Project status · updated 13 Oct 2026
Writing Chapter 11
Every chapter is drafted, read by three test readers, revised and only then published here. Episode videos follow the chapters.
Season 1: Ignition · 9 arcs · 2029 – 2058
Chapters written
Chapters animated
How each chapter is made
Story bible
The world, its rules and its people.
Season outline
Every arc and chapter, in order.
Draft and test readers
Each chapter is drafted, then read by three simulated test readers: one reads for pace, one for depth, one hunts for plot holes. Then it is revised and read again.
Visual beat sheet
The chapter as a sequence of shots.
Animated episode
Line art and light, with narration and an original score.
Roadmap
Release history →- Done
The original drift
Twelve future eras as a dot-and-line screensaver. The world that started it all.
- Done
A History of the Future
The main film: 2029 to the year 10,000 in two minutes and twenty seconds.
- Done
Season 1 trailer
Ignition, 1 min 30 s.
- Done
Reverie II screensaver
Thirty minutes of drift for Windows and Mac, and in the browser.
- Done
Chapters 1–10
Iceland, San Francisco, the Atacama, Arizona, Saigon, Geneva. 2029 to the first block of the Ledger in 2033.
- Done
Episodes 1–5
Animated companions to the first five chapters.
- In progress
Chapter 11 and beyond
Season 1 continues toward forty chapters.
- Next
Episodes 6–10
Mae, Noor, Bao, the Dark and Geneva, in dots and lines.
- Next
Phone themes
Wallpapers and live themes for Android and iPhone.
- Later
Reader choices
Decision points where readers vote on which way the story turns.
- Later
Season 2
The next era.