The two halves must match.
A tally stick recorded a debt in notches, then was split lengthwise so each party held half. Neither half proved anything alone.
Games
The Black Ledger
A survival sandbox in a mythic world, where what the community votes for is what gets built — and the record of every decision, including the refusals, is public.
Read about the game → In developmentElemental Dominions
A real-time strategy game. Six Dominions dig for the Aether that seeps up through the ground, climb four ages, and take the map from one another. The simulation runs on whole numbers and a seeded roll rather than floating point — so a finished match plays back exactly as it happened, not approximately.
Play in your browser → PlayableBlackwood Manor
A haunted-house text adventure. Thirty-three rooms drawn in ASCII, and a parser that understands seventy-five ways of saying the same thing.
Play in your browser → PlayableFour-Way Chess
Chess for four players on a fourteen-by-fourteen board. A player who is checkmated leaves their pieces where they stand — dead, unmoving, and still in everyone's way.
Play in your browser → PlayableWingover
A glider with no engine and one control. Hold to trade height for speed, release to trade it back. The air is really moving, and you cannot see any of it — only the dust that is moving in it.
Play in your browser → PlayableCouloir
A wingsuit and a mountain, seen from inside the helmet. Four lines leave the same ledge and the glide will only just reach the valley, so every turn is paid for out of the same margin. One of the four does not go — the wall across it has no gap in it.
Play in your browser →How we work
Decisions carry their reasons
Nothing ships with "because we said so" attached. If a thing was refused, the refusal is published with the reason.
Contributors are named permanently
If a suggestion gets built, the person who made it is credited for as long as the game exists — including if the content is later removed.
We publish our mistakes
When something breaks, we write down what broke, why nothing caught it, and what changed so it cannot happen the same way twice.