VELAR Dynamics

Method I

ASDS — social-deductive roleplay simulation

ASDS — Authentic Social Deductive Simulation. An open social system with deterministic initial conditions and emergent behaviour. A group of 15–70 people takes on fictional identities with asymmetric information, competing goals and economic ties; in real time, a social dynamic unfolds whose course and outcome cannot be set in advance.

Cross-disciplinary equivalents: a complex adaptive system at the edge of chaos (complexity theory), an asymmetric information game (game theory), experiential assessment with emergent diagnostics (organisational behaviour), authorial immersive dramaturgy without a script.

The material of the game is people. The solution does not exist a priori — it emerges from interaction. The format sits outside teambuilding, escape rooms, LARP, murder mystery and assessment centres.

Six construction layers

1. Information asymmetry — no character holds the full picture; information is distributed vectorially (who knows what about whom, with what certainty, under what activation condition).
2. Economic ecosystem — a network of obligations, debts and bribes turns social interaction into transaction.
3. Relational topology — ties between roles (friendship, rivalry, complicity) determine how information and pressure propagate.
4. Psychological engine — characters with internal contradictions activate the player's real patterns within the role.
5. Non-linear conflict — overlapping and latent conflicts spread as cascades.
6. Temporal architecture — phasing with sub-threshold regulators drives the system to a bifurcation point in controlled time.

The design regime is edge of chaos: the band between rigid structure and chaos in which emergent behaviour is richest.

Editions

• Svatohrad 1932 — First Republic drama, 30–64 characters, modular. Detective core.
• Blackwood Manor Affairs — full-day noir detective saga, 15 characters.
• Spies Between Us — Cold War espionage simulation, 15–22 characters, two factions.
• THE VAULT — immersive psychological simulation in a luxury hotel, 2090. Hybrid axis.
• Pipeline: Berlin Espionage, OXYGEN (dystopian), Western Border Intrigue, Ørsk, Neon, Halloween Pumpkins.

Five complexity tiers

BASIC (2–3 h) · ADVANCED (3–5 h) · PRO (6–8 h) · VELVET (10–12 h) · ULTIMATE (1–3 days). Each higher tier represents a qualitative jump in the depth of the layers beyond the increase in length.

Combination

ASDS × VABI — phygital roleplay simulation with a digital currency

When method I and method II are combined, the result is a phygital roleplay simulation with a digital currency. Players take on roles from a fully developed ASDS scenario (characters, relationships, motives, secrets) and at the same time operate inside the VABI digital economy: they transfer credit, attack, defend, form alliances, vote.

ASDS roleplay supplies depth of narrative, intrinsic motivation, and psychological resonance. VABI supplies real-time transactional pressure, a behavioural trace, and a measurable data output. Editions designed for this mode: THE VAULT, Holiday Summit (extended mode), and bespoke editions on request.

The combination is optional. A client can book pure ASDS roleplay without VABI, or pure VABI without ASDS roles. The phygital mode is the most demanding to facilitate and the densest in terms of data output.

What the client receives from VABI and ASDS × VABI

The data output comes primarily from VABI — every action a player takes in the application is timestamped and stored (event type, screen, time spent before the action, result). From the event log, derived metrics and player archetypes are computed.

Derived metrics

• Stress score — number of actions in the last 5 minutes against the player's own baseline.
• Impulsivity — share of decisions made under 3 seconds.
• Defensiveness — ratio of heist defend to heist initiate.
• Reactivity — time to react to an assimilation or broadcast event.

Player archetypes

Impulsive · Under stress · Defensive · Strategist · Reactive · Steady (reference group). Classification is derived from behavioural data.

Visualisations

• Timeline panel — per-player event lanes over time, macro-stress histogram.
• Replay engine — the entire game as animated balance bars with key moments (drama score ≥ 6).
• Social map — graph of transactions between players (who, to whom, how much).
• Heat map — time spent on each tab.
• Stress index — chronological tension timeline across the group.

Pure ASDS without VABI yields a qualitative output drawn from facilitator observation and a structured debrief; the data event log appears only in runs that include the VABI component.

Availability

VELAR Dynamics is a standalone project. The format is agreed individually after a short qualifying conversation — number of players, choice of method (ASDS, VABI or ASDS×VABI), edition/preset, venue, data-collection objective.