Gargantis Scout is the browser-based explorer for the Gargantisphere: the JavaScript application that lets a person enter the network, render realms with WebGL, and travel between them through portals. It runs in any modern web browser — the browser is the platform, so there is no separate console or desktop client (the legacy “Steam”/native-client clients are not part of the protocol vision).

Scout is itself an ordinary node: it joins the peer-to-peer network via Helia / IPFS, subscribes to the visible parts of a realm via the Scene Composition Protocol, and represents the visitor with a persona. “Exploring with Scout” and “being a peer” are the same act.

Status#

The legacy gargantis-scout repo and its static.gargantis.com demos (three.js / WebGL monster scene) are historical reference; their working ideas are being subsumed into this monorepo. The Scout entry point will be served statically (Hugo on Cloudflare Workers) and over IPFS.

See also#

Backward Gargantis Architecture Gargantisphere Forward