Character concept · WIP
Mara
She gives impossible things weight.
ELVN Studio · In development
ONE PIXEL
Someone was saved.
Someone else was forgotten.
A cosmic narrative RPG about memory, mercy and a universe that can forget its own history.
The world
The universe does not end.
It revises itself.
Travel with a damaged crew through places built from remembered laws. Every contradiction has witnesses. Every mercy leaves evidence. Sometimes survival means deciding which truth the world is allowed to keep.
A mechanic, not a filter
History leaves pressure marks.
Witness does not choose which record is true. It holds two impossible records in view long enough for the party to act on what ordinary history removed.
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Live build · Simulator
A street is being erased under their feet.
This is a real frame from the current Swift/SpriteKit executable—not a cinematic mockup. The debug launch only places the build at a reproducible story beat.
Immediate questionWhat is disappearing?
Player actionPreserve human truths. Reach the far door.
Current gateUncoached iPhone retest pending.
The party
No one survives a contradiction alone.
Concept development feeds distinct runtime silhouettes, portraits and animation. These sheets are direction—not a claim of final production art.
Character concept · WIP
Cael
She knows the cost of an official truth.
Character concept · WIP
Witness
You can hold two impossible truths long enough to act.
Character concept · WIP
Tavi
The missing route remembers her, even when the world does not.
The journey
A ship, a sea, a city that remembers differently.
Environment and ship target sheets guide scale, palette and atmosphere. They are not final gameplay screenshots.
The game
Explore. Witness. Commit. Live with it.
ONE PIXEL is being built as a premium, iPhone-first, story-driven cosmic RPG. The target is a branching six-to-eight-hour campaign where the party acts on your decisions—and sometimes refuses them.
- 01Party-driven exploration
Companions read the world, remember choices and act for reasons of their own.
- 02Witness
Hold incompatible truths in view long enough to reveal an action the official world removed.
- 03Failure-forward
Contact can erase a name, detail or route without turning the story into a restart screen.
- 04Costly decisions
Every solution saves something, loses something and changes what the party remembers.
Development log
Signals from production.
No invented release dates. No concept art labeled as gameplay. Every update states what runs, what changed and what remains unproven.
PLAYABLE BUILD
Dock Nine rescue pass
The opening now centers on a dead man standing at his own funeral. Faster grounded movement, close-up facial animation, seven narrative 8-bit arrangements and restrained ambient ships, lamps, trams and cloth were rebuilt around first-time clarity.
View evidenceCHARACTERS
The cast gets its own motion language
Witness, Mara, Sera and Olan now use distinct concept-derived runtime atlases, authored walk cadence and scene-specific reactions instead of a shared placeholder body.
View evidenceWORLD
The signal goes public
The first official ONE PIXEL page established the world, Witness mechanic, Sentence, Myr and Vesper without presenting concept art as final gameplay.
View evidenceRoadmap
Prove the game before expanding it.
Dates stay unannounced until scope and human validation support them. Gates are part of the roadmap, not footnotes.
- 01COMPLETE
Narrative foundation
Six-to-eight-hour campaign, canonical cast, Witness, failure-forward and three ending families.
- 02VALIDATING
Dock Nine vertical slice
A complete story loop from Olan's contradiction through Extra Street to one costly decision.
- 03GATED
Unfinished Sentence
Party hub and first expedition begin only after uncoached clarity, grounded feel and music pass on iPhone.
- 04PLANNED
Campaign production
Expeditions, ship encounters, worlds and branching consequences produced from the validated core.
Current state
The honest state of the universe.
Dock Nine is the active executable. The current source builds, installs and launches on iPhone 13; the next decisive evidence is a full speaker/headphone route and three uncoached playthroughs.
- Story campaign
- Locked
- Localization architecture
- 134 semantic IDs · 8 layout locales
- Dock Nine story slice
- Playable · clarity rescue in validation
- Physical iPhone
- Install/launch proven · full retest pending
- Blind player gate
- Pending
- Alpha campaign
- Not announced
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If the universe forgets,
we will leave a signal.
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