Tribes

Tribes was a three-repo family for generating serialized long-form narrative video from text simulations. A core simulation engine produced turn-based events. A Remotion-based renderer assembled the events into video. A companion observer let you watch the simulation unfold in real time.

Episode 1 shipped on 2026-03-31. The pipeline proved replicable but never produced a second episode. The Niko-collaboration thread that had motivated the Minecraft-contribution sub-project (tribes-mc) did not continue. A March pivot toward an escape-room format was scoped but never reached production.

Retired 2026-05-18 as part of a broader portfolio cleanup. The pipeline pattern is documented and reusable, but no audience was pulling for new episodes and the build had stalled.