A working local engine exploring a persistent digital world through Orb, five UI districts, four fictional residents, 100 dependency-linked milestones across 50 simulated years and scripted local chat.
Immersive world · Living-city simulation · Working local engine · CDS Originals · Working local engine · 2026
Meridian began with one question: what if a digital world did not reset when you left?
A working local engine for an immersive world: cinematic navigation, deterministic city state, localStorage persistence and scripted local chat.
People exploring evolving digital worlds, deterministic simulations, narrative systems and ambient interfaces.
I set out to build a city in a glass case—people, jobs, homes, weather, resources and rules, all running on a clock that keeps moving.
Orb is the window into that world: a charcoal-and-mint experience opening through clear glass onto a bird's-eye city. The working local engine delivers five UI districts, four fictional residents, 100 dependency-linked milestones across 50 simulated years, localStorage persistence and scripted local chat.
The current local engine delivers five UI districts, four fictional residents, 100 dependency-linked milestones across 50 simulated years, localStorage persistence and scripted local chat. Evolving the simulation toward self-replication and an autonomous world is the long-term direction; the build has no external AI/API dependency or external actions and is not a realtime, shared or production world.
Meridian is my long-term exploration of an immersive AI world with enough structure to evolve and, eventually, investigate self-replication as a future capability.
The working local engine connects five UI districts and four fictional residents to 100 dependency-linked milestones across 50 simulated years.
Orb leads the scroll journey through Meridian, keeping the interface restrained while local world state, places and scripted events remain visible underneath.
localStorage persistence carries state across the local engine and gives the wider ambition a dependable system to grow from.