The Growth Yard · the hub · playable · v12

A mall at the edge of the sky.

Deck 1 of the Growth Yard concourse, on a planet under a gas giant. You fly in from the docks, down a glass promenade of storefronts, and land at the mouth of the Growth Yard Hub, a grand hall under a vault of trusses and the great window. Three screens hung over the lane cycle through every member: their own clips and stills if they have uploaded any, a card drawn from the registry if they have not. Stand under them and press E to watch at full size and be walked to that member’s door. Anyone can walk it; a unit of your own comes with the Discord. Sixty units; the claimed ones come from a registry file the hub owner edits, and each door opens the member’s own page in a sandboxed frame, or one of twelve built-in demo rooms until real pages exist. The eight two-storey suites lining the Hub are the Court: suite 1 is the owner’s, the rest go to the month’s most active members, and each carries its name in lights and a screen with its member’s own work. Beside every claimed door a guestbook stands on a post: one tap signs it, and the number over it is how many people have. Inside, each game takes its own stamps. One menu holds every member and every game, your yard and your settings; your passport stamp for every book you sign sits on each person; and the front window that goes to the month’s top reviewer. Walk it with W, A and D, drag to look, E at a door or a book, Esc for the menu: the people, the games, your yard and settings. On a phone, one thumb and the Menu button.

The Growth Yard

THE GROWTH YARDTHE HUBARRIVING · DECK 1 · CLICK OR PRESS ANY KEY TO SKIP

Click or tap where you want to go · W/S walk, hold Shift to run, A/D turn, Z/C sidestep, drag to look around · E at a door · Esc or M for the menu · P hides the HUD · ⤢ plays fullscreen · on a phone the left thumb walks and the right thumb looks · Esc leaves a room

What you are looking at

Try this

Click the stage, hold W and walk the promenade until it opens into the Hub. Doors slide open as you pass claimed units; the city is outside the glass the whole way.
Esc opens the menu: People lists who is here and every member with a door; type a name, pick one, Walk me draws a trail to their door. E opens it. E at the book on the post beside a door signs that builder’s guestbook: a stamp is enough. Inside, each game has a card under it for its own stamps. B is your passport.
In the Hub, stand under the screens and press E: the clip at full size, the line-up, Play for the member’s game and Walk me to the room. Suite 1, the first door on your left, is the owner’s screening room: its screens play the owner’s game, E at the big one plays the trailer with sound. The eight suites are the Court; the storefronts on the rows count outward from it.
The ring of panels round the tree is the Hub’s board: what is on, who is here, the new doors, what shipped. Games in the menu has every game on every shelf; Play starts one from there.
⤢ plays fullscreen, P hides the HUD for a screenshot. On a phone the left thumb walks and the right thumb looks.

What is real

The world, the walking and the collision. The registry: data/members.json decides who holds which unit and what the door opens, data/events.json fills the board and the ticker. Real units open the member’s URL in an iframe with sandbox="allow-scripts allow-forms", so nothing inside can touch the hub. The directory, search and pods. The twelve demo rooms. The reel: media[] on a member’s row (files in media/, added with tools/add-media.py) plays on the marquee and in their room. The guestbooks, the stamps on each game and your passport work, but what you sign lives in your browser until a backend exists; the notes already in the books are samples.

What is stubbed

Presence (the counter is the walkers), the credits ledger and the monthly re-seating of the Court, Discord login and the /claim-room bot, uploads straight from a Discord channel to the screens, reports to a mod channel. Each is designed with its exact API shape in docs/BACKEND.md; the page already talks to a single adapter, so wiring them is a swap, not a rewrite.

Gallery

Straight out of the engine, no filters. Click one to open it full size.

3D view at arrival: the transit gate behind you with its sealed doors, docks either side, the glass promenade running to the Hub.

Down the promenade: storefronts on both walls, blade signs for the claimed units, the city outside the glass above the facades, the Hub ahead.

Turned toward the left wall: @austin’s unit lit and open, light spilling onto the floor, neon reflected in the tiles.

The mouth of the Hub from the promenade: the marquee glowing at the end of the hall, the wing signs either side.

Where you land in the Growth Yard Hub: three screens hung over the lane showing one member’s game, ribbons of member names along both balconies, the holo tree and the great window beyond.

Past the marquee: the holo tree on its dais under the oculus, the city through the great window, the ribbons on the balconies.

The great window: the gas giant and the city outside.

Looking back at the entrance wall: a roster tile for every unit either side of the GROWTH YARD sign, the events board and what just shipped below, the hall you came in by.

Inside unit 20, a screening room: the member’s clip playing on the big screen, a still either side, sofas facing it, framed stills on the wall.

The promenade’s glass wall: the city, the skyrail and the planet above the storefronts.

What is in this build

Outside the glass

A banded gas giant with storm ovals, tilted rings and two orbiting moons, drifting nebulae, meteors, a comet, an aurora. A far city of spires, domes, cranes, a stadium and arcologies; a mid city with searchlights, sky bridges, scrolling billboards and a skyrail with a station; a near highway with car lights both ways and two landing pads. Shuttles, couriers, freighters and police drones at three depths, a capital ship every few minutes, a dropship that lands, and the odd ion storm.

On the deck

Eight facade materials, three door types, awnings, banners, vertical neon, cables and vents, a lamp and light pool per unit. A floor material per wing. Two atria with a holo globe, the holo tree, lifts to Deck 2, three food stalls and a noodle bar. Two docks with a landing shuttle, luggage drones, a live departures board and customs gates. Twelve claimed units with their own window scenes and marquees.

Now in 3D

The hall and the Hub are a real three.js space from the same pixel art: the facade strips are the walls with the glass above them left clear so the city shows through, the floor carries baked light pools under every lamp and door and a reflection of the neon, people are upright billboards with name tags drawn at a fixed size, doors slide open and spill their colour, every claimed unit hangs a blade sign you can read from the walk, and the Hub sits under a glass vault with trusses and the planet overhead. The outside is a seamless panorama of the living vista. No lights, no shadows, a couple of hundred draw calls, so it runs on a phone.

Life

Forty members in nine body types with coats, hoods, suits, androids, a maintenance bot, a cat and a kid. Four-frame walks, window shopping, pairs chatting in icon bubbles, shoppers who go in and out of doors, a noodle queue with a vendor, a busker, benches, patrol, delivery and ad drones, floor cleaners. An arrival cinematic and a photo mode.