Overview

The games, art, and fiction of Veritas Flux are the work of one person.

The future described here is informed by observations from someone who designed data storage solutions for healthcare, deep space astrophysics research, criminal investigation systems, and the largest programs in Federal defense. The authentication systems, memory economies, and institutional dehumanization the universe describes were observed from the inside over thirty-five years.

The interesting questions are rarely asked.

Art

Livestock Management Matrix — an ongoing series built from corporate promotional objects handed out before a rebrand made them obsolete, jargon intact. I built and managed the data infrastructure for the firm that made them. The series ends when the source material is gone.

Pyrophono

Prior musical form — Schrödinger's Cat (not the a capella group), mid-1990s, with another linguist who served alongside during the Soviet collapse. A practice tape became the most requested song on a college radio station in Yankton, South Dakota. We were asked to headline their music showcase. I was selling blood plasma. He was still in the Air Force. The momentum was lost.

Pyrophono is what happens when the ideas don't stop and the excuses have run out.

FEED: Signal & Noise

A stress test for the attention economy, disguised as a card game.

Players become the algorithm, optimizing real headlines for maximum engagement.

Each round the players rotate roles, where one player is Management (the Anchor/Editorial desk). They read a mundane headline (Signal) in the style of a target emotion: FEAR, RAGE, CONSPIRACY, HOPE... Everyone else plays a spin ending (NOISE) to make it go viral .

Management performs each combination aloud, picks the funniest Noise that matches the target emotion and a winner gets the click (point). The challenge, while everyone knows that outrage produces the fastest engagement, if everyone goes loud and hot, then the system crashes and only the player that provided a “calmer” voice wins the round.

What it sounds like at the table:

"City Council Debates Fonts ...AND THEY'RE COMING FOR YOUR CHILDREN"

"Dentist Recommends Flossing ...AND IT'S A FALSE FLAG OPERATION"

"Freelancer Receives Payment On Time ...BECAUSE LOVE ACTUALLY WINS"

Players become the machine, and feel what the machine produces.. FEED's core mechanic is based on psychological inoculation theory which builds resistance to manipulation by generating weakened forms of it.

This approach is supported by peer-reviewed research published in Science Advances (Roozenbeek et al., 2022, AAAS) and a prebunking framework developed by the University of Cambridge, Google Jigsaw, and BBC Media Action, which identifies interactive formats like games as producing the strongest and longest-lasting inoculation effects.

Neither Veritas Flux, LLC, nor Jason Hill are affiliated with these organizations.

Extended Rulebook v4.4 (pdf)

Fact sheet:

Contact: Jason Hill - press@veritasflux.io - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonhillsolutions/

Available for interviews, demos and review copies.

Certainty is product. Doubt is free.