The Suborned
A 1950s world that discovered atomic power centuries ago.
Eight paintings set the look before any code.
Cream stone, seafoam bands, chrome, a thin line of brass. They are still the reference for street level: concept art first, then build to match.
The capstone mission was designed first.
"The Handover": take Councillor Vale alive at shift handover outside the Civic Records Office.
Five links, and each one leaves a trace that the city follows back.
Three weeks later it is still the reference every generated mission must match, and it's now playable.
The district is one JSON file.
Roads, plots, gates, levels, tram and sky rail, landmarks: harbour-district.plan.json. The CAD sheet is drawn from it, and the checker fails the build on any broken rule.
From the plan to the street, seeded and deterministic.
plan.json
The mission's block: painted, planned, built.
The block is written by bun run block from its sources, pinned by sha256; rule C-0 fails the build if its scale ever changes.
Layouts are measured, not eyeballed.
"The guard comes to visit Inez when she calls him, because you bribed or pressured her, and that's what makes him leave his post." · Sky, 15 Oct
A secret the city generated, and the mission casts.
The Handover names roles, not people. Rule M-2 casts each role from the generated city and pins it by id. Inez's need is her debt (Help clears it); her secret is the affair (Pressure threatens to expose it).
This cast made Inez Fearful, so Help works one step worse: two Helps, $80,000, not $40,000. The city set that price, not a script.
Before: five servers on one door point. After: Inez alone, customers come and go.
New rule P-16: no two drawn people on one place at once. More eyes at the café, so the witness rules had more to do.
A deterministic C# engine: the same orders give the same result.
Hit chances are accumulators, not dice: "hits 3 in 4 · down in 4 s" is a promise the engine keeps.
Visitors from a nearby timeline: sharper, no 1950s tailoring.
No long coats or flowing hems: the silhouette comes from shoulders, packs and props, so it can be animated at 40–60 px tall.
Show the rules in the street, not in text.
The same moment: the Enforcer about to take down the guard. Drag to compare.
bun run budget)One-line prices, icons for numbers, a sentence only when a person speaks.
One ring tells you who will see you before you move.
A kit generated in Blender, headless, at build time.
From one person, to networks, to districts.
Try the camera
Camera rotation and a third-person try-out, parked by Sky until the mechanics settle.
More missions
The mission generator fills templates from the city's own people. Each one must pass the checker the Handover passes.
The campaign
Start with the Fixer alone. Turned people pay in cash, arms and tips; the trail you leave brings the fights.
60 fps on the Air
The reference machine is a 15-inch MacBook Air M4: play zoom, people and simulation in, measured warm.
Thank you.
Questions? Everything here replays from the repo: bun run verify