Schema

A slopped.site Worker: the main site or a subdomain

Key

site id

Source

world/sites.js

Fields

name, aka (3), url, domain, tagline, since, icon

Facets

none

Edges

part-of ← page, part-of ← hood, part-of ← exhibit, part-of ← clock, part-of → site, part-of ← cartridge, part-of ← song, part-of ← lesson, part-of ← tree, part-of ← idea, part-of ← fractal, part-of ← chapter, describes ← codex, appears-in ← codex, found-on ← secret, sold-at ← item, used-on ← item, pictured-by → codex, worn-on ← skin

• Meinong’s jungle codex entry
• slopped.site codex entry
• Codex codex entry

A real page, as listed in its sitemap

Key

host + path

Source

each live site’s built folder (world/load.mjs pagesOf)

Fields

name, title, url, site

Facets

none

Edges

part-of → site, shown-on ← any

• Foodways
• Shop page:shop.slopped.site/
• Liner notes

A starter cartridge on the Slopbox (cart.slopped.site): one text file that is a whole small game; a port links to the game it came from

Key

starter id (permanent: /play/?cart=<id>)

Source

cart/carts/*.cart (each file’s own meta lines and credit line)

Fields

name, url, about, image, shelf

Facets

shelf: games 25, pocket 8, original 5, lesson 1

Edges

part-of → site, port-of → game

• 2048
• Ballast
• Bench Lamp

A game on games.slopped.site; aka = former card titles from git history

Key

card id (folder or #hash)

Source

games/public/index.html (the cards)

Fields

name, aka (16), url, line, image, genre, shelf, standalone (25), added (17)

Facets

genre: Arcade 15, Action 7, Cards 7, Puzzle 6, Strategy 5, Platformer 2, and 39 more

Edges

port-of ← cartridge, comes-from ← song, plays-in ← song, describes ← codex, appears-in ← codex

• Always On codex entry
• Benchwork codex entry
• Paperweight codex entry

A codex entry: a person, creature, place, object, event, group or concept

Key

entry id

Source

codex/lore.js + codex/scripts/sources.mjs allEntries

Fields

name, aka (71), url, kind, world, summary, image (334), src (282), generated (27), legend (none yet)

Facets

kind: object 102, concept 90, creature 82, place 77, person 22, event 17, and 1 more

Edges

borrows ← clock, describes → game, describes → site, describes → art, describes → pathway, describes → season, appears-in → game, appears-in → site, set-in → world, related → codex, links-to → codex, found-on → any, pictures ← art, draws-on ← idea, pictured-by ← site, filed-in ← secret, owns-homepage → homepage, teaches → module, connects → codex, uncertain → codex, concerns ← question, describes → faction, member-of → faction, decides-for ← government, stirs-as ← food, classed-as → creature-kind, comes-from → codex, kept-by ← library, located-in ← library, located-in ← market, holds ← library

• The Slopwright
• Tinny
• The workshop

A region of the in-world geography (the workshop, the vats...); its colour and pattern on the map are fixed by its place in WORLDS; chart = a drawn chart of it on the codex (the sea’s, /map/sea/)

Key

world id

Source

codex/lore.js WORLDS

Fields

name, url, summary, image, chart (1), colour, pattern

Facets

none

Edges

set-in ← codex

• The workshop
• The office
• The wall

A Fresh slop artwork (AI-generated); season = the season it is only shown in

Key

artwork id (permanent)

Source

public/artwork.js

Fields

name, url, category, subtitle, image, width, height, season (18)

Facets

category: Spaces 188, Objects 176, Surreal 167

Edges

describes ← codex, pictures → codex, made-into ← idea, styled-after ← idea, in-season → season, classifies ← specimen

• A well-kept secret codex entry
• Paper moths in the archive codex entry
• Sunday at the stapler codex entry

An outfit for an app (the desk, Tinny, the shell): one stylesheet, the markup unchanged; free, or premium stock for the shop

Key

two letters (permanent; the shop’s item id)

Source

world/skins.js

Fields

name, url, apps, price, season (1), secret (1), blurb

Facets

price: free 13, 80 sardines 3, 100 sardines 1, 40 sardines 1, 50 sardines 1, 60 sardines 1, and 2 more

Edges

in-season → season, is-skin ← item, worn-on → site

• Diving bell
• Lamp
• Slopoween

A cosmetic on shop.slopped.site’s counter, priced in sardines, thimbles or marbles; honoured by each site it is used on

Key

two letters (permanent; the wallet cookie stores it)

Source

world/shop.js

Fields

name, url, kind, price, currency, season (2), what

Facets

currency: sardines 49, marbles 5, thimbles 5

Edges

in-season → season, sold-at → site, used-on → site, is-skin → skin

• Diving bell
• Teacup
• Walnut theatre

One of ideas.slopped.site’s daily prompts that became Fresh slop; only made ones are nodes (the rest are dealt from the date)

Key

<UTC date>-<01..12> (permanent)

Source

ideas/public/gen.js (dealt by date) + public/artwork.js idea

Fields

name, url, date, breaks, prompt, season

Facets

breaks

Edges

part-of → site, made-into → art, draws-on → codex, styled-after → art, breaks → taxon

A time of year some Fresh slop is only shown in (by the viewer’s date); url = its codex entry

Key

season id (permanent)

Source

world/seasons.js

Fields

name, url, months, about

Facets

none

Edges

describes ← codex, in-season ← art, in-season ← skin, in-season ← item, held-at ← rite

• Slopoween codex entry

How an artwork fails to exist, in Meinong’s jungle

Key

artwork id

Source

jungle/specimens.js SPECIMENS

Fields

name, url, kind, breaks (493), image

Facets

kind: possible 436, impossible 95; breaks: physics 191, scale 159, category 147, material 85

Edges

classifies → art, classed-as → taxon, breaks → taxon

• Moonlight in the drawer
• Moth motel
• A soap-sized desert in the mirror

A rank in the taxonomy of nonexistence

Key

kind id, or breaks-<what>

Source

jungle/specimens.js GENUS, KINDS, BREAKS

Fields

name, url, rank

Facets

none

Edges

part-of → taxon, classed-as ← specimen, breaks ← specimen, breaks ← idea

• Possible
• Physics
• Scale

A secret hidden on a site (title only; hints stay on the codex ledger)

Key

two letters

Source

world/secrets.js

Fields

name, url, site, planned (none yet)

Facets

none

Edges

found-on → site, unlocks → any, filed-in → codex

• Left on
• Not on record
• On the sill

A pathway of the Slop Curriculum, with its badge

Key

pathway id

Source

learn/src/curriculum.js PATHWAYS

Fields

name, aka, url, n, tagline, badge

Facets

none

Edges

part-of ← module, describes ← codex, requires → pathway, teaches → tech

• Slop that moves codex entry
• From slop to style codex entry
• Slop that plays codex entry

A module of the Slop Curriculum

Key

module id

Source

learn/src/curriculum.js MODULES

Fields

name, url, n

Facets

none

Edges

part-of → pathway, leads-into ← lesson, teaches ← codex, applies ← tree

• Tools, not vibes
• Music from rules
• Who made this?

A GeoCities homepage

Key

homepage id

Source

geocities/pages.js (+ more.js, round3.js, round4.js)

Fields

name, url, owner, kind, images (11)

Facets

kind: character 23, experimental 19, tutorial 15, humour 14, puzzle 13, collection 12, and 31 more

Edges

part-of → hood, links-to → any, shows → any, owns-homepage ← codex, member-of-ring → ring, kept-by ← ring

• SKIM HIGH SCORES & BOSS GUIDE
• The Slopwright's Home Page
• ~*~ my 1st homepage!!! ~*~

A GeoCities neighbourhood; aka = the old GeoCities name it stands in for

Key

neighbourhood id

Source

geocities/pages.js HOODS

Fields

name, aka, url, blurb

Facets

none

Edges

part-of ← homepage, part-of → site

• OfficePark
• TheWorkshop
• TheVats

A GeoCities web ring

Key

ring id

Source

geocities/pages.js RINGS

Fields

name, url

Facets

none

Edges

member-of-ring ← homepage, kept-by → homepage

• The Slop Fan Ring
• Things With Lids WebRing
• Office Supplies WebRing

A chapter of the workshop’s history

Key

chapter anchor

Source

world/history.js (as slopwright/public/history/ renders it)

Fields

name, url, kicker, legend (1)

Facets

none

Edges

part-of → site, mentions → any, part-of → era

• The games got serious
• A deck of cards
• Now

A Bad UI exhibit

Key

exhibit id

Source

badui/exhibits.js

Fields

name, url, kind, difficulty

Facets

kind: input 10, game 7, misleading 7, physics 6, a11y 5, dark 5, and 1 more

Edges

part-of → site

• Select every square with slop
• A hundred and one buttons
• A switch with paperwork

A clock on clocks.slopped.site (every one tells the real time)

Key

clock id

Source

clocks/clocks.js

Fields

name, url, section, made

Facets

section: Absurd 8, Bad UI 8, Funny 8, Surreal 8; made: HTML 15, Canvas 8, SVG 8, CSS only 1

Edges

part-of → site, borrows → codex

• The lamp, in Morse
• Orrery
• A hurricane in a pocket watch

A song Tinny plays on music.slopped.site, written as notes (ours, or a game’s own)

Key

song id

Source

music/songs.js

Fields

name, url, from, key (36), bpm (36)

Facets

from: music.slopped.site 36, Always On 6, Drip 4, Pipe Down 3, The Big Number 3

Edges

part-of → site, comes-from → game, plays-in → game, plays ← lesson

• Four Chords in a Tin
• The Big Number
• Scene Change

A lesson in the music.slopped.site course, taught by the Slopwright

Key

lesson id

Source

music/lessons.js

Fields

name, url, n, tool

Facets

tool: drums 3, desk 2, keys 2, metronome 1, roll 1

Edges

part-of → site, plays → song, leads-into → module

• Drum and bass
• Trance
• Arrangement and form

A Lineage tree

Key

tree id

Source

lineage/trees.js

Fields

name, url, medium

Facets

medium: image 2, vision 2, game 1, sound 1, text 1

Edges

part-of → site, applies → module

• A lighthouse in a sardine tin
• The Slopwright at his bench
• A jump sound

A fractal family

Key

family id

Source

fractals/public/families.js

Fields

name, url, group

Facets

group: Escape-time 10, Chaos game 6, Curves and plants 5, 3D 2, Circles and groups 2, Noise 1

Edges

part-of → site

• Gosper curve
• Julia set
• Kleinian limit set

A real-world source a claim on the sites rests on (url = the source itself)

Key

source id

Source

world/sources.js

Fields

name, url, publisher, checked, checkBy (23)

Facets

publisher: Wikipedia 37, Cloudflare Developers 10, Model Context Protocol 5, MDN Web Docs 4, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 3, Content Authenticity Initiative 2, and 31 more

Edges

supports → any

• Pricing (Durable Objects)
• Durable Content Credentials
• Limits (Workers KV)

A side in the world: its members, alignment on the lamp and the lid, and its view of every other faction (proposed until approved)

Key

faction id (permanent)

Source

world/factions.js

Fields

name, url, status, creed, lamp, lid, reading, colour

Facets

reading: draughty 3, lamplit 3, unbothered 3

Edges

describes ← codex, member-of ← codex, stance → faction, knows → tech, keeps → institution, holds → belief, decides-for ← government, eats → food, serves → food, taboo → food, kept-by ← library, kept-by ← market, uses → library, supplies → faction

• The household codex entry
• Staff only codex entry
• The office supplies codex entry

A lore question that is not on record until the user answers it

Key

question id

Source

world/questions.js

Fields

name, url, status, answer (7), on (7)

Facets

status: open 31, answered 7

Edges

concerns → codex

• Are the stockrooms and showrooms one place or several?
• What is the workshop’s floor plan?
• Is Overtime’s Wren the same person as the unnamed apprentice in Always On and Benchwork?

A standing rule the user set; enforcedBy = the check scripts

Key

decision id

Source

world/decisions.js

Fields

name, url, date, enforcedBy (33)

Facets

none

Edges

governs → any

• Stay within the free tier
• Seasonal Fresh slop is only out in its season
• A first visit can buy something small; the daily cap is 80

A technique of the world, on one of the lines of know-how; needs others first; status proposed or restates (canon once approved)

Key

technique id (permanent)

Source

world/systems/know-how.js

Fields

name, url, line, status

Facets

line: slop 8, light 7, heat 6, containers 5, kitchen 5, paper 5, and 3 more; status: restates 40, proposed 4

Edges

requires → tech, requires ← institution, requires ← recipe, in-era → era, teaches ← pathway, knows ← faction, holds ← library

• Boiling a kettle
• Filing
• Found containers

A rule, rota, receipt, badge or guestbook a faction keeps

Key

institution id (permanent)

Source

world/systems/institutions.js

Fields

name, url, line, status

Facets

line: the-house 6, the-rota 5, procedure 4, records 4, trade 4, the-stage 3; status: restates 25, proposed 1

Edges

requires → institution, requires → tech, in-era → era, keeps ← faction, holds ← library

• Guestbooks
• Web rings
• Memos

A conviction factions hold, read through a loud lens (moral-alignment); never a real faith

Key

belief id (permanent)

Source

world/systems/beliefs.js BELIEFS

Fields

name, url, lens, status

Facets

lens: duties 4, character 3, consequences 2, care 1, contract 1; status: restates 10, proposed 1

Edges

holds ← faction, observes ← rite

• The lamp stays on
• The same door
• Every lamp goes out

An observance of a belief, held at an occasion or in a season

Key

rite id (permanent)

Source

world/systems/beliefs.js RITES

Fields

name, url, status

Facets

status: restates 8, proposed 3

Edges

observes → belief, held-at → occasion, held-at → season

• Blowing from upstairs
• The closing checklist
• Finding the A

How a faction or a key place decides: who, by what rule, with what limits; never a real form of government

Key

government id (permanent)

Source

world/systems/governments.js

Fields

name, url, status

Facets

status: restates 14, proposed 2

Edges

decides-for → faction, decides-for → codex

• Best of three
• Both halves
• Calling the show

A food or drink from the games and the wall: found, made by a technique, or by a recipe

Key

food id (permanent)

Source

world/systems/foods.js FOODS

Fields

name, url, sort, made, status

Facets

sort: fruit 14, baked 11, dish 7, sweet 7, drink 6, vegetable 6, and 3 more; made: found 47, recipe 10, technique 1; status: proposed 42, restates 16

Edges

makes ← recipe, uses ← recipe, eats ← faction, serves ← faction, taboo ← faction, stirs-as → codex, sold-at → market

• Tea
• Biscuit
• Soup

A recipe in Make Do’s crafting shape: what it makes, from what, with what know-how

Key

recipe id (permanent)

Source

world/systems/foods.js RECIPES

Fields

name, url, status

Facets

status: proposed 5, restates 3

Edges

requires → tech, makes → food, uses → food

• Cold brew, the recipe
• Espresso, the recipe
• Jelly, the recipe

Natural history: how a creature stirs (born, woken, batched, loose) and its sort within that

Key

stir or sort id (permanent)

Source

world/systems/natural-history.js STIRS, SORTS

Fields

name, url, level

Facets

level: sort 17, stir 5

Edges

part-of → creature-kind, classed-as ← codex

• Set in a shape
• Desk things
• Machines

Where knowledge is kept in the world, its provenance rule and how it gets out

Key

library id (permanent)

Source

world/systems/libraries.js

Fields

name, url, access, status

Facets

access: open 9, members 4, private 2, seasonal 1; status: restates 10, proposed 6

Edges

in-era → era, kept-by → faction, kept-by → codex, located-in → codex, holds → tech, holds → institution, holds → codex, uses ← faction

• The Slop Curriculum
• The archive
• The homepages

An in-world shop: its keeper, its place, its currency (buttons, never the site’s sardines) and what it sells

Key

market id (permanent)

Source

world/systems/economy.js

Fields

name, url, currency, status

Facets

currency: buttons 4, sardines 1; status: restates 4, proposed 1

Edges

sold-at ← food, kept-by → faction, located-in → codex

• The Drawer
• The kiosk
• The sales floor

A run of the history’s chapters; things are dated by the era they are first on record in

Key

era id (permanent)

Source

world/systems/eras.js ERAS

Fields

name, url, legend (1), status

Facets

status: proposed 5, restates 1

Edges

in-era ← tech, in-era ← institution, in-era ← library, part-of ← chapter

• The worlds
• The filing
• The classroom

A time things happen in the world (an hour, an event, a daily, a season’s edge); rites are held at them

Key

occasion id (permanent)

Source

world/systems/eras.js OCCASIONS

Fields

name, url, kind, status

Facets

kind: event 4, hour 2, daily 1, season-edge 1; status: restates 7, proposed 1

Edges

held-at ← rite

• Going up to the attic
• Stocktake
• Closing

Not a type: a few rules start or end at any node, like shown-on (a thing → the page at its url) and links-to from a homepage.