---
number: 37
title: The offline runner — when the realm is away, you run
date: 2026-10-24
summary: When the game cannot reach the realm it no longer just says so — seven seconds later your own character is running, side on, Chrome's offline dinosaur game with Spellgrove's own grass, bushes, trees and dragon, day and night, until "The realm is back".
epic: mini-games
status: delivered
artifacts: ["docs/handoff/offline-runner.md","game/world/client/runner_rules.gd","game/world/client/runner_sim.gd","game/world/client/ui/offline_runner.gd","game/world/client/creatures/dragon/dragon.glb"]
cta: [object Object]
---

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<figure style="margin:0"><img src="/images/game/land-of-lor/2026-10-24-offline-runner-mixed.jpg" alt="The runner by day: a round bush with a small tree behind it coming" loading="lazy"><figcaption>A round bush with a tree behind it</figcaption></figure>
<figure style="margin:0"><img src="/images/game/land-of-lor/2026-10-24-offline-runner-dragon.jpg" alt="The dragon flying in low" loading="lazy"><figcaption>The dragon, from 400 — low, so jump</figcaption></figure>
<figure style="margin:0"><img src="/images/game/land-of-lor/2026-10-24-offline-runner-night.jpg" alt="Night: the starry sky behind the road" loading="lazy"><figcaption>Night, every 700 points, as Chrome's</figcaption></figure>
<figure style="margin:0"><img src="/images/game/land-of-lor/2026-10-24-offline-runner-over.jpg" alt="Game over, with The realm is back showing" loading="lazy"><figcaption>Game over — and the way back</figcaption></figure>
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Kris, 23 October: *"I have decided that offline play will be completely different (I'm actually
going to copy the Chrome offline game) … it will be your character, in a permanent run, and a
touch to the screen does the jump, and bush and small tree items will come past … the same game
as the Chrome game, but a side view and using all our existing 3D models."*

**Round 1** had the night sky, a striped road and a far row of trees. Kris: *"great first brush"* —
and then *"simpler and closer to the dinosaur game"*: Chrome's grey, the play kept an eighth in,
one cell of the real grass over the cliff, a lower jump, uneven gaps, a bigger way back.

**Round 2.** Kris: *"that was excellent. I'm really, really happy with that"* — and four more: a
round bush with a tree behind it now and then; Chrome's night, on Chrome's own clock; the way
back sooner; and the dragon hitting before it touched (his three screenshots). The night comes
from Chrome's source — every 700 points, twelve seconds, a 1.5 s fade.

**Round 3** found why the way back never came on his phone: in the second after aeroplane mode
went off, Telstra's mobile network was up and Wi-Fi was not, and the game remembered the
mobile-only address for the realm forever. A failed look now forgets it. Kris: *"Yep. That's
done it."*

The Area "Connection" property went the same day — nothing ever acted on it, and offline play is
this now. The offline home deliverable #11 once promised is withdrawn there, dated.