INFINITY: world guide

Vision

A social fantasy world shaped by exploration, craft, and shared imagination. Walk through a persistent world, improve skills through play, complete undertakings, trade with other lamp-bearers, and build a personal Realm.

Build Order

1. Tile grid + click-to-move pathfinding + camera; turn the current room into a walkable hub.
2. XP/level engine + first skill (gathering) with world resource nodes + inventory bag.
3. Crafting + Construction skill; craftable build pieces.
4. Player-owned buildable Realms with place, rotate, remove, save, and visiting.
5. Quest system + genie quest-giver (OpenRouter free) + starter quest chain + quest log.
6. Polish: isometric art/lighting/ambient motion, avatar walk + emote animation, more zones, deeper character creator, sound/ambience toggle, mobile excellence, empty/loading/error states, performance.

Hard Rules

• 100% original characters, places, systems, assets, names, and lore.
• All in-world AI on OpenRouter free models only (:free chain); never paid, never another provider.
• Degrade gracefully to warm canned lines on 429/failure so UX never hard-errors.
• The server owns movement, rewards, inventory, ownership, trades, and permanent state.
• Private chat is ephemeral and in-world AI receives only the minimum safe gameplay context.