DREAMLAND

An ongoing research project

A terminal.
A world to explore.

An ordinary terminal opens onto an LLM-emulated world. A scenario sets the direction; DREAMLAND builds and maintains the detail as you explore.

Research & engineering by Andrew Stein

Find your way in

FOLLOW YOUR CURIOSITY

Where will you start?

EXPLORE

Step into a world

Follow a story through familiar commands. Every setting includes a beginner-friendly quickstart.

Choose a setting CREATE

Build and guide worlds

Use Spiritguide to shape a scenario, save a profile, or guide a running session.

Meet Spiritguide UNDERSTAND

Look inside the engine

Follow the command loop, state model, enrichment agents, and the decisions behind them.

Explore the engineering EVALUATE

Examine the evidence

Browse graphs, observed failures, and methods from world-building and live simulation studies.

Read the research AUTOMATE

Test through API & MCP

Drive sessions, compare configurations, and connect model behavior with recorded state and traces.

See the testing workflow WATCH & READ

Find the presentation

A place for the slides and recording, with links into the deeper technical notes.

Presentation resources
How changing models, prices, and speed tiers reshape the project

FIVE STARTING POINTS

Choose your world.

Field notes & quickstarts
Morrowbasket Markets Common Ground Colonyship Muirbank Alpha Marigold: The Glacier Protocol The Last Dial-Up ISP
SSH connection instructions & session recording

ABOUT THE RESEARCHER

Andrew Stein

Author & researcher, DREAMLAND

I'm exploring how language models can sustain believable computing worlds. DREAMLAND is where I share the engineering decisions, experiments, and questions that emerge.

LinkedIn ↗GitHub ↗Source release forthcoming

With thanks to Langfuse for session tracing and model-call observability. How it supports the research ↗