https://mariomergola.com 2026-08-28 daily 1.0 https://mariomergola.com/assets/images/image01.svg Branching mission logic resolving through squad loyalty and specialist checks into survival or death states. https://mariomergola.com/assets/images/image03.svg Quest chain of four quests over a shared data spine, with a phase gate between quest two and three. https://mariomergola.com/assets/images/image07.svg Puzzle gating flow: a story beat, a clue check, a second beat, a state set, and resolution. https://mariomergola.com/assets/images/image05.svg Open world flow: a story beat and free roam feeding a trigger volume that fires the next beat or re-arms. https://mariomergola.com/assets/images/image06.svg Design direction feeding three reusable templates that eleven designers built from. https://mariomergola.com/assets/images/image04.jpg Fig. 02: The Base — full branching structure across squad assignments, loyalty states, and survival outcomes https://mariomergola.com/assets/images/image08.jpg Fig. 03: Randomizing loyalty variables in Unreal Engine 5, written against the Articy flow https://mariomergola.com/assets/images/gallery01/33200a4f.jpg Scars of Honor https://mariomergola.com/assets/images/gallery03/f9a0096a.jpg Ascend https://mariomergola.com/assets/images/gallery04/6359273a.jpg Pandora: Chains of Chaos https://mariomergola.com/assets/images/gallery02/b697f3dc.jpg Pandora: Chains of Chaos https://mariomergola.com/assets/images/image02.svg Branching mission logic resolving through squad loyalty and specialist checks into survival or death states.