Home

LULL

Welcome to the LULL wiki!

Working title — alts: HUSH / VIGIL / SOMNUS

A psychological horror game for iPhone that stops behaving like software. Built to be played once. Alone. In the dark.

Not "a scary game on a phone" — the scary thing is the phone. It's in your hand, it has a camera on your face and a mic in your room, it knows it's late, and it can reach you after you've closed it.

Inspired by the spirit of Hideo Kojima's OD: fear as the subject, the blur between game and film, dread over gore, and the unknown — at a scale a small team can actually build.

LULL is solo/small, open source (MIT), and currently at v0.1 — the vertical slice: one fear mechanic, THE EYE, executed end to end, consent-gated, and speaking in its own narrative voice.

The one rule

Horror by permission, not violation.

Every sensor LULL touches is opt-in, explained, and revocable. Photos, contacts, location, and health data are not just declined — they are designed out of the codebase. See The Safety Invariant for exactly what that does and doesn't guarantee.

Wiki contents

Page	What's in it
Concept & Design	The horror premise, why iPhone, the fear-mechanics list, and the consent-first philosophy
The Safety Invariant	The honest account of what's compiler-enforced vs. what's convention
Architecture	LULLKit vs. the app target, the state machines, how the pieces compose
Building & Running	XcodeGen setup, running THE EYE on device, swift test
Atmosphere (experiment)	The SpriteKit prototype on experiment/spritekit-atmosphere / PR #1
THE MIRROR (ideation)	Design notes for a possible second mechanic — not built, not merged
Roadmap / Ideas	What the repo's own status notes imply is next — marked tentative

Status at a glance

• LULLKit (the shared Swift package): consent ledger, the EyeSession state machine, and the Atmosphere narration layer — 16 unit tests, green from commit one.
• app/: a SwiftUI + AVFoundation iPhone app implementing THE EYE, consent-gated end to end.
• server/: not started yet — the planned Vapor "haunt" backend is design-only (see Roadmap / Ideas).

License: MIT.