Awakening...
ARK-Eden-UE45 · Command Bridge
Awake after 1000 years on a decaying megaship. Choose your mutation path, race the 72-hour reactor doom timer, or die trying.
Over 1000 years ago, the ARK-Eden-UE45 launched as one of humanity's last hopes. Now the reactor is failing. The AI "Eden" awakens you from cryo to help save what remains. But Malcolm the Scientist has his own plans for the ship and its specimens.
Every decision ripples. The ship decays faster the longer you take. Enemies mutate. The final question: What — and who — is worth saving when time runs out?
Real-time countdown. The ship becomes more dangerous as hours drain.
Genic, Cyber, or Armour. Death evolves you — permadeath with progression.
Procedural decay. Sections remember your actions across runs.
Deaf-friendly via pressure/vibration audio. Never paywalled.
Building immersive worlds through story, play & imagination
A marriage of AI & human creativity
An Australian creative studio dedicated to building rich, original worlds across novels, games, and film. After more than 30 years developing the Exstinton universe, the vision is now stepping into the light.
"Developing immersive worlds through story, play, and imagination — turning decades of imagination into shared worlds people can step into, explore, and help shape."
Firefly Medium combines deep, long-term world-building with modern creative tools. Founded by Ryan Harris — neurodivergent creator using AI as a dedicated creative partner while maintaining full creative control.
The studio operates as a sole trader with a long-term goal of growing into a small creative studio producing high-quality original content.
The Exstinton universe — a dark post-apocalyptic world with deep lore, complex characters, and interconnected stories across every medium.
All projects exist within the same universe, allowing characters, themes, and world-building to flow naturally between formats.
Original storytelling that feels emotionally grounded, atmospheric, and immersive. Progress over perfection — shipping excellent, self-contained experiences that prove the larger platform thesis.
Open to meaningful conversations with writers, artists, developers, and fellow creators interested in original worlds.
Exstinton · Book 1
The last great underground city of Australia — safe, warm, and deeply human… yet quietly cracking under the weight of its own secrets and the growing Sickness.
Told entirely from Kevin's POV. In an 800-year-old underground city carved into an old Australian gold mine, a drone sighting sparks hope of life returning to the surface — but the journey to find it will cost everything.
Warm community life in The Deep. The Gathering festival. Radio contact with "the Wizard." Council crackdown. A desperate escape into the scorched wasteland — where hope slowly drains and Kevin makes the ultimate sacrifice.
~180k people. Bustling market, festivals, community heart. Warm and welcoming.
Power & water hub around Mother Lake. Calm, vital, quietly watchful.
Deepest mining section to 1.6 km. Raw, industrial, tough. Hot and claustrophobic.
Recreation & black-market hub. Colourful, creative, slightly rebellious.
Bioluminescent fungus is the backbone of The Deep — food, lighting, medicine, materials, air filtration. The Fungus Choir brightens and pulses with human presence and emotion. Hundreds of cultivated strains exist. The Sickness Strain is the current major hidden threat.
The main surface connection. A reinforced cave chamber behind the massive blast door — military checkpoint, trading post, temple entrance. Touch the frame and whisper "Thank you for letting me back in." Never feels truly safe.