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TARTARIA

A flow-state world of living light and sound for desktop and PC VR: half sound bath, half adventure, like lucid dreaming while awake. Real-time global illumination runs live in the headset, with a real day and night and weather. Keep crystal bee hives, play a pinball table that melts its sanctum into liquid light, ride whales between Atlantis and the lighthouse, and bring the rain that grows the world back. Nonviolent by design: nothing takes damage, and the world answers attention, not force.

Fact sheet

Title

TARTARIA

Developer

Dream Resin Studios

Creative director

Kyle Piorkowski

Platforms

Windows PC: desktop and PC VR (OpenXR, controllers and hand tracking)

Engine

Unreal Engine 5.8: Lumen global illumination, Nanite, virtual shadow maps

Genre

Nonviolent open-world exploration

In development since

August 2026

Built so far

3,600+ commits, 90+ packaged builds and 195,000 lines of game code (counted November 2, 2026)

Release

To be announced. The Steam page and the Kickstarter open soon.

How it is made

Tartaria is directed by one creative director, Kyle Piorkowski, with AI agents writing the code and tools under written rules. Every change is checked in the running engine, and he judges the look and the feel himself, in the headset and on the desktop. Every game frame on this site and in the trailer is rendered in real time in Unreal Engine; the bow and the harp are shown as studio renders of the game's own models. No AI-generated pictures are used.

Video

• Trailer: youtu.be/OFaKjh6bQtw
• Behind the scenes, fourteen making-of films (60 to 155 s each): watch them here
• The Honey Thief, an animated short from the same hives: the-honey-thief.vercel.app

Stills

From the game, October 2026. Open a still for the full-size file; free to use in coverage of Tartaria.

• The title screen: the lighthouse beam turning behind the 3D title at night
• Lightning strikes beside the tower on a storm night
• The Forgotten Titan, sleeping in the mountain
• Aurora over the sea and the glowing mushroom shore
• Swimming with the dolphins above Atlantis
• The Aether Ribbon windmill above the wheat fields
• A storm night at the World Tree
• A domed Tartarian city above the sea
• The Star Forge pinball table
• Aurora over the lake pavilion
• A garden rotunda in the morning light
• The Golden Phoenix Bow
• The Tartarian harp

Contact

Press, creators and partners: liquidlightproject@gmail.com