Míani: The World Within
A living 3D world grown from one person’s memories, for their family to explore together.
- Godot + Node + Pythongame, world server, local AI
- LANshared world with chat and encryption
- Localspeech-to-text and document reading
- 2installers: family and host
The project
Families add memories (stories, photos, voice) in a private “keeper’s room”, and Míani turns them into a world of lands, seas, towns and creatures that the family explores and discovers together. It runs entirely at home, with nothing sent to the cloud.
Memory vault
A keeper app to add chapters, people and memories, which become places in the world.
Living world
Weather, wildlife, seas with boats and whales, towns, flowers and day and night.
Play together
Family members join the same world over the home network, with emotes, name tags and chat.
Private by design
Local AI for transcription and reading documents, with nothing uploaded.
Screens
See it working
Under the hood
Built with
- Godot 4.7
- Node.js + TypeScript
- SQLite
- Python (local AI)
- Electron admin
Míani grew out of Legacy Viewer, an earlier Electron app of mine where a family’s photos, videos and stories became planets in a 3D galaxy you could fly through (v2.3, Windows installer). The pictures show a demo world built from made-up sample memories. The Windows build uses a Godot engine I compiled from source with encrypted game data.
Next step
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