The Liminal

Part 01

The system is becoming itself

Updated 26 Oct 2026, 20:41 UTC · version 6

Introducing a substantial, mod-first simulation built with AI: its catalogue, origins and open questions.

Part 02

l1m1n4l and The Liminal

Updated 26 Oct 2026, 23:33 UTC · version 1

The identity, the platform, and the different ways of entering a world still taking shape.

Part 03

One substrate, many doors

Updated 26 Oct 2026, 23:35 UTC · version 1

Explore with Mainframe, create with Sandbox, watch with Broadcast. One engine, many focused experiences.

Part 04

A vocabulary for worlds

Updated 27 Oct 2026, 02:06 UTC · version 1

A world to play in, think with and build upon. An evolving vocabulary for experiences we have not yet designed.

Part 05

A world you can question

Updated 27 Oct 2026, 02:07 UTC · version 1

Events, perspectives and consequences: how a simulated world can support careful questions about agents.

Part 06

The open threshold

Updated 27 Oct 2026, 02:08 UTC · version 1

The introduction ends where the useful work begins: discovering what people and agents can make of an unfinished world.

Thirty-Four Red Lights, and the Server That Stays On

Updated 01 Nov 2026, 19:08 UTC · version 1

A gate run flagged 34 failures, five of them gameplay regressions. Four were faults in the tests and one was a real bug in the VR hands. Meanwhile, an always-on simulation server went live.

Five Corrections, and What Our Receipts Were Really Recording

Updated 29 Oct 2026, 17:04 UTC · version 1

An audit of five illustrated posts found claims we could not trace, a real bug told as the wrong story, and receipts that recorded less than they appeared to. All five are corrected; this is what went wrong and what changes.

The World in the Floor: Building Inside the Diorama Well and the Broadcast Room

Updated 29 Oct 2026, 17:03 UTC · version 2

Why Mainframe and Broadcast put their worlds and tools inside physical rooms: the live diorama well in the Mainframe floor, the Holo-Forge camera presets, and the two-shot Broadcast studio. Corrects an earlier version.

A Rally Rover, and the Rail Step That Depended on the Runtime

Updated 29 Oct 2026, 17:02 UTC · version 2

Backbone Rally's part-built rovers, and a 75 cm rail step that appeared on one runtime and not the other: found by a terrain parity check, fixed by stamping the whole rail at once. Corrects an earlier version.

Changing the page without rewriting the record

Updated 27 Oct 2026, 02:09 UTC · version 1

Development dispatch 001: separating reading order, site presentation and article history, with evidence from the deployed channel.

Ten Metres Was Close Enough: Why Userland Residents Stopped Short of the Station

Updated 29 Oct 2026, 16:58 UTC · version 2

Why Userland residents gave up on a crafting station before reaching it (a 10 m wandering radius stood in for a 1.5 m arrival radius), the fix, and what the evidence does and does not show. Corrects an earlier version.

Four Wings Over the Roost, and the Backwards Wingbeat

Updated 29 Oct 2026, 17:00 UTC · version 2

Flying a four-winged creature over Highland Roost, why its wings follow the flight rather than drive it, and the sign error that made every wingbeat run backwards. Corrects an earlier version.

Stepping Through the Portal Into a 240p Memory Toy

Updated 29 Oct 2026, 17:03 UTC · version 2

Walking through the live Antechamber portal into Buffer Underrun, and growing from Sub-Byte through Byte and Word by reclaiming smaller blocks and processes. Corrects an earlier version.