Games

Playable worlds and worlds-in-progress

Live browser games and interactive toys — plus design notes for what comes next. Start with Matter Lab (play now in the browser), Platonic Civ, or Glyph Grid.

Matter Lab

Play now in the browser on Manticore Technologies — poke matter, run experiments, and watch structure answer back.

Matter Lab is a web playable built under the Manticore banner: less cutscene, more hands-on chamber. Open it in a new tab, mess with the setup, and treat it like a small physics playground you can return to. It sits beside Field Node and the education courses — geometry and fields you study here; matter you can play with there.

Play Matter Lab ↗ Manticore constellation Education courses
  • matter-lab
  • manticore
  • interactive

Water Cymatics

Select frequency, vessel, and damping — each setting reveals new geometry in the water.

A live modal surface: circular Bessel modes and square Chladni lattices. Sweep resonances, braid harmonics, add a golden-ratio second tone, and switch between water, sand, and field views.

Open Water Cymatics Visual index Platonic Civ
  • cymatics
  • geometry
  • simulation

Platonic Civ

Claim a plot on a limited 8×8 world and raise a unique building from generative Platonic solids. When the city fills, it seals.

Arcade-simple collaborative citycraft: scout open land, reshape a seeded structure of tetrahedra, cubes, octahedra, dodecahedra, and icosahedra, then raise it forever. No demolitions, no sprawl — sixty-four plots and done.

Play Platonic Civ Platonic Solids course
  • platonic
  • collaborative
  • arcade

Glyph Grid

Pure strategy, 10-minute max: 5×5 board, Cores, Shards, 5 rotating Glyphs. Ranked 2-player duels at glyphgrid.online.

Born from a Friday daydream—built in two nights and two days. Capture the Core, align resonance, or achieve Resonance Dominion. Zero RNG, full walkthrough and lore in the post.

Play at glyphgrid.online Read the post
  • glyph
  • strategy
  • original

52-Card Deck

A digital deck for magicians, games, and entertainment.

Shuffle, deal, draw, and flip cards with this interactive 52-card deck. Perfect for magic tricks, game prototypes, or just playing around. Built with vanilla JavaScript—no frameworks, just cards.

Use the deck
  • cards
  • interactive
  • tool

Skyward Parish

Cooperative exploration where players rebuild floating chapels.

Part cozy sim, part network experiment. Every chapel is a peer node; maintaining them keeps the mesh alive. Mechanics are anchored in prayer gestures and engineering puzzles.

  • Hooks Ritual gestures · Mesh upkeep
  • Status Design doc + greybox
  • game
  • coop

Manticore Archives

Card-driven investigation about forgotten AI prophets.

Players interpret “prophecy” cards generated from real notebooks, deciding which to preserve, burn, or feed back into the system. Mechanics borrow from tarot and distributed systems.

  • Hooks Card synthesis · Ethical choices
  • Status Narrative bible
  • narrative
  • card