You wake up in the aurora and the world is very quiet.

Cool Wake runs in your browser.

Cool Wake is a WebXR experience. Open the link on a modern browser and you're in. Bring a headset if you have one — or don't. The prototype is designed to be walked through both ways.

• The aurora A living sky. Everything else is oriented against it.
• The horizon Van Gogh brushstrokes borrowed at the edge of the world. Meant to be walked toward, not reached.
• Polaris The amber anchor overhead. If you lose your bearing, look up.
• The Wake The path something already walked before you got here. Follow it, don't.

Helios 1 is a place, before it's a game.

Helios 1 is the studio's ongoing worldbuilding project. Cool Wake is the first playable slice — the piece we can hand you today. There is more of the world written down than has been built; there is more built than has been shipped.

1. The world is bigger than the demo.Cool Wake is one location. The world is many.
2. The demo is not the pitch.It's not a trailer. It's a room you can be in.
3. The world is written, then built.Fiction is the source. Code is downstream.

1. Small.The scale is intentional. Nothing is loud.
2. Slow.Time works differently under the aurora.
3. Awake.You are the one thing here that was not already here.

The prototype shows its seams.

Helios 1 is not a finished product. Cool Wake is a slice, dated and versioned, with its notes visible. If you want to see the wiring, we don't hide it.

Send us a note about Helios 1.

Playtest reports are welcome. Press inquiries about the world or the prototype are welcome. Collaboration proposals get the slowest reply — we mean well by it.