Fractal Reality is the studio of Ashman Roonz: independent game development, philosophy and ethics consulting, hands-on AI courses, and ongoing research into the Circumpunct Framework; one structure and one flow for parts, wholes, and the center which connects them.
Consulting, writing, and live conversation for teams and individuals working through hard questions: how to act under uncertainty, how to disagree without distortion, how to keep a culture honest as it scales.
Our games studio. We build playable systems that take physics, mechanics, and meaning seriously; multiplayer-first, web-native, and shipped under our own flag.
Bring-your-own-device, in-person classes. Bring a laptop, tablet, or phone and leave with something real you built. Methodology, not magic; AI as a tool for thinking clearly, not outsourcing it.
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A Roblox tunnel shooter: fly through procedurally generated tunnels, blast the monsters that swarm you, and grind to unlock increasingly ridiculous projectiles (ducks, toilet paper, rubber chickens). Mobile-first, co-op or solo.
A touch-first toy-game: your finger is a growing cell sloshing through thousands of fluid goop particles. Graze slowly to feed, evolve cilia, vortices, spikes and tentacles, and drain procedurally generated biomes — solo, or in a peer-to-peer room with friends. Pinch to zoom.
Forty-plus live experiments behind Last Ship Sailing: WebGPU fluids and volumetric clouds, matter engines where rock, water, and vapor share one substrate, emergence worlds, meta-generators, and the cymatics of water. Open them in a WebGPU-capable browser (Chrome or Edge) and fly around.
For teams, founders, and people doing hard things: a thinking partner who works the structure of the problem, not just the symptoms.
Engagements are private and tailored. Most begin with a one-hour conversation; we go from there. Work is grounded in the Circumpunct Framework but written in the language of whatever world you operate in.
Start a conversationRun a real decision through a five-pillar test (Right, Good, Faithful, True, Agreement). Surface what you already half-know.
Steelmanning, narcissistic-pattern recognition, restoration after coercive dynamics. One-on-one or small group.
Independent read of a product, narrative, or organizational change: what is honest, what is performance, what is missing.
Commissioned essays, talks, white papers, and framework adaptations for your domain.
A decade-long research project on what holds wholes together. One symbol; soul, line, field, and boundary; a working model of how parts become wholes across physics, mind, ethics, and design.
I write in a declarative register because a framework stated at half-volume cannot be tested, and I want this one tested. The register is a method of exposure, not a report of certainty. My actual position: this is a hypothesis I have spent years refining, which has survived some checks and failed others, and the failures are on the public record with dated retractions that stay visible. Its quantitative claims carry stated bands and named kill conditions; some of them may die on schedule, and the record will say so. If you show me a real error, I will retract in public and credit the correction. That is the standing deal: full conviction in the writing, full corrigibility in the practice, and receipts for both.
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Curiosity opens the door. Corrigibility keeps it open.
A place to share ideas, steelman each other, and practice corrigibility and curiosity: becoming more conscious together and exploring new perspectives. Five places inside, from the Steelman Arena to Corrigibility Practice. Sign in with Google, Discord, Facebook, or Apple.
Step through the doorwayThe framework at a glance.
Twenty-one visual summaries in one gallery: the Circumpunct and its theory of mind, God and the Soul Matrix, One Thing with Infinite Centers, time, attention, love, the Self Science posters, and the ethics set from True. Faithful. Good. Right. to the Truth Resolution Protocol. Click any piece to view it full size.
Open the galleryCorrigibility is how we remain faithful when we discover we were wrong.
Fallibility is built into finite beings, so the highest human virtue cannot be the possession of correct beliefs; it may be the capacity to recognize and correct our errors. On corrigibility as the meta-virtue that keeps every other virtue from turning dangerous, how ordinary error hardens into wrongdoing when mistakes are made untouchable, why the noble lie destroys the very correction it depends on, and the difference between obedience and remaining answerable to reality. A virtue of relational wholeness: the courage to become right.
Read the essayI am how I exist within.
Self Science is the study and practice of how I participate in my own wholeness. On attention as the meeting place of will and need, imagination as a field of possibility the body responds to, changing states rather than reversing them, and why a whole must stay corrigible as well as cohesive. The goal is not perfection but wholeness: learning to exist within yourself as a whole, coherent enough to act, sensitive enough to listen, and corrigible enough to change.
Read the essayOne and many. A Circumpunct manifesto.
The manifesto as a 116-page illustrated book in two parts, each page beside a fractal plate drawn live in your browser, set inside a cosmic frame. Part Two, What We Become, starts from one encounter, being told you hurt someone, and follows it through the images we defend, the roles we carry, and the groups we build together. Press Listen and the whole book is read aloud in the author’s cloned voice, turning its own pages. It begins with your hand and ends with a question: what are we helping one another become?
Open the bookI am whole. I am part.
The point is soul, the circle is body, and the field between them is mind. God is the ultimate whole and souls are the ultimate parts, and the same relationship repeats inside each of us: our minds are fractals of God, our bodies fractals of souls. The soul stands where the two scales meet, and an ethics of protecting and connecting follows once one commitment is made, that every center of experience matters.
View the presentationTwo living centers never meet. Two representations fight.
Narcissus did not love himself; he fell in love with his image, and everyone protecting any lie eventually signs the same defense contract. On the strawman society: why the person who lives through an image of themselves must convert you into an image too, why the attack was never addressed to you, and the one capacity, pointed in two directions, that makes an actual meeting possible. Keep your souls corrigible, and let reality ripple those ponds.
Read the essayThe hole is not your soul. It is your digestive tract.
You have a tunnel running all the way through you, which makes you a torus, and the inside of that tunnel is topologically outside your body. So the hole everyone wants to call the soul is the one place a soul cannot be. On the two holes and why confusing them matters, why almost all of your contact with the world happens where you cannot see it, and the hour in your development when you stopped being a sphere.
Read the essayThe lie manufactures its own evidence.
Once a society accepts that lying is permissible for a sufficiently important purpose, deception stops being an emergency measure and becomes a cultural method. On strawmanning as a failure of relationship, paternalism creating the immaturity it fears, the false choice between reckless disclosure and permanent concealment, and the third possibility: a Truth Resolution Protocol, with curiosity as the cure.
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You are whole. You are part. What are you becoming? The Circumpunct manifesto in print: short reflections and branching line drawings, beginning from a point inside a circle.
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Everything is Connected! The deepest questions (what is consciousness, what is the soul, what is God) turned into something you can actually use, and feel.
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An illustrated book for young readers: through playful language and colorful pictures, children discover they are part of a vast, ever-changing puzzle of stars, animals, people, and ideas.
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