Private TestFlight alpha
Cartenza
Apple Music-powered discovery missions shaped by a listener’s reactions. Cartenza is currently being tested with invited iPhone users.
Explore CartenzaStories, systems, and products
Vytis Studios
We build narrative work, simulations, and personal media around power, consequence, taste, and the choices that shape a life.
Active work
Projects entering the world
These are the studio's current public priorities: one in private alpha, one approved as a public game identity, and one preparing for its first chapter.
Public identity in development
Merecross
Inherit a lesser noble house and make hard choices over household, manor, office, kin, reputation, and consequence.
Meet MerecrossFirst chapter January 8, 2027
CONTINGENCY
A serialized political-fiction flagship about institutions under stress, private leverage, and the choices that harden into public reality before an election begins.
Enter CONTINGENCYHow we work
Start with a lived experience
Whether the work is a listening mission, a house under pressure, or a narrative built around institutions, Vytis begins with a concrete human position—not a feature list or a slogan.
One studio, distinct worlds
Each project has its own form and audience. The common thread is a belief that better stories and better tools make complex systems easier to see—and more interesting to inhabit.
Ideas and conversation
The studio’s long-form work
Alongside its products and simulations, Vytis carries essays, narrative history, and links to an existing political-history show.
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Pax Ex Machina
Essays on power, order, technology, and the political shape of the coming world.
Read Pax Ex MachinaR
Rival Centers
Narrative history about political conflict, unstable power, and the forces that reshape nations.
Explore Rival CentersH
History of Modern Politics
An existing political-history show with Chris Spangle and Matt Wittlief, available through its own show site and YouTube channel.
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Studio thesis
Make the structures legible
Institutions are under pressure. Technology is rearranging power. Politics, culture, and personal life are increasingly lived downstream of systems people do not fully see. Vytis Studios exists to make those structures more legible through stories, simulations, and carefully built products.