Playable systems sketch

Squarefold Lab

World seed —
DIMENSION: x · y · t

Timefold Garden

Position1, 1
Timet = 0
Shards0 / 4
Steps0
Recorded historyframe 0 / 0

Move with arrows or WASD. Rewind with Q, replay with E. Moving from the past creates a new branch.

The striped gates are indexed by time phase. Step, wait, or rewind to cross them.

How to play

Walk first. Think dimensionally second.

Shared controls

WASD or arrows walk one square. R resets the active experiment. H toggles route hints.

Timefold

Space waits one time unit. Q/E rewind and replay history. A new move from the past erases the old future and creates a branch.

W-Slices

Z/X move through the fourth spatial coordinate. You can shift only when the same square is open in the neighboring slice.

Plan Chorus

1, 2, or 3 selects a planner. F follows its next move. The routes update from your actual position.

Prototype objective

Collect optional shards and reach the luminous portal. There are no battles; the verbs are walking, waiting, shifting, comparing, and choosing.