My friend is part of a local parents email list and someone sent an email to that list mentioning he blogs about working on a video game. my friend checked it out.
This guy is making a 3d video game only using photographs of extremely detailed scale model dioramas he is building by hand.. He calls this... "the real engine". And it's inspired partly by Myst.
It's both awe-some and a head-scratcher for me. But it looks great.
https://novalis.org/blog/2024-10-18-building-a-game-with-the-real-engine.html