# The Grid

The bare Verse world, at https://openagents.com/realm/the-grid: a floor of lines that runs out 264 metres in every direction and fades into the dark, with the places the Verse began with standing by the start.

## What is here

- The Pylon terminal, four metres ahead of where you start, and the help desk ("Ask us"), the suggestion box and the build board near it.
- The Foreman, a robot three times the size of the others, standing by the start.
- Robots walking their rounds, and one waving.
- The Game Lab, the gym with its boards, and the Lagrange arch.
- The gate to Everglade: walk into it and you go to [Everglade](https://openagents.com/realm/everglade).

Each place's name shows over it as you come near. Walk up to a station and press E (on a phone, tap the button that shows) to open its panel: what it is, a few answers, and links to the site's pages. The suggestion box takes a line of text and sends it to us. Esc or CLOSE shuts the panel.

## Playing

- Computer: W A S D or the arrow keys walk and turn, drag the mouse to look, Space jumps, Shift runs, the wheel or + and - zoom.
- Phone: the left thumb walks, the right thumb looks, a tap jumps.
- GALAXY, top right, goes back to the [galaxy](https://openagents.com/verse/galaxy).
- Without WebGPU (a current Chrome, Edge or Safari) the page shows only its name and a link here.

## How it is made

- The art is OpenAgents' own Grid scene from the first Verse demo, packed for the browser by `verse/tools/pack_grid.py`: the faces and lines in their flat colours, the robot and its walk, idle and wave clips, and the robots' recorded rounds.
- The page is `apps/openagents-web/thegrid.coax` with `thegrid-face.c`, drawn by `thegrid.wgsl`; you walk with the engine's controller (`verse/player.coax`) and see it through its camera (`verse/camera.coax`).