VOID HORIZON

CHILDREN OF THE ARK · a sci-fi RPG

PRISM CAST The First Portal — rebuilt characters, a mech and war vehicles, rendered off-screen in-engine.

In the far future, the Ark ships carry the last of humanity — and more — across a dying universe. Immortals awakened from cryogenic slumber explore lost worlds, wield reality-altering powers, and shape the fate of civilizations.

Steam Early Access · December 1 target

We are targeting December 1, 2026 or earlier, with co-op at launch. The priority is a complete playable loop, reliable saves and reconnects, and quality across the selected launch content. Broader expansion follows.

October: complete the co-op loop. November: test installed Steam clients. Release by December 1 only after launch quality and reliability checks pass. — Development roadmap, October 1. This is our release target; the build still has required checks and fixes ahead.

Pipeline status

What is playable, in development and planned.

▶Playable nowsee the full list ◷In developmentsee the full list ◇On the horizonsee the full list

Full build log → Dev blog → Where the game is at →

PRISM ROLLOUT · 22 SEP 2026 → 27 SEP 2026

The cast is back — rebuilt through the Prism pipeline.

Every character, mech, ship and vehicle is being rebuilt from its locked concept: a Prism model, quarantined and reviewed, attached to its class substrate (the golden rig for humanoids, a skeletal frame for mechs, a mechanism rig for ships and vehicles), animated, gated, then wired LIVE into the game. The golden-era character bodies are retired. The Android King stays a separate hand-built asset.

376Prism builds rigged or wired

319LIVE in the game runtime

374playable in your browser (all but the hand-built King lineage)

122equipment items downloaded, awaiting rigging

By class — counts read from the asset pipeline on 27 SEP 2026
class	subjects	Prism build	LIVE
humanoids	279	278	256
mechs	27	26	10
power armor	5	5	2
walkers	5	2	2
creatures	2	1	1
ships	78	57	41
vehicles	9	7	7
equipment	122	0	0

PLAY IT Open the Prism cast live — every build, animated in the browser.

Android King · clean rebuild in progress

MODEL WITHDRAWN

The former 112 MB gallery build and its derived variants are unavailable. The authored concept, clean skeletal core, motion requirements, and separable authored underbody remain as rebuild inputs.

No model request is issued from this card. Animation controls return after the clean replacement passes component, rig, motion-snapshot, full-PBR, Godot, compression, and publication gates.

Studies & Labs — explore the work

Dev blog — the development timeline

A dated timeline of the build, newest first — the historical entries are drawn from real branch merges, each carrying that era's renders. Tap a post to open its full write-up and every still (rendered in the same engine the game runs); tap any image to zoom to full-res. The complete per-model roster is browsable in the archive at the bottom of the page.

Aug 24NEW

Ground & air vehicle combat + drivable surfaces

The war front opened up. You now drive a Warhound war-machine across a 480 m ruined frontline, trade fire beside forged bunkers, and fight forged flying power-armor troopers that strafe the deck from the star field. Three distinct war regions (Hollow Deep crags, the Verdant Line, the Siege Line) plus airless Lunar and Asteroid surfaces you cross in a rover — all live, all reachable from the menu.

A Warhound war machine on the Siege Line — ruined bunkers, targeting rings and forged war-debris across a 480 m frontline — The Siege Line — drive a Warhound across a 480 m ruined frontline

The Warhound trading fire beside a ruined bunker as flying power-armor troopers close in — Vehicle combat — the Warhound under fire beside forged ruins

A forged flying power-armor trooper over the battlefield under a star field — the neural-forged air unit — Flying power armor — forged air troopers that strafe the deck

A flying power-armor trooper on approach, a planet hanging in the star field beyond — Air support over the frontline, a planet on the horizon

A war machine in Hollow Deep — a rocky crag region under a dusk sky with a mountain ridgeline — Hollow Deep — a crag region with an elevation ridgeline

A war machine on the Verdant Line — pine cover scattered across a forested frontline — Verdant Line — pine cover on a forested frontline

A drivable rover on an airless lunar surface with forged structures — Lunar surface — drive a rover across airless regolith

A drivable rover on a barren asteroid surface in vacuum — Asteroid field — a drivable rover in vacuum

The Prism cast — live in your browser

Every Prism build — humanoids on the golden rig, mechs on their skeletal frames, power armor, walkers, ships and vehicles — plays live from its own compressed glb. No video: drag to orbit, pick a clip (idle / walk / aim on the bodies, mechanism clips on the machines).

The Prism cast at the First Portal — humanoids, a mech and war vehicles before the gate

▶ Open the Prism cast — every build, live

Rigging is a technique choice, and hard-surface mechs are unforgiving: smooth auto-weights can blend vertices across plate seams and shear rigid armor, while a clean DEF-* biped with a rigid (nearest-bone) skin keeps each plate welded to one bone, though triangles spanning bones can still stretch. The rigging bake-off compares the repaired static source, component-shell baseline, Blender Rigify, and the pending offline UniRig attempt on the same repaired 745 battle mech. Surface-invalid DEF and rigid-leg exports remain only in repository evidence. The rigid-seam ownership algorithm was retired after it explosively separated armour islands in Walk and Run.

The Prism cast — one of every faction, plus ships and vehicles

Off-screen renders of the current Prism builds through the same model-viewer path the live cast page uses. Tap any to zoom.

Aethel Med aethelArohanui 'Ara' Te Kohure aotearoaElara Thorne arcaneCommander Vanya 'The Shift' councilArchivist Alan-T datasphereCEO Harrison Allen diegoAstrogator freespaceArmada Admiral Septima Thorne gate-guardiansArk Scholar Kim Da Hyun hallyuBelle 'Lucky' Mayfield iron-trailAurelia outer-rimArchivist Daisy 'Gear-Foot' peckA02 pre-stasisAqua-Prima proto-sentienceCassian raiderThe Herald of the Hollow Wake shadowAriel Sorin unalignedArk Scholar Aotearoa verdantKaelen-Xel xelomiteCyber Baron Rustclad Thorne datasphereAegis Warframe councilBreach-Tick shadowAegis councilAurora verdantBehemoth raiderBrood xelomiteBulwark freespaceContinuum datasphereC2 Battlewagon unalignedDust Runner freespaceGoliath councilIronclad Rig raider

The galaxy, taking shape

two capital ships trading energy fire — Ship combat — capital ships trade beam & torpedo fire

cryo bay interior with PBR decks, sleep pods and a planet through the glazing — Living worlds — PBR decks and walls, lit machinery, planets through the glazing

the live on-foot walk — a forged body standing on a lit hangar deck beside a parked craft — On-foot exploration — the live walk, your forged body, vehicles on the pad

The galaxy — 13 star systems, one map

Every faction seated in a canon star system — Council at Sol behind the Gap and Radiance, FreeSpace on the frontier, the new Reaches (Datasphere, Verdant, Peck) in deep space, the roaming Shadow Armada, and Diego Station the neutral crossroads where everyone trades. Populated live in-engine (galaxy_map.gd) with per-faction reputation.

Illustrated map of the Void Horizon galaxy — Council core at Sol behind the Gap and Radiance, FreeSpace frontier, the Reaches, Diego Station, the drifting Ark, and the looming Shadow Armada — THE GALAXY 13 star systems, every faction seated — Council at Sol, FreeSpace’s frontier, the new Reaches, Diego the neutral hub, and the Shadow Armada closing in

Archive — browse every forged model

The full forged catalog — the live model roster, every warship & gear piece, the authored location scenes, and the procedural biomes (browse them all)

Every forged model — the full neural-forge roster

The entire forged cast — characters, ships, gear, and surface vehicles — each rendered live in-engine (front / three-quarter / side) with the anti-aliased pipeline. Click any model to zoom to full-res.

The full forged catalog — every model, browsable

The complete per-model roster — every forged warship and gear piece, the authored location scenes, the procedural biomes and deep-space backdrops. These are exhaustive catalogs rather than dated events; the dated development timeline (with each era's renders) is the Dev blog at the top of the page. Tap any to zoom.

TRELLIS models — the forged fleet (78 ships · 62 shown)

Apotheosis — TRELLIS.2 model render — Apotheosis

Arbiter — TRELLIS.2 model render — Arbiter

Aurora — TRELLIS.2 model render — Aurora

Beacon — TRELLIS.2 model render — Beacon

Behemoth — TRELLIS.2 model render — Behemoth

Bulwark — TRELLIS.2 model render — Bulwark

Cathedral — TRELLIS.2 model render — Cathedral

Cinder — TRELLIS.2 model render — Cinder

Cipher — TRELLIS.2 model render — Cipher

Clipper — TRELLIS.2 model render — Clipper

Continuum — TRELLIS.2 model render — Continuum

Devourer — TRELLIS.2 model render — Devourer

Empyrean — TRELLIS.2 model render — Empyrean

Eternity — TRELLIS.2 model render — Eternity

Faraway — TRELLIS.2 model render — Faraway

Foundry — TRELLIS.2 model render — Foundry

Frontier — TRELLIS.2 model render — Frontier

Genesis — TRELLIS.2 model render — Genesis

Gloaming — TRELLIS.2 model render — Gloaming

Guardian — TRELLIS.2 model render — Guardian

Halcyon — TRELLIS.2 model render — Halcyon

Hivemind — TRELLIS.2 model render — Hivemind

Lattice — TRELLIS.2 model render — Lattice

Leviathan — TRELLIS.2 model render — Leviathan

Lictor — TRELLIS.2 model render — Lictor

Magistrate — TRELLIS.2 model render — Magistrate

Meridian — TRELLIS.2 model render — Meridian

Monolith — TRELLIS.2 model render — Monolith

Obelisk — TRELLIS.2 model render — Obelisk

Odyssey — TRELLIS.2 model render — Odyssey

Praetor — TRELLIS.2 model render — Praetor

Prospect — TRELLIS.2 model render — Prospect

Radiant — TRELLIS.2 model render — Radiant

Reaver — TRELLIS.2 model render — Reaver

Scythe — TRELLIS.2 model render — Scythe

Sentinel — TRELLIS.2 model render — Sentinel

Seraph — TRELLIS.2 model render — Seraph

Singularity — TRELLIS.2 model render — Singularity

Titanhold — TRELLIS.2 model render — Titanhold

Tribune — TRELLIS.2 model render — Tribune

Warden — TRELLIS.2 model render — Warden

Wayfarer — TRELLIS.2 model render — Wayfarer

Worldeater — TRELLIS.2 model render — Worldeater

Xelomite Dread — TRELLIS.2 model render — Xelomite Dread

TRELLIS models — the armory (34 gear pieces)

Angel Plate — TRELLIS.2 model render — Angel Plate

Bio Symbiote — TRELLIS.2 model render — Bio Symbiote

Cloak Emitter — TRELLIS.2 model render — Cloak Emitter

Combat Shield — TRELLIS.2 model render — Combat Shield

Cronium Core — TRELLIS.2 model render — Cronium Core

Data Spike — TRELLIS.2 model render — Data Spike

Energy Blade — TRELLIS.2 model render — Energy Blade

Globals Device — TRELLIS.2 model render — Globals Device

Grapple Launcher — TRELLIS.2 model render — Grapple Launcher

Grav Harness — TRELLIS.2 model render — Grav Harness

Hyperdrive Module — TRELLIS.2 model render — Hyperdrive Module

Jump Boots — TRELLIS.2 model render — Jump Boots

Kinetic Carbine — TRELLIS.2 model render — Kinetic Carbine

Kinetic Sidearm — TRELLIS.2 model render — Kinetic Sidearm

Laser Pistol — TRELLIS.2 model render — Laser Pistol

Laser Rifle — TRELLIS.2 model render — Laser Rifle

Mono Edge — TRELLIS.2 model render — Mono Edge

Navcomp — TRELLIS.2 model render — Navcomp

Neural Jack — TRELLIS.2 model render — Neural Jack

Plasma Repeater — TRELLIS.2 model render — Plasma Repeater

Plated Vest — TRELLIS.2 model render — Plated Vest

Radiance Reliquary — TRELLIS.2 model render — Radiance Reliquary

Railgun — TRELLIS.2 model render — Railgun

Recon Weave — TRELLIS.2 model render — Recon Weave

Rocket Pack — TRELLIS.2 model render — Rocket Pack

Sensor Suite — TRELLIS.2 model render — Sensor Suite

Service Blade — TRELLIS.2 model render — Service Blade

Shield Generator — TRELLIS.2 model render — Shield Generator

Siege Plate — TRELLIS.2 model render — Siege Plate

Stim Injector — TRELLIS.2 model render — Stim Injector

Targeting Visor — TRELLIS.2 model render — Targeting Visor

Thermal Grenade — TRELLIS.2 model render — Thermal Grenade

War Maul — TRELLIS.2 model render — War Maul

Warp Forged Armor — TRELLIS.2 model render — Warp Forged Armor

Locations — in-engine authored scenes (12, live campaign path)

Each rendered by mounting the REAL location through the campaign walk (onfoot._build_bay: EnvBuilder + biome + TownKit + faction dressing) — not a generic tinted establishing shot. 5 of the 12 (Ember Wastes, Verdant Dock, Verdant Grove, Peck Foundry-Decks, Diego Sector) had no scene authoring at all and were silently falling back to the same generic hangar box; those got real enclosure/biome/palette entries in scene_manifest.json (task-370).

Cryo Bay Seven — enclosed ark-cryo hangar, cryo pods and pillars under a cyan ceiling — Cryo Bay Seven

Ember Wastes — open volcanic wasteland under a crimson sky, no ceiling — Ember Wastes

Verdant Dock — open green dockside plaza with distant mountains — Verdant Dock

Verdant Grove — open foliage-dense canopy deck with a still pond — Verdant Grove

Peck Foundry-Decks — tan industrial hangar with windows onto a dusty exterior — Peck Foundry-Decks

Neo-Kyoto Sanctuary — neon pink and violet city district, tall checkered facades — Neo-Kyoto Sanctuary

The Council's Eye — gold-lit command corridor over the Reach — The Council's Eye

The Data-Vaults — dim teal corridor archive with a librarian NPC — The Data-Vaults

The Xelomite Hive-Spire — organic wavy-walled violet-lit cavern — The Xelomite Hive-Spire

Diego Sector — domed trading pit with a market assembly and a huge planet through the glazing — Diego Sector

Void-Hawk Reaches — dense rust-red raider scrap hangar — Void-Hawk Reaches

Allen Shipyards — green-tinted industrial shipworks hangar — Allen Shipyards

Worlds — procedural biomes

Deep space

Battle

How we’re improving — next steps

The target is the best our open-source AI pipeline can produce — detail and motion. Sequenced by perceived lift per unit of effort. Full detail & recipes: docs/visual-quality-north-star.md.

▶ Model fidelity

PBR materials — albedo + normal + roughness + metallic + AO per zone (skin/cloth/armor); flat shading is most of the “old” tell.
TRELLIS.2 @1024 re-forge pass — the free, proven fidelity bump.
TripoSG geometry + texture bake — cleanest silhouette, textured.
Faces & eyes — engine-side parametric eyes; a better face forge.

◉ Lighting & motion

Lighting + post — SSAO, soft shadows, tonemap, bloom, colour grade (lifts everything, mesh-independent).
Animation graph — blend trees, foot IK, secondary motion; beyond today’s single-pose procedural author.
Retargeted mocap — a library of quality clips onto the standard skeleton = fluid, non-robotic motion.
Per-weapon locomotion + hit/stagger reactions.

◇ Cleanup

Re-render defective models — the stray-vertex mid-render streaks.
Normalize TRELLIS bodies — orientation/scale for drop-in game use.
Portraits from models — every character has a matching face.

Where the game is at

▶ Playable now

Capital-ship fleet battle sim — 7v7 lockstep multiplayer
Character creator + morphable bodies & wardrobe (90+ forged bases)
The full COTA power system — 12 powers, 17 subpowers, skills & specialties, each described, with XP progression
Faction cast forged & playable — Council, the Iron Trail Confederacy, and the Aotearoa / Aethel / Hallyu Reaches
On-foot movement: walk / run / jump / slide / dodge / melee / aim
Data-driven campaign — the game now boots the whole story from editable scenario files (quests, dialogue, the NPC social graph, placement), validated on load like a compiler; the campaign is itself a scenario you can edit
The full armory is live — all 62 forged gear models are equippable Items; the walker holds your equipped weapon, the inventory shows a spinning 3D preview, ranged fire has real tracers from the muzzle, melee swings arc
Every named NPC talks — all 10 anchor NPCs carry authored dialogue trees with motivations, personal stories, and concrete asks that cross-reference each other (the Overseer, the fence, the Shogun, the salvage captain…)
Engine-native eyes — parametric iris/sclera eyes with blinks, geometrically socketed onto forged faces (visor droids correctly keep their visors); NPCs walk arms-at-sides facing their motion
Interior scenes read like places — windows onto local space, lit cryo-pod machinery, per-faction wall palettes (raider rust / verdant green / council blue), exit beacons so you always know how to leave, loading screens on every transition
Continuum Control's Temporal Slip — blink opens a stretched-time window: haste, precognitive evasion, and (level 3+) a stasis snap that freezes your pursuer in the moment you left
Vehicles fight — mounted weapons volley from their hardpoints and land area damage in the on-foot fight; walker mechs stride with an elevated cockpit

◷ In development

TRELLIS.2 image→3D forge — the whole cast (and ships, gear, vehicles) re-forged full-body with hands & feet, now the in-game bodies
Combat rescaled for the live-action game — deeper HP/damage pools, percentage armor, IPL-driven attack speed
Living worlds — props, horizon backdrops, gradient skies, textured walls
TRELLIS.2 geometry engine — a crisper image→3D forge (true PBR, sharper faces & gear) replacing the old muddy pass; re-forging the entire cast
Any forged model is a playable body — pick any of the cast as your on-foot avatar; all can hold gear & wield weapons in hand
Character breathing (environment-aware) & hand-placed gear
Ten new factions across the galaxy — Fringe Raiders, Datasphere AI, Verdant Kin, Peck Enclaves, the Shadow Armada (the antagonist), FreeSpace, Gate Guardians, Outer Rim & Diego Sector — 200+ characters forged & limb-verified (full-body, hands & feet)
Galaxy map — every faction seeded into canon star systems (Linked Space, FreeSpace, Radiance, the Reaches, the mobile Ark) with shared & neutral trade hubs
Faction reputation — per-faction standing with tiers, gating quests & rewards (R-key panel)
COTA-voiced dialogue trees per character (faction · role · personality)
Scenario authoring toolkit — a spec, an offline validator ("cargo build for scenarios"), and an MCP server so an AI can generate a whole adventure and have it checked before it ever loads; an in-game editor to curate it
Gadget-gated stories — gear you carry opens routes (a lock-cracker cracks the vault); weapons carry maker lore tied to their faction
Clean component rebuild — legacy neural models are withdrawn; TRELLIS.2 pre-rasterization inference plus Blender baking is under unchanged AAA-gate validation before new geometry can publish

◇ On the horizon

Powers: energy beams, gravity/TK blasts, teleport portals
The Warp — a hellish mirror-dimension for FTL travel
Ghost form & body reconstruction after death
Destructible scenes · persistent world state
Share scenarios & models on the Steam Workshop — play adventures other people build

Build log

The current snapshot is in Where the game is at above. The complete dated history — every build, newest first — has its own page.

Full build log →

Concept-match scoreboard

Every forged asset's render snapshot is compared against its concept art as diagnostic evidence. CLIP is evidence only, never a quality gate; the authoritative asset-quality verdict comes from Fable. The legacy scorecard references CLIP ≥ 0.80, silhouette IoU ≥ 0.90, and crisp-detail ≥ 0.55 so historical gaps remain visible without being presented as acceptance.

Concept-match scores load at runtime from concept-match-scores.json. If you're seeing this, the scores haven't been generated yet or the fetch failed.

In active development · updated every build. Art & models generated in-house via a local neural pipeline (SDXL → TRELLIS.2 → UniRig), rendered in Godot.