Each protocol generates an alien physics from scratch: 5–6 entity classes (colored dots) bound by hidden laws — forces, contact reactions, and lifecycles. Every law is unknown at start. Read the motion, infer the laws, exploit them to hit the objective before the deadline without breaching the constraint.
Dots attract, flee, chase, orbit. On contact they may consume, convert, fuse, or emit. Some self-replicate or decay. A dimmed dot is in its post-reaction cooldown. Events flash a ring at the contact point.
Contact & lifecycle laws confirm into the DOSSIER after you witness them 3× inside the ring around your cursor. Force laws reveal through ECHO experiments, or buy any law with SCAN.
1 DEPLOY — buy one dot of the selected class at ask, place it.
Repeated buys of one class get pricier.
2 EXTRACT — sell the nearest dot at bid (1.5s cooldown; cursor
ticks re-converge as it recharges).
3 ECHO — a phantom dot of the selected class; nearby dots react
through the hidden force law, so it both herds and teaches.
⇧-click = plain repulsor.
4 SCAN — click a dot for its lifecycle; drag dot→dot for the pair
law. Cost escalates per scan.
SPACE freezes the field to plan. Tools still work while paused, but moves are queued (shown as ghost markers) and fire in order the instant you resume — so you can choreograph a sequence against a still frame. Credits aren't spent until they execute.
Q / E select class · SPACE pause/resume · R retry seed · N new protocol · ? hold for this manual
Protocols are seeded. Share the 0x… hash to hand someone the exact same universe.