Pane Lark

An alternate reality game, played in iMessage and on the web.

Status
Live
Year
2026
Medium
iMessage + web
arg.mapier.dev

Pane Lark is a work of fiction. Its people, places and agencies are invented, and nothing in it is a real emergency or government service.

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An interactive mystery across your messages and your browser. The story is something you discover by playing.

The medium

It starts in a message.

You text the game's number, and a familiar conversation becomes part of an alternate reality game.

The web

Look beyond the thread.

Messages and web pages belong to the same game. What you find in one changes what happens in the other.

What we're learning

Characters that keep their secrets.

Agents that play characters have to know only what their character knows. Holding that line is most of the engineering.

Built with

  • iMessage
  • Web
  • Character agents