Chapel Perilous
A first-person grid dungeon crawler set in Illuminatus!-trilogy conspiracy static.
Pre-release audit Five-role studio audit — the build contract itself was refuted before it was built
PLAY opens the build in a new tab PL. VIII Field Trials · Preview Builds
Edition 2026.08 · Brooklyn, NY
Field Trials
Games in development, running live in your browser.
UNIT RW / 26 / TYPE Preview builds / SCALE 12 in trial
These are games I'm still building. Pick a cartridge below — the current build opens in your browser. No download, no account. Play, and if something breaks or feels off, tell me in the field report under the cabinet. I read every one.
The process behind them is public too — every game's design seed, test suite, and pre-release audit lives in the field-trials repository on GitHub.
PL. VIIIRoster
12 entries —— 
Innsmouth 2000
A Lovecraftian take on the classic 1993 city-builder: zone a rotting coastal town and appease five gods whose wrath is the disasters menu.
Pre-release audit Defects found — 1 blocker, 3 defects, 3 friction, each with a repro
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Stray Squadron
A browser-native rail shooter in the format of SNES-era Star Fox, rebuilt as a roguelite: flat-shaded low-poly ships, branching sector runs, a hub of upgrades between them. Every asset is code-generated. Best with a controller or mouse; every control is rebindable in Options.
Pre-release audit Genre audit: no silent gaps — independent finishedness audit: NEEDS-A-ROUND
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Oddseedz
A cozy, fully code-generated monster-ranching browser toy with 70 Buddies and no death.
Pre-release audit NEEDS-A-ROUND, followed by a documented fix round
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Lines of Advance
A modern strategy game of supply lines and massed attacks. Symmetric armies, deterministic combat, an engine that fights. Inspired by Guy Debord’s Kriegspiel.
Pre-release audit Release audit — all findings verified landed, 156/156 independent re-run
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Capriole
A clockwork goat falls upward. Nine toybox spheres, a carnival scorecard on every death, runs of 15–25 minutes.
Pre-release audit Spawn-safety sweep — 8,000 cases, zero death loops
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Shoeleather
You watch the murder. Then you prove it. A 70s-TV inverted mystery — typed facts, contradiction interrogations, one shot at the gotcha.
Pre-release audit FIX-FIRST — 18 findings, one ship-blocker (the gotcha could be brute-forced; fixed)
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The Jacquard Index
The pattern library of Reedmoor Mill, est. 1889. Nonograms that never ask you to guess — every card proved solvable by deduction alone, one twist per drawer.
Pre-release audit FIX-FIRST — 8 findings; 7 fixed, 1 named omission
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Alkahest
A match-panel machine on an alchemist’s bench. Climb the four acts of the Magnum Opus against rival signatures. Flashes are internally capped; a player-facing intensity setting is coming in a future build.
Pre-release audit FIX-FIRST — 6 findings; 4 fixed, 1 disclosed unfixed
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The Office of the Road
You are the desk the heroes report to. An expedition is issued, the party marches itself, and tarot from the hand is your only intervention.
Pre-release audit Release gate — 9-step run; QA verdict SHIP, 3 disclosed blemishes, in-gate fixes landed
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Popinjay
A single-screen arcade roguelite on Pang's bouncing-balloon core — a 1900s World's Fair sharpshooter, wire-as-wall commitment, hand-tinted poster idiom.
Pre-release audit FIX-FIRST — skeptical pre-release 2026-08-12; 281/281 battery
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Material Breach
You run the dungeon. Adventurers are an occupational incident, filed with a root-cause analysis and a corrective-action owner.
Pre-release audit Release gate — 9-step run 2026-08-18; a save-brick blocker and a phantom notice fix caught and closed in-gate; 205/205
PLAY opens the build in a new tabFIELD REPORT — TELL ME WHAT BROKE
PL. VIIIField notes
50 notes ——The most recent work, then every build's full log in its own drawer.
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§By build 12 builds · 50 notes
ALKAHEST
- 2026-08-29 Update published.
- 2026-08-17 Update published.
- 2026-08-17 Update published.
- 2026-08-16 Update published.
- 2026-08-15 Update published.
- 2026-08-15 Update published.
Chapel Perilous
- 2026-08-29 Update published.
- 2026-08-17 Update published.
- 2026-08-17 Update published.
- 2026-08-16 Update published.
- 2026-08-15 Update published.
- 2026-08-15 Update published.
Innsmouth 2000
- 2026-08-29 Update published.
- 2026-08-17 Update published.
- 2026-08-17 Update published.
- 2026-08-16 Update published.
- 2026-08-15 Update published.
- 2026-08-15 Update published.
Oddseedz
- 2026-08-29 Update published.
- 2026-08-17 Update published.
- 2026-08-17 Update published.
- 2026-08-16 Update published.
- 2026-08-15 Update published.
- 2026-08-15 Update published.
Capriole
- 2026-08-29 Update published.
- 2026-08-17 Update published.
- 2026-08-17 Update published.
- 2026-08-16 Update published.
- 2026-08-15 Playable build posted.
SHOELEATHER
- 2026-08-29 Update published.
- 2026-08-17 Update published.
- 2026-08-17 Update published.
- 2026-08-15 Update published.
- 2026-08-15 Update published.
Stray Squadron
- 2026-08-29 Update published.
- 2026-08-17 Update published.
- 2026-08-16 Update published.
- 2026-08-15 Update published.
- 2026-08-15 Update published.
THE JACQUARD INDEX
- 2026-08-29 Update published.
- 2026-08-17 Update published.
- 2026-08-17 Update published.
- 2026-08-15 Update published.
The Office of the Road
- 2026-08-29 Update published.
- 2026-08-17 Update published.
- 2026-08-16 Update published.
Lines of Advance
- 2026-08-29 Update published.
- 2026-08-17 Playable build posted.
MATERIAL BREACH
- 2026-08-29 Playable build posted.
Popinjay
- 2026-08-29 Playable build posted.
37 more in the workshop.
