Loptr Lab

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DUET

Explore a solo chess experience and its developing social play pathways.

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Current scope and limitations for DUET

Public testing

Made Sick

Explore a creator pathway centered on consent and ownership.

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Current scope and limitations for Made Sick

Read-only pre-alpha

PIXIE Public Discovery

Explore public Bluesky topics without signing in.

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Different projects. A shared home.

Each project has its own purpose, current status and participation boundaries.

Play, stories & creative worlds

50 Ways to Leave Another

Creative work in development; discovery pre-alpha

Follow a music-first creative development record, rights-aware learning materials and the experimental Pixie discovery tool.

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Battle the Beast

Narrative archive and prototype

Explore fractured timelines, recurring identity and narrative repair through a transformative fan archive.

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DUET

Public game demo; integration experiments

Explore a solo chess experience and its developing social play pathways.

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Ren Rhapsody

Public creative study

Explore a creative study with a public evidence ledger.

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Story Lab

Public story archive and development surface

Explore the story archive and experiments that connect Loptr Lab’s creative practice.

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Veiled Dominion

Original game system in development

Develop an original strategic system around asymmetry, restraint, consequence and shared responsibility.

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Violet’s Revenge

Game development branch

Investigate inherited identity through a developing gothic-forensics game branch.

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Creator tools & participation

Made Sick

Public testing

A creator participation pathway centered on consent, ownership and user-chosen care.

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Narrative Provenance

Local Obsidian plugin

Keep authorship, sources and creative decisions legible through local provenance metadata.

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PIXIE Creator OS

Local workspace prototype

Prepare creative work, review its context and choose a sharing pathway at your own pace.

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PIXIE Device Stewardship

Research and interactive example

Explore accessible ways to name, organize and return to creative work without forcing disclosure.

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Pixie Public Discovery

Working read-only pre-alpha; stable-release review remains open

Search public Bluesky topics and explore bounded suggestions with visible retrieval context.

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PIXIE Holdings / PIXIE OS

Executable prototype

Explore creator capacity, resource allocation and public-receipt preparation through a companion test bench.

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Made Sick Story Finder

Working read-only public-feed tool

Find passages in one public Bluesky author feed and collect references for a story.

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Development & archives

Break This Build

Public development and review surface

Explore the public creative review, game prototypes and documented development decisions.

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Daddy’s Little Mortis

Public project surface; implementation not assessed

Explore a distinct creative presence within the Loptr Lab ecosystem.

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Loptr Lab Tumblr archive

Public archive

Explore the public Tumblr archive as a separate discovery surface.

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Collaborate

A small contribution can help.

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Ecosystem principles, story architecture & provenance

Loptr Lab · Ecosystem

People first. Room to create, understand and cooperate.

Loptr Lab is Dominique Devereaux’s people-over-profit, accessibility-first creative and research practice. Stories, games and creator tools share an interest in identity, consent and agency, while each project keeps its own purpose and boundaries.

This is our central directory. Start with a project that fits your interests or present capacity. Its discovery page brings together the live experience, source code, current stage and what actually connects to the Atmosphere. Questions, differing perspectives and thoughtful collaboration are welcome.

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Thirty-second orientation

Early stories about power, identity, consent, and inherited responsibility developed into Urban Alien Adventures—a distributed narrative method in which advertisements and background media gradually reveal the players and the world. Those experiments informed Battle the Beast, Violet's Revenge, and the original systems design of Veiled Dominion. Loptr Lab turns that history into games, research, accessible production methods, and contributor pathways.

Development lineage

From political myth to playable system

  1. 01 · ANCESTRAL GRAMMAR

    Lady Violet & Sebastian

    A conflict between rebellion and responsibility: he is free to refuse the system; she is made responsible for everyone harmed if she refuses it.

    Planned archive · source inventory pending

  2. 02 · DISTRIBUTED DISCOVERY

    The RIM

    Genesis of Urban Alien Adventures: story appears in ads, artifacts, and background media until the audience discovers who the players are.

    Planned archive · source inventory pending

  3. 03 · ADAPTATION FRAMEWORK

    Urban Alien Adventures

    The story-delivery method becomes an adaptation framework built around layered identities and environmental evidence.

    Adaptation · not game-rules authority

  4. 04 · NONLINEAR PROTOTYPE

    Battle the Beast

    A transformative fan archive testing fractured timelines, recurring identity, ensemble interdependence, and narrative repair.

    Open repository ↗
  5. 05 · INHERITED INVESTIGATION

    Violet's Revenge

    The ancestral conflict returns through a gothic-forensics game branch in which Violet investigates the history behind her identity.

    Open repository ↗
  6. 06 · PLAYABLE SYSTEM

    Veiled Dominion

    Original strategic design translates transferable principles into asymmetry, restraint, consequence, and shared responsibility.

    Open repository ↗

Creator care & economic agency

Made Sick

Made Sick extends the ecosystem into a consent-first creator pathway: celebrate meaningful work, preserve creator ownership, and support user-chosen care without streaks, punishment, medical claims, or compulsory disclosure.

Open Made Sick ↗

A path to The Futur

Made Sick is Dominique Devereaux’s independent expression of the spirit behind Chris Do’s 1 Billion Mission: helping people make a living doing what they love. Creators seeking business education are referred to The Futur.

Visit The Futur ↗

No affiliation or endorsement by Chris Do or The Futur is implied. The referral is optional and separate from health and consent features.

Discovery architecture

  1. 1. Encounter apparently separate fragments.
  2. 2. Recognize recurring signals and identities.
  3. 3. Discover the players and their relationships.
  4. 4. Realize the surrounding media is part of the story.
  5. 5. Move from viewing to investigation and play.

John August's The Nines ↗ is identified as structural inspiration for layered identity and reality discovery—not as an affiliation or adaptation license.

Transfer boundary

Design principles and testable player experiences may move between projects. Franchise characters, protected expression, recordings, lyrics, images, and other third-party material do not. Every destination repository controls its own canon.

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Help bring the ecosystem to life →Read the architecture document

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