Statecraft: Israel

King's Gambit is a browser-based 3D chess game in which sculpted, rigged character pieces from the Ivory Kingdom, Sun Empire, or Grande Armée march, attack, and dissolve during cinematic captures. It supports standard chess rules—including castling, en passant, promotion, checkmate, stalemate, repetition, the fifty-move rule, and insufficient-material draws—through chess.js, while a Web Worker search engine provides the computer opponent. The game is built with Vite, React, TypeScript, and three.js; it is a static site with no backend or account requirement.

A browser-based first-person shooter built with Three.js r180 and WebGL2. It uses procedurally generated textures, meshes, animations, and Web Audio synthesis rather than external art or sound files; its systems include a market-street world with enterable interiors, custom physics and character movement, procedural weapons and ballistics, GPU visual effects, navmesh-based enemy AI with perception and cover behavior, and a DOM/CSS HUD. The repository also provides a development and testing harness: headless-Chromium screenshot capture, isolated reproducible shotsets with pixel-diff gating, scripted playtesting, and a gameplay profiler that reports frame-time distributions and attributes hitches to per-frame WebGL program compilation. The project is run with npm and has Three.js as its only runtime dependency.

OpenTIE is an open-source, cross-platform reimplementation of Star Wars: TIE Fighter for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It runs original game data natively and supports the 1995 Collector's CD-ROM and 1998 Windows releases, allowing their menus, cutscenes, flight simulation, 3D assets, and soundtrack to be selected independently. The recommended configuration combines the 1995 presentation and adaptive iMUSE music with the 1998 flight simulation and 3D assets; a complete installation of at least one supported edition is required, and OpenTIE does not include the original game content. It provides classic and modern graphics modes, with the latter adding high-resolution rendering, advanced lighting, shadows, ambient occlusion, bloom, motion blur, HDR, and supported anti-aliasing and upscaling. Its flight simulation can update at up to 240 Hz, while original timing modes remain available, and it supports configurable modern gamepads and joysticks. The project remains under active development and distributes platform packages through GitHub Releases.

The Long Silence is a browser-based procedural space-exploration game. It generates stars, planets, ring systems, nebulae, and derelicts from a seed rather than using downloadable art assets; the player pilots the Pale Seeker, charts systems, scans discoveries, lands on worlds, and attunes to Resonators across the game’s seven-system objective. It uses WebGL 2, handwritten GLSL, a floating origin, and a logarithmic depth buffer to represent systems spanning millions of world units while keeping the ship near the origin. Planets are baked into cubemaps containing albedo and terrain-height data, with runtime shaders sampling those textures for normals and lighting. Atmospheres use single-scattering raymarches, while GPU auto-exposure and a hand-built post-processing chain provide bloom, anamorphic streaks, god rays, lens ghosts, tone mapping, grain, dithering, and FXAA. The project is developed as a JavaScript package with npm scripts for local development and production builds; the latter produces a static bundle in the dist/ directory. Its renderer adjusts resolution dynamically between 0.62× and 2× to target frame rate rather than removing visual features.

PGSimCity is an independent, non-commercial educational visualization of PostgreSQL internals: an explorable 3D city that represents a PostgreSQL cluster and lets users inspect, walk through, and disrupt simulated database scenarios. It illustrates effects such as checkpoint-related latency spikes, long-running transactions that keep tables bloated, and the cost of synchronous_commit. The city is a scaled model rather than a PostgreSQL emulator; PostgreSQL source code does not run in the 3D scene, and its quantities are adjusted for visualization. Its optional Query flow and Machine can run PGlite, an in-memory PostgreSQL compiled to WebAssembly. The project targets PostgreSQL 18 and provides keyboard- and text-first routes for its lessons, while noting that the first-person 3D scene has no complete nonvisual equivalent.