The ground stays.The ruins change.

The ruined city is built, on the desktop and in the browser, but it isn't hosted for players yet.The first part of the game is finished. The client streams downtown Vancouver around a first-person player, on the desktop or in a browser, with no install: real streets and terrain, and generated ruined buildings with stairs you can climb to the roof. The browser build generates the same world as the desktop one, byte for byte. Nobody outside the project can try it yet, because it isn't hosted anywhere. Next come other players in the same world, claiming and building, survival, and the wipe cycle. What exists is the groundwork: hexagon addressing for the region, a check that the real map data covers Vancouver, the build gates the browser version depends on, the data types the world is read through, a reader for the Overture map data, a local data store for each baked region, a compact terrain tile format, a reader for Copernicus elevation data, terrain baking and ground-height sampling, the seeded rules the ruin generator starts from, per-block statistics and landmark selection, generated building structure and interiors, the damage pass that turns buildings into ruins, a command that bakes a whole region, the desktop client and its configuration, per-cell trimming that cut the download to a third, streaming of cells around the player on worker threads, flat-shaded meshes for terrain, roads and buildings, stairs inside every multi-storey building, a first-person walking controller with collision, debug overlays and a two-second budget for generating each cell, a smoke-test checklist and run instructions, and a multi-threaded browser build. The look is deliberately plain, flat-coloured geometry, to prove the city reads correctly before any texture work. The skyline at the top of this page is an illustration of the generator's rules.