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Strat-Dom-3D · early design

May 2026 · ludic substrate origin

Design sketches for the playable substrate. Before HP, before the simultaneous-reveal Warplan, before the toroidal board — the original game was Star Trek 3D Chess with deception cards.

The torus arrived when the design question shifted from "how do we move pieces?" to "how do we model feedback that has no edge to retreat to?" — the same question the rest of the framework is asking.