar under the picture stays one row, so the game keeps the height.

Removed

• Aim assist is gone, at the player's request. Aiming is yours again. The site's Systems page dropped the row in the same change, because a list that says something works when it has been deleted is worse than no list.

Honest bookkeeping

• **The "how many are live" line on the Systems page is now counted from the table itself**, not typed beside it. It had drifted, and said eight when the table held thirteen.

2026-09-01 — SESSION 4: a changelog, and a plan to 1.0

Fixed

• A family of freezes is gone. After finishing a zone's last objective, the game could freeze if you then destroyed a rift or vented a tank — the same shape of fault as the beacon one, found by sweeping for it rather than by hitting it.
• The game no longer freezes when you reach a survey beacon. Surveying one called a function that was never written, which threw and killed the render loop outright. Beacons now pay out properly.

The terminal, and a nav you can actually reach

• The GEAR button is now the TERMINAL button, because it opens six tabs — inventory, skills, map and quests among them — and naming it after one of them undersold it.
• It moved to just above the weapon card on the left, and got bigger.
• It glows until you open it once, then never again. An important control nobody finds is a broken control; a permanent attractor is noise.
• The nav wraps on a phone instead of scrolling. All eight pages were there, but at 390px only two were on screen and the rest sat behind a hidden horizontal scroll — which is why the Systems page looked missing.

Fullscreen on a phone

• The bar was rearranged: Fullscreen now sits at its left where the FIELD BUILD label used to be, and that label moved to the top-left corner of the picture as small text — pinned to the screen, so it stays there through a rotation and in fullscreen.
• A Fullscreen button, next to Sound. On a handset it gives the game every pixel the page controls — measured at **+118px of height, 43% more playable area** on an iPhone-sized screen.
• It works on iPhone Safari, which has no Fullscreen API at all. The button never depends on that API: it always switches to an immersive CSS mode, and asks the browser for real fullscreen only as a bonus where that exists.
• The panel now uses the dynamic viewport height, so it grows as Safari's address bar collapses instead of permanently reserving room for it.
• Add to Home Screen now runs the site chromeless, which is the only true fullscreen iOS offers.

Nothing is hidden any more

• A Systems page listing all eighteen systems the game has — rendering, controls, world, combat, gear and progression — each with what it actually does and how far it has got. Eight are live today.
• Every redaction is gone. The site had █-blocked an enemy, a weapon's origin, an exotic, a raid and a drop table. All of it is written out now: the hidden enemy was the Rift Warden, and the exotic is the Long Silence, which does not reload and goes quiet away from a rift.
• The coy headings went with them — "as far as we will say" is now "Everything that is out there".
• The nav carries the new page without hiding anything, with slack measured in.

• This changelog, reachable from the CHANGELOG button. It covers everything built for this site and game, including the era before version control existed.
• The site will stop being mysterious. Every enemy, weapon and system is going onto it in full — the honest status pills stay, because showing everything is not the same as claiming everything works.
• A prioritised road to 1.0 written down, so the order is decided once rather than re-argued every session.

2026-09-01 — SESSION 3: mobile, the mark, and a real main menu

The game now opens like a game

• An attract screen — the full EVENTIDE mark over a live space scene, and one line telling you to press or tap. It cross-fades into the menu.
• A real main menu with the mark, the glitch wordmark, and rows that each do something. Proving Ground is shown LOCKED because it genuinely is not in the field build.
• The title glitches on the shader's own rhythm — a long quiet, a short burst — rather than sitting at a permanent zero.
• An attract scene behind both: drifting stars, a planet with a lit limb and orange night-side city lights, and ships crossing, firing, burning and falling.
• The in-game HUD no longer bleeds through the menu. While a menu is up the 3D scene is not rendered at all, so the menu costs less than the game.

The eclipse mark exists, and the site finally uses it

• Drawn from measurements off two screenshots of the real build, not from a description. It sits above the hero wordmark and on the game's menus.

Mobile — the whole tier

• The touch sticks work at the screen edge. Touches were mapped with a stretch while the HUD is drawn with a letterbox, so on a phone the ADS zone sat out in the black bar and the visible button did nothing.
• The blur is fixed, in both canvases. The 3D view and the HUD overlay were both sized in CSS pixels, so a phone rendered at a third of its resolution and blew the result up.
• A distortion nobody had reported: the resolution floor was applied to each axis separately, so the world was rendered at one shape and stretched into another — 86% skew in portrait.
• Aim assist on touch, while firing only. It steers aim inside a narrow cone and never widens the hit box, bends a bullet or fires for you. *(Removed the next day — see Session 5. It was asked for, built, played, and not wanted.)*
• ADS zoom is gentler on touch — 53° instead of 42°. Desktop is untouched.
• The GEAR button moved. It had been drawn underneath three other readouts.
• The gear tabs respond to a finger. They had been mouse-only.

The website

• One bad CSS selector was killing every animation on the page. A route href reached querySelector, threw, and took the motion toggle, the star field and the scroll reveals down with it.
• The nav never fitted at any width and was hiding a whole page behind an invisible scroll.

2026-09-01 — SESSION 2: the project got its own documents and a home

• Everything about this project had been written into the wrong repository. Moved here, in full, and a gate added there so it cannot happen silently again.
• The rules moved to the project root so they are actually loaded, and the README was folded in and deleted — a second document nothing reads only drifts.
• The project went onto GitHub, private, and the site began deploying automatically from main.

2026-09-01 — SESSION 1: the site and the field build

*Reconstructed from the project's own notes. This work predates version control,

so there are no commits behind it — the record is the documentation written at

the time.*

The browser game, from nothing

• A third-person looter shooter in WebGL2, no libraries and no model files — every mesh is generated at boot.
• Four zones: Frontier Basin, The Sink, Ashfall Yard, The Aperture.
• Three enemies: Skitterling, Lurker, Rift Warden. Rifts that open and must be closed.
• Loot at four rarity grades with rolled modifiers, and a power figure.
• A six-tab gear screen, twin-stick touch controls, ADS on the right mouse button, adaptive resolution and a live FPS readout.

Bugs found by playing it, and what caused them

• The guns could not hit anything. The ray started at the player's chest and passed over every enemy for its whole length, and it was cast from the player while the crosshair belongs to the camera behind.
• The first objective could never complete — one line emptied the weapon list right after handing you a weapon, which also meant no enemy ever spawned.
• The compass drew nothing. It asked whether a floating-point bearing was exactly a multiple of 45.
• 20 fps was fill rate — 3.1 million pixels each running a light loop, behind a full-screen blur nobody could see through.
• The page was 469px wide on a 375px screen.
• Mobile landscape was unusable — the start button sat off-screen.
• The scroll reveals never appeared, and the entire nav was deleted by accident and went unnoticed for two rounds.

The site

• Built in first-party voice, from the real build's own data: the colour tokens are lifted from EVENTIDE's shaders, and the wordmark is its title shader rebuilt for a browser.
• Grew from a landing page into a hash-routed seven-page site.