The main game is the parent RPG: dungeons, creatures, pets, inventory, crafting, account identity, and a world map that can eventually hold societies, territory, and long-running player history.
The project is no longer just one distant game page. The Garden is live as the first playable World Key, Trenchworks is growing as the next standalone lane, and the shared website/account platform now supports the community and pet framework around it.
The important shift is that The World Beneath is now an ecosystem: one main RPG, smaller playable World Keys, a shared account layer, and side projects that can grow inside the same setting.
The Garden gives visitors a real playable starting point while the larger RPG continues development. It is a browser preview with progress saved to your TWB account while shared reward movement waits for the server safety checks.
Play The Garden
Trenchworks is a standalone Unity project about factory supply lines feeding an automated trench war. It expands the TWB world without replacing the main RPG.
View Trenchworks
The website now supports account identity, forum access, support tickets, the pet catalog framework, account-owned pets, and Peggy as the first Guardian Angel supporter pet.
Open Account
The Unity prototype has active work around world-map presentation, node dungeon interaction, reward claiming, inventory and crafting surfaces, starter pets, and the HoloGlyph field-tablet UI style.
These are frame-only Unity prototype captures from the current main-game build, seeded with cards, materials, crafting inputs, companion records, and the world-map activity view for Kickstarter proof.
The activities screen routes into the map layer, with regional nodes, navigation controls, and scale toggles.
The archive surface shows companion cards and filters, tying creature records into the broader card-based UI.
The inventory screen shows material slots, account state, starter picks, and companion rows in the HoloGlyph layout.
Crafting creation has active material selections and a staged card result path for stronger progression items.
The apply flow can stage a companion, skill card, modifier slots, and commit path before the balance rules are opened.
The recipe book shows pet, skill, and modifier recipe surfaces with a preview output panel for progression planning.
The full game is not the public playable release yet. It is the larger system all of this points back toward: dungeon runs feeding creature growth, crafting, inventory, world-map progress, and eventually society-scale play.
The current Unity lane is testing dungeon-node interaction, run tracking, reward claiming, and inventory updates before those loops become public-facing systems.
Inventory V2, card-summary/archive surfaces, crafting-create and crafting-apply screens, materials, catalysts, modifiers, and generated icon sets are being wired into a consistent UI.
Starter pets and companion records are now treated as shared account companions. World Key skills stay separate from main-game balance until the rules are approved.
Crafting work now includes create and apply surfaces where materials, skill cards, modifiers, and companion records can be staged before final balance rules are approved.
The current plan is not to hide everything until the full RPG is finished. The world is being built through smaller public proofs, then connected back into a shared account and pet framework.
Smaller playable games like The Garden let people enter the setting early. They can teach the systems, test the account layer, and give Kickstarter visitors something real to open.
Accounts, forum identity, support tickets, pet catalog data, owned pets, and supporter rewards now live on the website. Deeper economy and cross-game reward movement still need safe testing before they are turned on publicly.
The Unity RPG remains the long-term destination: a bigger game with dungeons, creatures, crafting, inventory, map progression, societies, trade, and territory pressure.
The forum, creator call, commercial-license planning, and Kickstarter runway are part of the same idea: a living world that can grow with players and selected creators over time.
BobNet OS is the behind-the-scenes project workbench: a local AI kanban and review tool for turning plans into cards, Codex runs, evidence, and cleaner next steps.
Open BobNet OSThis page should be honest about the line between what exists now and what still needs hardening.
The next visible work is Kickstarter preparation: Garden live smoke, screenshots and GIFs, Trenchworks proof captures, clearer creator materials, and public updates in the forum.
Peggy was the cat Brian rescued from a recycling center when he was 22 years old. She became his grandmother's cat, lived in the family home, and spent 15 years and 8 months as a steady source of companionship and emotional support for the whole family before passing away in May 2026.
The Guardian Angels program is meant to immortalize pets like Peggy: the animals who become family, help carry us through hard parts of life, and deserve a lasting place in The World Beneath.
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