07 / FIELD NOTES

Notes from
the station.

Ideas, decisions and observations from the work of building a story engine that stays close to the person playing it.

THE NOTES

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A new face for a local-first story engine

The Worldlines rebrand gives the FPV site a language of its own: branching story lines, a single accent color, and a hero that finally says what the product is.

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Why FPV runs the narrator on your computer

Local inference changes the relationship between a story, its memory and the service that delivers it. This is the case for keeping the narrator close.

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Local models for storytelling in 2026

A practical way to think about model size, RAM and the different kinds of voice a local narrator can bring to a story.

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From mobile to desktop: the FPV rewrite

What changed when FPV moved toward a free, local-first desktop app instead of carrying forward an older product shape.

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What your story archive means

Story State, Codex, canon and project export are not just storage features. Together, they are what lets a long story remember you.

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START WITH THE PRODUCT

The best note
is a first move.

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