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Session · KRS-2847
49.2827° N · 123.1207° W
Depth 00.000 km
00:00:00 UTC
Build 6A2F · live
FPS 60
Neural Sync
82%
Power
64%
Anomaly · null
Players online · 04,812
Persistent world · Kyrelian Cluster
Telemetry · NOMINAL
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First Descent
Season 02 · Dispatch 017

Worlds
That Remember
You.

KRYOS is a ten-person studio building real-time, persistent worlds. We make games that watch back — systems that track your choices through seasons, lobbies, and lifetimes.
EST.2019 / Vancouver
TEAM10 divinors
CURRENTPROJECT HALCYON
SCROLL
SYSTEM ONLINE サイバー NEURAL LINK ACTIVE PERSISTENT WORLD STATE ENGAGED データ SIGNAL STRENGTH: MAXIMUM
Concept Art
The Kyrelian Cluster
Panoramic world overview — persistent state across every surface, every signal
01 / Manifesto

We believe a game is not a product. It is a place. A place can be left, and returned to, and changed by the people who walk through it. We build engines that hold memory. We build cameras that hold patience. We build audio that holds silence. Everything else is pixels.

0titles
Shipped · 2019→
0M players
Lifetime peak
0k fps avg
Across platforms
0awards
IGF · GDC · TGA
Concept Art
The Persistent Engine
Memory architecture — every choice encoded, every world state preserved
ARCHIVE ACCESS GRANTED 記録 LOADING WORLD STATE 48 TITLES SHIPPED ゲーム MEMORY INTACT
02 / Selected Works

Nine worlds. Ten thousand hours.
Every one of them remembered.

H
● LiveCo-opPC · Console
001 / HALCYON
Project
Halcyon
Persistent Sci-Fi Drifter · S2 Live
N
◇ DevSolo
002
Nightfold
Narrative Horror · Q4
Key Art
Project Halcyon — Key Art
Bioluminescent alien jungle meets chrome megacity — season 2 key visual
B
● LiveOnline
003
Blueshift
Asymmetric PvP · 32-Player
P
● LiveRoguelike
004
Paraline
Branching Roguelike · 1-4 Players
E
▲ ArchiveIGF 2023
005
Echo//Form
Sonic Exploration · Awarded
L
● LiveOpen WorldCross-Platform
006 / LONG RUN
The Long Run
Open-World Racer · S1 Live
Atmosphere
Nightfold — Atmosphere
Noir horror in neon rain — every shadow remembers what passed through it
03 / The Engine

A stack we built because
nobody was going to.

[01]

Real-Time Cinema

A proprietary render pipeline forked from WebGL and shipped native. GLSL-driven lighting, volumetric fog, deferred scene graph, 60fps floor.

  • Volumetric & atmospheric FX
  • Ray-marched materials
  • WebXR / Vulkan parity
[02]

Persistent Worldbuilding

Procedural terrain seeded by memory. Every world remembers its players — weather systems, economies, and wildlife respond to history.

  • Long-form world state
  • Emergent narrative systems
  • LIDAR-sourced geometry
[03]

Online / Multiplayer

Medusa — our in-house backend — handles asynchronous, multi-cluster state. Thousands of simultaneous players, zero desync, one URL.

  • Firestore / Realtime DB
  • Rollback netcode
  • Matchmaking & anti-cheat
[04]

Audio & Kinetics

Spatial audio written in GLSL-synced shaders. Composers work inside the build. Every footstep, rain tick, and heartbeat is procedural.

  • Wwise + custom runtime
  • Adaptive musical systems
  • Haptic feedback design
Studio
The Studio — Vancouver
Ten workstations, ten divinors — where persistent worlds are forged
04 / Transmissions

Dispatches from
the workshop floor.

2026.04.12
dispatch
Halcyon Season 2 goes live — new biome, new weapon class, and a dog that follows you home
2026.03.02
press
KRYOS featured in Edge Magazine · Issue 398 — "the quiet studio that is teaching games how to remember"
2026.02.20
dispatch
Open-sourcing plume-audio — our zero-dependency spatial audio runtime, MIT licensed
2026.01.11
dispatch
We're hiring two senior graphics engineers, one narrative designer, one audio director — Vancouver & remote
2025.12.04
press
Echo//Form wins the IGF Excellence in Audio award · San Francisco
Concept Art
Signal Acquired
The communication hub — where every transmission finds its frequency
SIGNAL ACQUIRED 接続 CHANNEL OPEN TRANSMIT YOUR COORDINATES 座標 WE ARE LISTENING

Come build with us,
or come play against us.

Studio
417 East Cordova Street
Vancouver · BC · V6A 1L6
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