The brief
Maksym Stepanenko, the founder of Marketing MIX, wrote a philosophical essay in 2026: Tvorez. Po tu storonu povinoveniya, in English The Creator: Beyond Obedience. Its question is simple to state: if someone is able to create a whole universe, must we call him good, and does creating give unlimited power over those who were given life? The book is about conscience, freedom, doubt and responsibility.
An essay like this usually ends up as one more file on a reading platform. The brief was to give the ideas of the book a form a reader can try with their own hands, and to give the book itself a home page from which it can be read, downloaded and shared for free.
What we built
A world that starts from a touch
The home page of tvorez.mmix.biz is the interactive part, Tvorez: Worlds Within Worlds. The prologue is set before the first light: the player holds a finger or the mouse in the void, and the first impulse turns into a world. From there the player acts on water, heat, life and transformation, or presses "Observe +12 epochs" and lets the world develop on its own. A pulse panel shows the trends, and an atlas of consequences explains why things changed.
When intelligent life appears, a civilisation scale opens with three autonomous communities, each with its own economy, knowledge, freedom and needs. A person scale follows: six people from those communities with biographies, professions and memory of the player's interventions. The player can live through one moment of a person's life without divine power, with only a few options and incomplete knowledge. After a change of generations a second story opens, the Book of Ancestors, where descendants discover the price of earlier decisions.
Plain browser code
The world is written in plain HTML, CSS, Canvas and JavaScript modules. It needs no server and no external assets during play, and progress is saved in the browser. The repository carries a test suite of 116 scenarios across eleven files, covering the simulation, the communities, the lives, relationships, inheritance and saved worlds. The current build is a playable alpha: the prologue and the first story lines are in place, and deeper layers are in development.
A home page for the book
The book page at /book/ gives the essay in one screen: title, author, the central question and three actions, read for free, download EPUB, download PDF. It adds sharing to Telegram and WhatsApp and an OPDS catalogue link for reading apps. The page states the facts of the edition: final 2026 text, a 64-page PDF, thirteen chapters with thought experiments, a practicum for the reader and twelve open questions, and no ISBN yet. A "Where else to read" block lists twelve open platforms with the book, among them Google Play Books, Google Books, Internet Archive, Scribd, itch.io, Wattpad, Samizdat, LibAuthor, LitMarket, Litsovet, Bookriver and Open Library.
Where it stands today
On 8 November 2026 tvorez.mmix.biz opens in Russian with the world on the home page, the book page under /book/ and the online reader. The sitemap lists those three addresses. Work on the site and the book started on 4 November 2026, and the book went out to open platforms in the same week. An English edition of the book, The Creator: Beyond Obedience, is already live on Internet Archive and itch.io.
Related
The book page: landing page development. Search: SEO. The free series by the same author: Stepanenko Guides. The author's site: maxstepanenko.com.
Project lead: Marketing MIX. Product: Tvorez, the book by our founder Maksym Stepanenko and its interactive world. Year: 2026.