FIELD NOTES · WORK IN PROGRESS
A safe town. A dangerous expedition. Something worth bringing home.
Khaotek’s native prototype connects authoritative combat, visible equipment and persistent possessions in a working town-to-dungeon loop. Here is what exists, what needs proving, and where the project is headed.
Resume a world-bound character, inspect equipment and visit the field medic.
Travel through connected industrial rooms, a main route and an optional branch.
Fight server-resolved encounters, collect confirmed loot and equip what you find.
Bring committed possessions back to town and resume with them after restart.
“Foundation” means implemented and locally validated in the recorded native build. These systems are still being refined; the next steps are not release commitments.
Independent weapon hands, directional melee, travelling pistol rounds, stamina, shields and a brief melee parry window. Enemy navigation and threat are server-resolved.
Broader abilities and enemy variety, encounter readability and final balance.
Persistent item ownership, compatible equipment slots, a paper doll and visible gear. Inspect, swap, sort, drop or confirm destruction of your own items.
Rarity, rolled properties, enhancements, trade and a sustainable economy.
A safe Town Concourse with treatment, residents, service facades and a working expedition gate. Town weapons cannot damage players or residents.
Usable interiors, housing, shops, schedules and cumulative story changes.
Three to five authored room modules, a main route, an optional branch and return gates. The world’s seeded layout stays stable across startup.
Formal party entry, selected difficulty, multiple instances and run lifecycle policies.
A headless server owns outcomes. Clients predict movement and receive corrections. World-bound identities, loot ownership and committed possessions support the return loop.
Internet deployment, production accounts, host administration and broader human testing.
Isometric, cinematic, third- and first-person views share the same encounter. Visible gear, an imported prop/weapon fixture, a separate live director and local actor replay are in place.
An imported humanoid rig, production assets and readability across camera extremes.
An early story idea about restoring water infrastructure in a damaged industrial town.
The concept explores how individual and group contributions could help residents and improve the wider community. It is a starting point for story design; the gameplay loop has not yet been fleshed out.
Objectives, solo and group participation, consequences for the town, character credit, rewards and follow-up stories. Specific routes, completion rules and persistent outcomes remain open.
CURRENT INVESTIGATION
Finish the forty-enemy investigation: reduce entry stalls, review combat with a human player and prove the full durable loot and respawn loop before raising density.
PRESENTATION FOUNDATION
Validate an imported character rig, readable production assets and loading/cleanup around existing gate transitions. Elevation needs shared gameplay rules before it becomes traversable.
STORY DESIGN
Develop the water-restoration story concept. Work through objectives, solo and group contributions, town consequences, character credit and rewards before committing to a gameplay loop.
SYSTEM DESIGN
Resolve formal party admission, participation credit, difficulty and reward rules before extending the current shared-world expedition foundation.
Housing and shops. Equipment enhancements and trade. Consensual arenas. Broader world stories. Public mods and distribution. These remain future work, with scope and supporting decisions still open.
A snapshot from the supplied development brief. Local validation is evidence of a foundation, not a public hosting or performance guarantee.
The brief records 230 graphics-enabled unit tests, one inventory integration test and independent headless-server checks passing. Two-client local testing includes simulated 60/120 ms inbound latency and 5% packet loss.
Density investigation has reached forty enabled AI actors. Entry stalls, close-view readability and a complete credited loot/respawn/town-return sequence at that density remain unresolved. No player cap, minimum hardware or final FPS target has been accepted.
Technology and the supernatural share this world.
The next expedition is still being built.