The Kadabra Gazette · October 1996 Extra

THE SHIPPING NEWS / GOLDEN KEEP

The Golden Ocean puts an orc community’s
new beginning in the hands of its captain.

A vast wooden ship with red sails carries a settlement across rough seas. — THE GOLDEN OCEAN — Promotional illustration, not a gameplay photograph.

The households of Thel are leaving for Lest. Their enormous wooden hulk is a vessel, a workplace and the beginning of another home. Its captain can walk among the people whose future depends on the crossing.

The Golden Ocean’s distinctive idea is that every order takes hands and time. Rest, illness and other jobs shape the crew’s response. The migration opening introduces a voyage built around the lives travelling together.

The crossing continues inside →

HOUSE & GARDEN

Eight guests.
One interruption.

A painted estate turns an evening of service into a household mystery.

CHANTILLY · INSIDE

THE NIGHT WATCH

The war
within the tank.

A haunted war machine is becoming a world understood through duty, sound and touch.

IRON LITANY · INSIDE

FROM THE GARDEN

Seven gardens.
Individual lives.

Care, weather and nearby habitats shape the residents you raise from seed.

PIXIE GARDEN · INSIDE

THE KADABRA GAZETTEHOUSE & GARDEN · OCTOBER 14, 1996

THE CONTENTS / TWO STORIES TO START WITH

Inside the
October extra

A painted hall inside the Chantilly estate. — Arrival hall

The house before the guests

Behind Chantilly’s painted doors, an evening of service becomes a mystery. The butler’s place in the household makes every guest a person to remember, and later someone to find.

An evening at Chantilly ↗

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THE COMPLETE COLLECTION

In this newspaper

✳

Select a story to turn to its numbered page. Each report separates what you can play now from work still in progress.

THE KADABRA GAZETTEHouse & garden / 03

CHANTILLY EVENING EDITION

CHANTILLY

Eight guests. One interrupted evening.

Chantilly opens the doors to a painted estate where the person serving dinner becomes the person following the mystery.

A sunlit painted entrance hall, with twin staircases around the front door. — Painted entrance hall from the game.

The drawing room inside Chantilly. — Drawing Room

The formal dining room prepared for guests. — Dining Room

Eight guests arrive; the butler takes coats and remembers supper requests.Painted halls, drawing room and dining room become the search’s setting.An interruption turns household duties into a mystery.

A mystery from inside the household

Chantilly begins with the intimate business of welcoming people: coats at the door, supper preferences and conversations carried from room to room. Then an interruption sends the butler searching for the guests he has just received. Familiar duties become the way into an unfamiliar situation.

A house worth returning to

Painted halls, a drawing room and a dining room give the evening its setting. The same rooms change in meaning as conversations develop. Remembering what someone wanted at supper can matter as much as knowing where they went; the household is the thread holding the opening together.

The evening now continues

The October 16 dinner service test adds painted dish handoffs and eating animation, plus 124 new voice cues across nineteen scenes, from dinner to departures. Linux, Windows and macOS packages include Play Evening Preview; Resume Evening restores the current scene. The normal opening remains available, while the browser pre-demo is an earlier, smaller introduction. Full player and platform acceptance continues.

THE KADABRA GAZETTEHouse & garden / 04

HAPPY PLACE COMMUNITY JOURNAL

YOUR HAPPY
PLACE

The office has become a survival problem.

Your Happy Place turns elevators, loose coins and vending machines into the equipment of an unsettling escape.

An empty yellow office with a desk beneath fluorescent lights and a doorway beyond. — Promotional artwork.

An elevator opens onto yellow office rooms with desks and branching corridors. — Follow the next doorway · development gameplay

Infrared goggles reveal the red outlines of a room through dark fog. — Read the room with infrared goggles · development gameplay

An elevator opens into yellow offices and branching corridors.Coins buy supplies from vending machines.Infrared goggles reveal red room outlines through the fog.

Familiar objects, new stakes

Abandoned offices lead into tunnels and the ground outside. The interesting discoveries are often ordinary things: furniture concealing supplies, an elevator opening another route, a machine selling something that might make the next stretch survivable. Exploration produces choices about what to carry and what to spend.

An escape with consequences

Injuries make the place more than a sequence of corridors. A broken leg changes movement, while gas masks and infrared goggles change which hazards and spaces can be approached. Health, money and body condition follow the player into saved progress, giving an expedition an aftermath.

Making the place hold together

The October 3 Windows and Linux edition repaired stairs, restored the ladder and refined the office interiors. Newer development centres on movement, footsteps and the experience of returning to a saved game. The current demos introduce that escape while its feel and continuity continue to develop; the Mac download remains an earlier edition.

THE KADABRA GAZETTEHouse & garden / 05

ZOO RESCUE NEWS

POOT-POOT!

A little car. A zoo full of reunions.

Poot-Poot and Pebble bring six young animals home before Wonderwild’s big parade.

The gorilla family reunited beside the waterfall in Wonderwild Zoo. — Gorilla Falls after a rescue · painted scene from the playable prototype.

The penguin family together on the snowy shore after a rescue. — Penguin Point after a rescue · another family ready for the parade.

Poot-Poot, your cheerful purple-car guide.

Six young animals need help getting home before the parade.Twelve painted locations connect useful objects to each rescue.Poot-Poot and Pebble travel with the player.

Good company on the road

Wonderwild’s twelve painted locations make a small adventure out of helping others. Poot-Poot and Pebble meet families, find useful objects and connect an animal’s problem with something discovered elsewhere. Six reunions build toward a parade ending, with pattern games and scenery surprises along the way.

An existing adventure finds a new screen

The browser edition carries the rescue story onto computers and portrait phone screens. Recent work has improved the way the car shares the scene with clickable roads and scenery, along with starting, saving and resuming the journey. Graduated hints let younger adventurers discover a solution with as much help as they need.

The whole round of rescues

The online game needs no installation, and the October 10 portable edition brings the same browser adventure offline. Autosave and three manual slots support visits of different lengths. Development review now follows the complete rescue-to-parade journey and the experience of coming back to an unfinished adventure. A recorded gameplay film is also planned.

THE KADABRA GAZETTEHouse & garden / 06

GARDEN ALMANAC

PIXIE
GARDEN

Little seeds. Individual lives.

Pixie Garden gives every resident an upbringing shaped by care, weather and the habitats around them.

The Pixie Garden native player showing tending in a cultivated garden. — Earlier native garden capture · current campaign is a later edition

A seed grows through sprout and egg stages into a resident.Watering, singing, weather and neighbouring habitats influence its upbringing.Seven connected districts grow toward a Dreamweaver Festival.

A life begins in the soil

An elemental seed becomes a sprout, an egg and eventually a resident with a history. Watering, singing, weather and neighbouring habitats influence that upbringing. Adults then roam, help and lend traits to new seeds, so the garden grows through relationships as well as planting.

A corner of Jabberwocky grows outward

This garden belongs to the world of Jabberwocky. Its campaign has developed into 28 restoration chapters across seven connected districts, building toward a Dreamweaver Festival. The character creator adds another route to individuality through proportions, clothing, dust and movement. Time away carries no penalty: the gardens can fit around the person tending them.

The current season

Linux edition 1.2.1 brings that later campaign together, accompanied by a showcase and a planting-and-care film. Windows and controller support remain unfinished. Art review and wider playtesting are the next work around a game whose central pleasure is already clear: getting to know the residents a particular garden has raised.

THE KADABRA GAZETTEThe Golden Keep / 07

GOLDEN KEEP WAR DISPATCH

GOLDEN KEEP
FORCES OF DARKNESS

A kingdom behind every battle.

Forces of Darkness makes an army’s strength a story of workers, workshops and the settlement supplying it.

Complete human and orc settlement and building concept sheet. — Human and orc structures

Black Dwarf of Golden Keep, in worn plate armour with a heavy hammer. — Black Dwarf · original world artwork

Humans, orcs, black dwarves and gargoyles bring distinct units and buildings.Workers carry cargo while recruits travel to training.Faction drawings, armour studies and settlement designs accompany the playable skirmish.

Four peoples, four ways of building

Humans, orcs, black dwarves and gargoyles bring their own units and buildings to Golden Keep’s real-time battles. Behind the fighting, workers carry cargo, recruits travel to training and workshops fit equipment. The settlement keeps working while attention moves to the front.

A world seen at the scale of an army

Forces of Darkness is one view of the world also explored by Golden Ocean, Golden Cliffs and Jabberwocky. Here, its people become communities to supply and forces to command. Faction drawings, armour studies and settlement designs accompany the playable skirmish, giving the developing world a visual life beyond its battlefield.

A shared battlefield takes shape

The 0.9.14 multiplayer development edition connects the ritual, visual and faction work with Host and Guest launchers. Both commanders need the same version. The Windows and Linux packages retain the settlement and its armies; a physical match, balance and final 1.0 acceptance still need review. The Overmind documentary remains a separate view of the workshop.

THE KADABRA GAZETTEThe Golden Keep / 08

GOLDEN OCEAN SHIPPING NEWS

GOLDEN
OCEAN

A ship carrying the beginnings of a home.

Sixty people are leaving Thel for Lest. The Golden Ocean makes their crossing a story of seamanship and community.

A broad wooden ship with red sails carries a settlement through rolling waves beneath a stormy sky. — Cinematic promotional artwork.

An overhead view shows the red-sailed ship leaving its berth, with crew orders and voyage information visible. — Give the ship room · development gameplay

The harbour watch interface shows crew and ship-handling orders beside the hulk. — Put the crew to work · development gameplay

Sixty people travel aboard the enormous wooden hulk.Crew must reach their stations before sail orders become action.Wind, current and swell meet a ship supported by working households.

The migration has a crew

An enormous wooden hulk carries households toward a new shore. Its captain can leave the bridge and walk among the people whose future depends on the passage. Supplies and space at the destination give the voyage a purpose beyond reaching a mark on the chart.

A vessel made of interdependent lives

The central idea is that orders take hands and time. Crew travel to their stations, rest, fall ill and become occupied with other jobs. Harbour lines and sails have their own stages of work. Wind, current and swell meet a ship whose responses depend on the people aboard it.

The first crossing, and the one ahead

Captain’s Practice and the migration opening introduce that relationship in the browser alpha and September desktop demos. Newer work includes a revised lesson reader to make the vessel easier to learn. Balance and the broader voyage remain in development, extending the ambition of carrying a community safely toward its next life.

THE KADABRA GAZETTEThe Golden Keep / 09

GOLDEN CLIFFS SURVEY

THE GOLDEN
CLIFFS

There are lives above the clouds.

The Golden Cliffs joins the physical tension of climbing to the people and settlements of the Lantern Road.

A climber looks toward a great inhabited cliff, its buildings cut into the rock. — Cinematic promotional artwork.

Hands grip the rock face above a mountain valley; climbing instructions and strain indicators remain visible. — Read the wall · development gameplay

Walkways, lamps and homes built into the cliff, with the Ropekeeper marked below. — Reach the refuge · development gameplay

Hands, feet and weight determine the next move up the wall.Resting on the feet gives tired arms room to recover.The Lantern Road leads toward refuges and the Ropekeeper.

A world within reach

Golden Keep’s cliff settlements become places experienced one handhold at a time. Weight on the feet gives tired arms room to recover; rope protection depends on a supported position. That connection between the climber’s body and the rock gives each exposed move its tension.

The climb leads to company

The Lantern Road carries a survey packet toward inhabited refuges. A Ropekeeper, a workshop and a spare pulley introduce people with practical lives in this vertical landscape. Distant towers suggest the wider world, while rock, rope and effort give way to resident and workshop sounds under shelter.

Two glimpses of a longer journey

The September 30 Windows and Linux demo contains Find Your Feet and a separate settlement visit. The walking update brought more of that inhabited world into view. Work has continued toward the complete sheltered route, with climbing feel, sound and a full Windows journey still needing playtesting. The lesson and refuge are the present introduction to that larger journey.

THE KADABRA GAZETTEThe Golden Keep / 10

JABBERWOCKY FIELD ATLAS

JABBER
WOCKY

Golden Keep, through a traveller’s eyes.

Jabberwocky brings the shared fantasy world close enough to walk through, fly over and find a place within.

An armored black dwarf stands above a mountain settlement in Golden Keep. — The black dwarf of Golden Keep — concept artwork.

A gargoyle takes flight above the hills, with the spell bar and injury display visible. — Take the wind · development gameplay

A gargoyle returns toward the town and its fortified tower. — Find care after the fight · development gameplay

Human, orc, black dwarf or gargoyleGargoyle flight and swimmingInjuries can send the traveller back for care

From a world to a life within it

The strongholds, inhabited cliffs and seaborne communities of Golden Keep belong to one setting. Jabberwocky approaches it at the scale of a single human, orc, black dwarf or gargoyle: conversations in settlements, quests from their inhabitants and encounters beyond the road.

Wings change the journey

A gargoyle’s wind flight and swimming open another relationship with that landscape. The October 3 edition adds an equally important connection to the body: injuries and limited treatment. A confrontation can carry consequences back into town, where care becomes part of the adventure that follows it.

The inhabited world is still growing

The current Windows and Linux demos introduce this version of Golden Keep, with flight, swimming and the newer injury systems. Animation remains at prototype stage, and performance and Windows play still need further review. Those are the immediate development needs around the larger appeal: meeting the world’s people as a traveller, with a journey of your own.

THE KADABRA GAZETTEElsewhere & the wild / 11

ELSEWHERE ILLUSTRATED

ECHOES OF
ELSEWHERE

What if an element could become a landscape?

Recovered notebooks and a creature archive are becoming the Living Wilds, a six-region adventure about companions that grow through use.

Frostbite Wolf, from the original numbered creature archive — Original creature artwork · Frostbite Wolf

Original Galeforce Gearhawk card artwork: a bird of steel, gears and wind. — Original creature artwork · Galeforce Gearhawk

Six elemental regionsAbilities develop through useYellow Notebook ideas become the Living Wilds

The notebook behind the world

The original Yellow Notebook imagined elements as ingredients of landscapes. Water and living green could gather into an environment; an element could describe a place as well as an advantage in combat. Recovered Combat Options notes and the original creature archive add another thread: companions whose abilities develop through use.

Those ideas now have roads

Living Wilds turns that material into a campaign across six regions, with beacons, wilderness encounters, creature capture and crafting. Battles reveal an opponent’s intent, giving a trained company reasons to guard, change companions or commit to an ability. A familiar creature carries the history of the time spent developing it.

Where the wilds are heading

The current 1.1.0 local edition succeeds the October adventure pre-demo. Art, interface, combat and animation continue to develop. The wider notebook geography remains an ambition, and connecting the adventure with the Echoes card game is a recorded design intention. Their present campaigns are separate, sharing the creature world from which both are growing.

THE KADABRA GAZETTEElsewhere & the wild / 12

ELSEWHERE CARD SALON

ECHOES OF ELSEWHERE
THE CARD GAME

A creature’s story can unfold on the table.

Echoes’ card game brings ability growth and emotion mana into a campaign of twelve keeper duels.

A playable keeper duel: summon, strike, teach an ability and decide how to spend the next turn.

Twenty-card decksTwelve keepers across six regionsAbility use spends emotion mana and earns experience

Growth belongs inside the duel

Echoes puts a developing creature at the heart of its card battles. Abilities spend emotion mana and earn experience; growth opens room for new moves. Protecting a companion also protects the investment in what it has learned. The twenty-card deck becomes a small company with possibilities still unfolding.

Old ideas, a new table

The digital adaptation draws on the recovered creature archive and notes about learning through ability use. Its campaign, balance and simplified rules are later additions to that material. The pool spans 620 creatures and sixteen elements, with crafting and packs supporting different approaches to building a collection.

The first campaign is playable

Twelve keepers across six regions lead to a story ending, with three difficulties and regional opponents using different strategies. Table edition r2 improves the hand drawer, summoning and turn guidance. Further art and animation work continues around this early adaptation. The broader Echoes adventure shares its creatures, while the two campaigns currently follow their own paths.

THE KADABRA GAZETTEElsewhere & the wild / 13

SWARM FIELD REPORT

SWARM

Many small machines. One living system.

SWARM turns a drawing of specialist groups into a travelling collective whose survival depends on its own relationships.

A travelling formation of carriers and small specialist craft, shown in the SWARM systems film. — Formation from the illustrative systems film; not a gameplay recording.

The SWARM campaign map with a route of connected missions. — Campaign map · existing project capture

134 craft in nine specialist familiesThe campaign starts with its whole collectiveEight opening missions and two longer routes

An idea drawn in groups

SWARM begins with a drawing of specialists nested inside larger groups. The game gives that structure movement: scouts report contacts, guards stay near exposed neighbours and coordinators influence the craft around them. A travelling formation grows out of many local decisions.

Support is part of the spectacle

Its 134 craft include energy reserves, tenders and repair specialists. Small craft launch from carriers, return, queue and receive service. Energy has to travel through the group along with everything it supports. The campaign starts with an existing collective, making care for those interdependencies the heart of command.

The drawing becomes a journey

The browser campaign develops the idea through eight opening missions and two longer routes. Earlier narrated films explain the system through illustrations redrawn from simulation activity. Development now needs longer campaign play, touch-control review and more work on pacing and listening. The aim already visible in the formation is a collective that remains legible as both many individuals and one moving whole.

THE KADABRA GAZETTEElsewhere & the wild / 14

INHOSPITABLE FIELD CIRCULAR

INHOSPITABLE

The fire is home. The road leads out.

Inhospitable’s winter expedition is expanding from a cabin and hunting ground toward an icy drive into town.

A hooded traveller warms their hands at a cabin hearth, with cold blue woods beyond the window. — Promotional artwork.

A traveller stands beside a sled in the snow, with heat, hunger and weapon indicators visible. — Prepare for the cold · earlier demo footage

A traveller stands beside a bed inside the prepared cabin, with heat and hunger indicators visible. — Return to shelter · earlier demo footage

An SUV and icy cliff road extend the October expeditionClinic, workshop and cabin repair benchSave and Continue preserve the journey

Survival with a centre

Inhospitable places its home beside a cabin fire. Food, warmth and supplies draw the traveller outward, while heat and hunger give the return journey its urgency. The cabin makes winter survival a rhythm of departure and return, with each expedition bringing something back to an ongoing life.

The world beyond the hunting ground

The October 1 edition extends that early routine with an SUV, an icy cliff road and town destinations. A clinic and workshop give the drive a practical purpose; a repair bench brings more of the expedition back into the cabin. Save and Continue now preserve the journey, including the opened pantry.

A longer expedition takes shape

The Windows and Linux downloads contain these additions, while the Mac demo records an earlier stage. The current direction is visible in the change itself: a shelter and its surroundings becoming a connected expedition with travel, supplies and a place to resume. The winter game remains in development; the photographs retained here also show its earlier beginnings.

THE KADABRA GAZETTEThe night watch / 15

LAST-SERVICE BULLETIN

THE DARK
BETWEEN STATIONS

The train is familiar. The next stop isn’t.

The Dark Between Stations is building a horror journey around the uneasy comfort of returning to the same carriage.

A traveller watches a creature beside a train waiting in a dark station. — Cinematic promotional artwork.

The Night Line carriage and Station 01 arrival display in the September 29 Linux game build. — Aboard the Night Line

The current Station 01 creature on the dark platform beside the train. — Station 01 · the platform encounter

The Night Line is the recurring refugeStation 01 brings a creature encounterStation 02 introduces an unfinished mirror task

A journey with a recurring refuge

The Night Line moves through dark carriages toward unfamiliar stations. Its train gives the journey a recurring interior, while each platform brings a different task and something beyond the light. The relationship between those spaces gives the route its tension: the place waiting outside changes, but the journey back matters every time.

Two stops show the direction

A creature encounter occupies the first platform; a mirror puzzle introduces another kind of investigation at the next station. Together they show how the railway can hold different horror experiences within one continuing passage. The retained September captures document those early stops and the carriage between them.

Giving the route its sound

The September 30 Windows and Linux editions improved ambience and sound playback, an important part of a journey through darkness and enclosed spaces. These demos introduce the station-to-carriage structure while the full campaign remains in development. Its larger promise grows from that repeated crossing between the familiar train and whatever the next stop has become.

THE KADABRA GAZETTEThe night watch / 16

NOTICE OF MISPLACED ROOMS

WRONG
PLACES

Ordinary places. Extraordinary rules.

Wrong Places gathers eleven investigations whose cameras, materials and controls belong to the mysteries themselves.

An empty tiled transit corridor recedes toward a distant passage in Last Service. — Last Service — actual play from the preserved 0.22.0 edition.

Wrong Places collection showing its illustrated catalogue of impossible places. — Playable collection · from the 0.22.0 edition

Eleven places with different cameras and rulesPrinted words have weight in The MarginParcel 0 turns folded paper into a route

An anthology built from contradictions

A transit passage returns to a familiar ticket. Two versions of a coast preserve different pieces of a route. A missing house casts a shadow. Wrong Places builds each investigation around a particular contradiction, then gives it a visual language of its own, from first-person corridors to pixel shores and an isometric paper landscape.

The medium becomes the mystery

The Margin gives words physical weight; Parcel 0 turns folding a survey map into movement through its lanes. In The Other Cursor, a remembered hand acts at old desktop coordinates while the little world beneath it moves. These ideas make the way a game is presented part of what can be discovered inside it.

Eleven voices, one collection

The current 0.23.0 edition adds recorded narration across all eleven investigations and preserves existing saves. Field notes and graduated hints support a patient pace without countdowns or jump scares. The collection continues as a prototype anthology, developing its own rendered art and sound around eleven distinct ways for a place to go wrong.

THE KADABRA GAZETTEThe night watch / 17

INK AND IRON RECORD

IRON
LITANY

The machine is moving. Everything inside it matters.

Iron Litany makes its tech-priest responsible for a war machine whose crew, mechanisms and haunted seams all demand attention.

Iron Litany concept cover: a tech-priest aboard an ancient war machine. — Concept cover · art direction

Actual shrine work: earned wax is counted separately from resting the chain. — Count the witnesses · actual play

Actual gameplay: an intruder approaches the priest’s raised blade. — Defend the vessel · actual gameplay

The watch starts with the tank already moving.Five wax witnesses must answer before the chain rests.Killing the intruder leaves its entry to be sealed.

A moving interior full of obligations

The tank is already advancing when the watch begins. Mechanical work, crew demands and intrusions compete for the priest’s attention. Levers have weight, sights need settling and a shrine counts its answers in wax. The battlefield passes through narrow slits while the more immediate struggle unfolds inside.

Making the ritual tangible

Recent development has focused on the physical evidence of a task: a pin rising, a witness changing, a mechanism answering. A listening pin carries the engine’s pulse to the priest’s hand. Sealing a wound in the vessel remains a separate responsibility from defeating the body that came through it.

Thunder in the iron

Version 0.5.6 clarifies the censer’s completed count and gives the cannon a heavier report, shuddering steel and a fading rumble. Browser, Windows and Linux editions contain the early three-stage watch. Art, listening and first-play pacing remain the next focus, with a gameplay film awaiting creator demo approval. The central ambition is a vessel understood through duty, sound and touch.

THE KADABRA GAZETTEThe night watch / 18

NINTH SEA SOUNDING

THE
NINTH
SEA

An ocean large enough to hide a god.

The Ninth Sea begins with a rowboat and a colossal stone figure, then opens a second recording above the water.

A tiny wooden rowboat beneath a colossal stone Poseidon in an endless block ocean. — PE–09 · original promotional illustration, not a gameplay capture

Six seas and four realities in the Boat campaign.Either ending opens a six-aircraft campaign.The stone figure moves when nobody is watching.

Small boat, impossible scale

A wooden rowboat sits beneath a stone figure in an ocean without a shore. Breath runs out long before the depth does. The Boat campaign carries that sense of scale through six seas and four realities, with two endings opening an airborne continuation.

A second recording changes the journey

Six aircraft bring six different relationships with the sky. The Courier lifts from water, the engineless Listener trades height for speed, and the heavy Ark needs room for its descent. Eighteen objectives extend the voyage into a campaign whose machines change the experience of crossing it.

The cassette and the current game

Created in October 2026, the prototype uses PE–09’s fictional 1996 found-cassette story as its frame. Its stone figure adapts scans of Michelangelo’s David. Browser edition 0.6.0 contains both campaigns, with separate boat and flight saves, checkpoint practice and continued player polish. The boat’s vulnerability and the aircraft’s different ways of moving now give that impossible world two scales of adventure.

THE KADABRA GAZETTEFrom the workshop / 19

WAR TABLE STRATEGIC DISPATCH

WAR
TABLE

A campaign to command. A board to remake.

War Table brings historical strategy and a scenario workshop together above the TripleA engine.

War Table browser world map showing territory control across the game board. — World map · captured browser interface

The War Table Two Gates board showing a levy moved from West Gate to West Approach. — Two Gates controls · actual browser gameplay, edited film frame

War Table scenario workshop with editable game settings. — Scenario workshop · captured browser interface

Buy, move, battle, collect income.Change units, territories and rules in the workshop.TripleA supplies the rules, opponents, dice and saves.

The campaign becomes a table

War Table places ancient, medieval, Napoleonic and world-war campaigns in a browser board presentation. Purchases, commanders, movement and battles belong to one continuing campaign, played against computer opponents or shared by people at the same machine. TripleA supplies the rules, dice, opponents and saves beneath it.

The board is also a workshop

Its distinctive direction is the invitation to alter the game. Units, territories and rules can become a smaller scenario of the player’s own. The mechanics sandbox and first-volley Combat Lab make room for experiments alongside the campaigns. Two Gates gives this broad system a small opening, with a film showing an actual turn.

The development edition

The current Linux demo packages the local game and its TripleA runtime together. Its workshop, board artwork and introductions are the areas through which this adaptation is taking shape. Longer campaigns and the art, sound and player experience still need review. Networked browser multiplayer is outside the present edition.

THE KADABRA GAZETTEFrom the workshop / 20

TOWER AND TURNPIKE CHRONICLE

POWER
TOWERS

The defence has a pulse.

Power Towers makes the energy travelling between buildings as important as the maze confronting the enemy.

The paused Ashen Pass field shows towers connected by directed power lines beside the building palette. — The Ashen Pass — paused manual-power gameplay after wiring the furnace to two weapons.

Every power connection is drawn by the player.Land furnaces consume nearby grass.Each building stores its own energy.

A battlefield that is also a circuit

A furnace consumes the grass beside it. A hydro wheel depends on water. Weapons wait for energy carried along directed lines, through pylons and storage, while enemies follow the route between numbered gates. Building a defence means designing both the enemy’s journey and the supply that will meet it.

A design with a visible history

This version adapts Craig Gidney’s Power Towers design and algorithms, with its own fantasy buildings and terrain. Development has replaced proximity power with manually drawn connections. Moving lights make transfer visible, and shared capacity gives a busy pylon a reason to become the weak point of an otherwise formidable defence.

The next test is the whole network

The browser opening demonstrates wiring and the start of a wave. Core supplies steady generation; Stormfront adds forecasts, draining enemies and stored-energy overdrive. Complete ten-wave runs, reloaded networks and exhausted supplies still need playtesting, alongside art and sound. Those longer tests will establish how this new emphasis on power holds up through a whole defence.

THE KADABRA GAZETTEFrom the workshop / 21

BLACKWATER MOTOR REGISTER

POD-RACING
FOUNDATION

Every machine has a temperament.

The racing foundation’s 0.2 edition gives its modular craft rivals, distinct routes and machinery that changes the drive.

The Needle hover racer drives between orange canyon walls with race position, gate and speed instruments visible. — The Sundered Reach — The Needle in the 0.2.0 canyon race; actual local gameplay capture.

384 garage combinations.Four routes and six computer rivals.Boost builds heat; venting costs thrust.

The garage is part of the race

An engine, chassis, cooling system and control hardware produce 384 possible combinations. Six craft families express different personalities: the Pale Needle runs light and hot, Iron Vesper carries armour and weight, and Sidewinder’s unequal engines pull under load. The machinery gives a racing line its own demands.

The foundation finds its field

Version 0.2 adds a competing field and four distinct routes, from quarry cuts and a sea wall to high viaducts and low-grip ice. Heat, venting and damage connect the handling to the machine’s condition. Assisted and separate-thrust controls offer different ways into that relationship. BLACKWAKE remains the working title.

Handling comes next

The browser playtest includes time trials, circuits and a point-to-point format. The next documented work compares the six builds and calibrates controllers before more elaborate coupled-machine physics. Art, sound and whole-race balance also need review. Career progression and multiplayer remain outside this prototype, whose present focus is how each machine feels on the course.

THE KADABRA GAZETTEFrom the workshop / 22

AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE DISPATCH

WW2 COMBAT FOOTAGE
FLIGHT SIMULATOR

The film keeps running. Then the controls become yours.

FilmFlight experiments with turning an archival approach over Rabaul into a short passage of playable flight.

Original editorial diagram of a generic wing, film strip and horizon. — Editorial illustration of the flight study; not archival footage or gameplay.

A development notebook, not a public game release.Original Gazette drawing; source artwork remains held.See the reading edition for release qualifications.

A frame becomes a question

Filmflight asks what happens when watching an aerial approach becomes the beginning of a playable flight. A fixed photographic view establishes a horizon and a course; the experiment studies whether steering can preserve that continuity. This is a development question, not a newly released historical simulation.

An illustration of the idea

The Gazette drawing pairs a generic wing with film perforations and a horizon. It is original editorial artwork, not an archival frame, a reconstruction of a photographed battle or a gameplay capture. The historical source material used in the private study is not reproduced in this issue.

At the source desk

The archival source-use determination remains unresolved. Public runtime promotion, footage, screenshots and any film based on those frames are held for item-specific clearance. The study remains in the catalogue as an account of work in progress. No cleared cinematic trailer or narrated gameplay recording has been supplied.

THE KADABRA GAZETTEFrom the workshop / 23

GARALINA PUBLIC NOTICE

PETSCOP

A recorded game becomes a place to investigate.

This private fan reconstruction studies the fictional game in Tony Domenico’s Petscop series, one observed detail at a time.

Editorial illustration of recording and replay; not a Petscop game screenshot.

A development notebook, not a public game release.Original Gazette drawing; source artwork remains held.See the reading edition for release qualifications.

A reconstruction notebook

This independent fan study examines the spaces, movement and recording ideas of Tony Domenico’s Petscop series. Observed details and provisional interpretations are different kinds of evidence: building a navigable room does not establish that every unknown system has been recovered. The project remains a private reconstruction, without official endorsement.

Recording, returning, replaying

A generic recorder, blank file tabs and a looping route carry the story on this page. They are an original newspaper diagram, not copied sprites, the Guardian, a game room or an exact interface. The drawing gives the recording-and-replay idea a visible form while the source artwork stays out of this public edition.

The unfinished comparison

Asset-by-asset artwork provenance and public promotional permission remain unresolved. New runtime promotion and screenshots are held; no cleared cinematic trailer or narrated gameplay film is presented here. Mechanics, visual matching, sound and controller use continue to need review. The full reading edition keeps this release status explicit.

THE KADABRA GAZETTEFrom the workshop / 24

ALPINE DISPATCH

BLACK
RIDGE

Five hundred shadows. One crew.

Operation Abendlied brings a continuous bomber sortie to the Black Ridge workshop.

Original mountain-ridge title illustration for Schwarzkamm — Original Gazette editorial illustration; not gameplay footage.

A continuous fifteen-minute operation.Nine phases across a crowded sky.The seven-base campaign is retained.

Nine phases over the ridge

Operation Abendlied follows formation assembly, interception, bombing and withdrawal through nine connected phases. Its fifteen-minute sortie sets a 512-bomber formation against the work of a single crew. The scale of the sky and the tasks inside the machine are deliberately different views of the same flight.

An archive remains open

The seven-base campaign remains alongside the 0.3.0 operation. Twenty-six German crew recordings and selectable English or German captions support the sortie. The anonymous synthetic crew roles are distinct from the project’s approved Inglis voice; human listening, balance and a full campaign playthrough remain open.

A separate flight

Black Ridge is separate from Filmflight. Its armed Zeppelin fleet is alternate history. The public launcher provides the offline edition, while the development Site remains owner-private. No separate cinematic trailer or narrated gameplay film has been supplied; this illustration is Gazette artwork, not flight footage.

THE KADABRA GAZETTEFrom the workshop / 25

GALLERY GAZETTE

PAINTED
WORLDS

A keep full of doors into paintings.

A castle-and-painting platformer foundation links a living keep with six elemental worlds.

Original editorial illustration of a framed castle and elemental marks — Original Gazette editorial illustration; not gameplay footage.

A gallery leads into six elemental worlds.New powers change earlier routes.An earlier foundation; newer work remains private.

A frame is a threshold

The current owner-private 0.4 build joins twelve inhabited castle spaces through a saved atlas. Paintings still lead into six elemental worlds; five secret passages and eighteen mystery records give revisiting the keep a purpose.

A world still being named

Painted Worlds is a separate platformer foundation, with The Painted Oath as its Golden Keep content pack. Working names and guardian stories remain proposals rather than established Atheria canon. The Gazette’s framed castle is original editorial illustration, not a screenshot of the private game or its source drawing.

From the private workshop

This report covers the owner-private 0.4 castle and atlas test. The public newspaper does not grant access to that host or offer a game download. A field guide and progression are present, but unaided full playthrough, physical-controller, art and audio acceptance remain pending. A cinematic trailer and narrated gameplay film have not been supplied.

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