Observed arrival · 2026-09-27
The Turning links a planned trilogy to a playable game
A speculative-fiction project connecting three novels across distant eras with a free, short browser game set in their shared world.
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- Readers of mythic, cross-era speculative fiction
- Worth noticing
- The author says each book chapter will end with a five-glyph code tied to future lore pages shared with the game.
Field notes
The game’s loop combines directional digging with a glyph-ring puzzle: clues come from finds, and a hint costs glass. Players can keep a memory as Ink, wash it for salt and glass, or look ahead at the cost of winding the Wheel; the page gives a 10–20-minute run time and says it works offline without an account. The author labels the covers interim and the landscape paintings AI-generated placeholders pending commissioned art.
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