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About the project
TREADBOUND is an independent solo roleplaying game for Windows, set among people who live and travel on continent-sized Wanderers. Each new scene begins from the changes your choices made.
The creator
Raymond Mills is TREADBOUND's creator and standing Authority of Record. He directs its setting, game design, software, and editorial review, and is accountable for what the project presents as TREADBOUND. Years spent as both a Game Master and a player are the creative ground behind the project.
Current project state
TREADBOUND is a Windows prototype in private testing. Each Founder Alpha build is installed and walked by a player before its repairs count, and what a walk finds becomes the next build's repairs. The product and this website remain under heavy development and will change frequently. It is not released, for sale, or open to public play.
Status owner: Raymond Mills. Reviewed when a playable build changes a public product claim or availability status.
See the current development record →Why build it?
A good Game Master carries locations, people, rules, secrets, history, pacing, and preparation the group may never discover. TREADBOUND grew from respect for that immense work and the wish to let the person who usually performs it enjoy a campaign from one character's uncertain point of view.
Creative origin
TREADBOUND did not begin with Raymond asking an AI to invent a game. He created its premise, world, Wanderers, Chronicles, Volumes, Lineages, Practices, terminology, rules, and governing design principles. AI is how he made TREADBOUND happen. It is not how he came up with TREADBOUND.
The work
The Player's Handbook, Tread Master's Guide, and Bestiary approach the same shared world from the human player, AI Tread Master, and ecological sides of play. The Guide is the AI's operating reference, published so players can inspect its discipline; their online editions preserve the complete working text and corresponding approved artwork.
The process
TREADBOUND and its setting remain the proprietary work of its creator. Development has included collaboration with Anthropic's Claude and Claude Code; OpenAI's ChatGPT, Codex, and ChatGPT Cowork; and Google's Gemini, under the creator's direction and review.
Read the complete AI and creative provenance disclosure →Contact
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