Liminal Laboratory
Apple games, folklore systems, field notes, and useful tools from the threshold.
Current public experiment
A whimsical supernatural forest game for Apple devices, developed like a field expedition: specimen plates, measured prototypes, strange creatures, and a map that politely refuses to stay finished.
Liminal Laboratory makes Apple-first games and the tools needed to build them. The house style is half naturalist folio, half playable prototype: beautiful when it can be, measurable when it must be.
The Lyceum is being reserved for a different future project. This domain is the lab: the forge, field desk, and public notebook for Witch of the Woods.
Experiment
I
You are a young witch entering a forest whose creatures, paths, and silences behave like living annotations. Magic begins as observation: read warmth, listen to bats, follow fox-trails, and learn which gaps in the map are invitations.
II
The prototype is being forged with SwiftUI, RealityKit, and ARKit experiments rather than a general-purpose game engine. The goal is immediate touch feel, device-tested performance, and an Apple-native toolchain.
III
The public site should not pretend the game is finished. It should show the specimens, the current technical truths, and the next clear experiment.
Biome
Silent flight and stolen kettle-sounds
Echo maps in lapis rings
Amber pollen lanterns
Dew archivists and fern-scale bridges
The expanded expedition story is now the best doorway into the tone: Travels in the Wychwood Province.
Build ledger
Verified
The current prototype launches into a landscape-only virtual forest with third-person movement, a virtual joystick, HUD readouts, and a RealityKit camera.
Verified
Device yaw and pitch can steer the virtual camera while joystick movement keeps the player grounded in the rendered woods.
Verified
Runtime crossed-card trees work at modest density; one-entity-per-tree does not scale forever. The next renderer experiment is grouped cards or clustered impostors.
Tool
The editor workstream, currently USDSceneForge, is the macOS authoring side: open scenes, inspect assets, validate the contract, and keep the game world legible before it reaches the phone.
Apparatus
Witch of the Woods is the playable surface: movement feel, camera comfort, forest density, creature language, and the first small systems of magic.
Witch World Weaver and USDSceneForge are how the lab keeps content authoring close to the game instead of drifting into disconnected asset experiments.
The site is static, fast, and Cloudflare-hosted. It can start as a field notebook and grow into press kit, devlog, wishlist funnel, and launch archive.
Correspondence
For now this is a mock ledger entry point. Later it can become a real newsletter, press contact, or TestFlight interest form.