The Soviet factory.
Assembly halls fill the left of the frame. Two stacks and a pair of cooling towers mark the power plant on the right. The site plan shows how the workshop yards and outlying buildings fit together.
IN DEVELOPMENTLISAVA GAMES PRESENTS
INDUSTRY. PEOPLE. CONSEQUENCES.
ASHMERIDIAN.
Every choice
has a price.
A detailed industrial and military simulation. Follow a worker to the factory, a heat line to a home, or the drive from crankshaft to track.
Try it yourselfSCROLL TO LOOK CLOSER263 / STORYBOARD · S07
The factory on film
Recordings from the project’s Unity builds. Follow a hull through assembly, see the tank climb onto a flatcar and ride the train beyond the factory.
PLAY IN YOUR BROWSER
01 / LOGISTICSSupply mission
02 / DISPATCHDispatch shift
03 / ZIL · RUZIL power network
Take a shift
01 / LOGISTICSSupply missionBuild a vehicle, deliver three crates and bring it home.
↗02 / DISPATCHDispatch shiftTwo crews need parts. Decide which kit goes on the truck first.
↗03 / ZIL · RUZIL power networkChange the load on the factory network and watch the workshops respond. Original prototype in Russian.
↗FIELD NOTES / ASH MERIDIAN
Factory and city
A boiler feeds a turbine. A bus brings a shift to the gate. Follow both routes to the assembly hall and see what happens to the homes around it when power is short.
Who gets the last 70 kW? Compare three days of factory records →INSIDE THE SIMULATION
What happens to one shift?
07:00 → 12:00
From the bus to lunch
At 07:00, 200 people are on the way. At noon the assembly crew leaves its posts for a 20-minute meal.
20 → 9.95 °CA home cools overnight
With the boiler stopped and the power feed limited, the temperature in housing block B26 fell to 9.95 °C in eight simulated hours.
IMPACT TESTThe turret drive fails
The hit disabled powered turret rotation. The gunner could no longer aim and the wounded commander could no longer speak. The driver could still move the vehicle.
0 → 80 → 800 RPMThe first engine start
The starter turns the crankshaft before fuel ignites. At 8.03 seconds the engine holds 800 rpm and the oil pressure reads 2.50 bar. Watch the factory test.
01 /THE VISION OF ASH MERIDIAN
Behind every
machine —
an entire world.
First, light in the workshop.
Then, people at the machines.
Only then, steel on the battlefield.
At 07:00, 200 people are still on the way to the factory. At noon the assembly crew has 20 minutes for lunch. The workshop counts labour when workers reach their assigned posts. At home, indoor temperature keeps changing as the heat supply rises or falls.
Compare the district generator, recorded factory shifts and individual vehicle tests in the field notes.
Discover the connectionsNOTHING COMES FROM NOTHINGEVERY CHOICE HAS A PRICE
THREE WAYS INTO THIS WORLDFirst, a decision.
First, a decision.
Then, its consequence.
Choose a vehicle. Issue an order. Follow a research idea into work on a particular machine.
T-72A / 1979
01 / INSPECTION
Hangar.
Select a vehicle. Change the view. Inspect each marked assembly.
Enter the hangar↗AM / OPERATIONS
02 / COMMAND
Orders.
Choose a destination. Check the route. See what a blockage changes.
Open the operations table↗AM / RESEARCH LINEAGE
03 / DEVELOPMENT
Research.
Explore a solution. Prepare a kit. Apply it to one vehicle.
Follow the development↗Interactive system sketches and project image inspection. These scenes introduce the game’s design.
02 /WORLD / INDUSTRY
Inside the ZIL works.
Photos from the ZIL factory project.
See the whole factory on the plan ↗ASH MERIDIAN / WORLD ATLASAM / 01
The town.
Beyond the factory gate, another shift begins. Homes, streets and everyday lives give this industrial world a scale that cannot be measured in machines alone.
HOMES / STREETS / EVERYDAY LIFEInside the machine shop.
Rows of machine tools run between the columns of B10. From the aisle you can see the workstations, overhead lighting and the space around each machine.
B10 / MACHINE TOOLSAt the railhead.
The gantry spans the apron beside the tracks. A truck can pull alongside a flatcar here so its load can make the next part of the journey by rail.
B19 / CRANE AND SIDINGSThe machine.
Silhouette, hull, running gear, equipment. The wider picture gives way to individual details. We want vehicles to have a tangible story, from their creation to their work and return.
STRUCTURE / COMPONENTS / CONDITIONThe person.
A work shift. A driver in a cab. A crew behind armour. People give this entire chain its meaning. Through them, decisions carry weight and consequences become understandable.
WORK / CREW / CONSEQUENCES03 /THE CORE PRINCIPLE
Nothing comes
from nothing.
Every result has a source, a cost and a journey.
Follow the story of one machine.
A machine begins with ore, energy and human effort. It must be assembled, equipped, fuelled and delivered. After the battle, you must decide what can be recovered.
AN EXAMPLE: THE JOURNEY OF ONE MACHINE01
Ore & materials
Extraction → transport → storage
02
Energy & workshop
Processing → metal → components
03
Vehicle assembly
Hull + components + labour
04
Preparation
Crew + fuel + ammunition
05
The road to the front
Route + transport + time
06
Action & its price
Combat → consumption → condition
Recovery → inspection → repair or dismantling → return of vehicles and usable components
ОТ СЫРЬЯ ДО ПРИКАЗА
Одна машина. Много необходимых связей.
В этом примере машина проходит весь путь: материалы поступают в производство, цеха создают детали, сборка соединяет их, экипаж получает подготовленную технику. Доставка связывает этот труд с действиями на карте.
Выберите сбой выше и посмотрите, какая связь меняется.
An illustration of the game’s design. This explains cause and effect; it is not a recording of a working match or a calculation of game balance.
04 /ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FRONT
The enemy looks
for a weak point.
The vision for General AI:
scout, isolate, apply pressure.
THE LOGIC OF CONFLICTAI / AM
Learn first.
The enemy must gather information too. Reconnaissance reveals the positions of forces and their routes. Decisions should follow what has been discovered, while hidden movement preserves uncertainty.
Cut the link to the rear.
An attack on supply forces a choice: hold a position, defend the road or find a detour. The outcome can change far from the main engagement.
Apply pressure. Regroup.
Exploit an opening, assess the outcome and gather strength for the next move. The pause between attacks offers a chance to restore connections or seize the initiative.
This is how we are designing the opponent. Verified game episodes will be shown in development materials.
05 /MODES & CHALLENGES
One world.
Different challenges.
A shared foundation: industry,
supply and the price of decisions.
Game modes are in development.
ICampaignA story shaped by decisions that carry weightSTORY
The world remembers your decisions. In the campaign design, infrastructure, losses and obligations persist between operations. A damaged road needs restoration, people are finite, and the next task starts from remaining forces and available routes. The story reveals the human cost of orders through the people carrying them out.
Campaign: story, world and consequences ↗IISkirmish AIA standalone battle under serious pressureSKIRMISH / PvE
Test your plan against General AI. Our aim is a demanding opponent that scouts, finds vulnerable connections and exploits breakthroughs. Read the situation, protect supply and choose when to take the offensive. Reconnaissance, attacks and regrouping create the rhythm of a standalone battle.
General AI, Brutal and match conditions ↗IIICompetitive PvPYour plan meets someone else’s intentMULTIPLAYER
Compete for initiative, supply and the ability to preserve forces. The design allows asymmetric maps checked against actual play opportunities. Campaign upgrades do not carry into a match; ranks, achievements and cosmetics are intended to provide no combat bonuses.
PvP: starting conditions, maps and progression ↗IVChallengeUnderstand the system through your own decisionsCHALLENGE
This direction has its own chapter. You can already play a demonstration mission on this site: produce a vehicle, deliver three crates and bring it home. Six decisions, finite stock and a cost report explain the principle of nothing coming from nothing. The full game Challenge rules still need current project material.
The challenge and a playable example ↗Mode availability, testing arrangements and the release feature set will be announced separately.
FIELD MANUAL / 08 CHAPTERS
How Meridian works.
From the factory programme to an order on the terrain. Systems, modes and the world, with requirements, decisions and consequences.
06 /A CLOSER LOOK
Witnesses
to a world.
Images of the 3D prototype.
From a panorama to a single detail.
Original images from the project archive. The build and capture source are still being verified. Open any image to see the complete frame.
MATERIALS ARE BEING PREPAREDA real world.
A real world.
Real captures.
Images for this topic are still being selected. Available images can be explored in the other gallery categories.
Wide views / factory / vehicles / people07 /BEYOND THE FACTORY GATE
FOLLOW THIS WORLD AS IT TAKES SHAPE.
Meridian
begins here.
New game materials, a closer look at development
and a conversation about the game we are making.