Phaethon

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playphaethon.com

The project has its own domain. Within two hours of registering it, the website, the docs, the download store and the sign-in page were all running on it.

The new domain holding four parts of Phaethon, the website, the docs, the download store and the sign-in page
The website, the docs, the download store and the sign-in page, on one address in about two hours.
on this page
  1. The docs, rebuilt every fifteen minutes
  2. A site that loads nothing from anywhere else
  3. Since then

On September 26th Phaethon got an address of its own. The domain was registered just before one in the afternoon, and within about two hours the documentation, the launcher's download store, the sign-in page and the website were all running on it. The website and the docs were born there; the rest moved in. The forge, where the code and the issues live, stayed where it was, and so, for now, do the runtime's own files.

The docs, rebuilt every fifteen minutes

The documentation at /docs/ is the project's wiki, turned into pages in the launcher's colors and fonts. It is rebuilt every fifteen minutes. Each build is written beside the live copy and swapped in all at once, so a reader never lands on a half-finished page.

A site that loads nothing from anywhere else

The rest of the site is built from plain text files: the words of each page, these posts, and the facts the build reads from the code itself, such as how many source files each game has. The fonts, icons and scripts are all served from this domain. The site sets no cookies and loads nothing from another site, so reading it tells nobody else that you did.

Since then

The first version held the four games, the latest releases, a download page and an about page. It has grown since: these news posts and their timeline, the roadmap, a page for each core, and the launcher's own page, where the download lives.

The home page of playphaethon.com, a Jak II clip playing inside the turning seal behind the title
The front page as it stands today: the seal behind the title, with a Jak II clip playing inside it, on the website that has run on the new domain since its first day.

Alex (maintainer, and a mechanical engineer by trade)

Sep 26, 2026 · siteEvery post
Phaethon

Built with AI in the loop. Phaethon uses AI assistance for speed and accuracy, and holds it to the same bar as every other contribution: every change is read, tested and checked against the console before it lands.

develop 539d7618 CI green v0.2.1 Nov 12, 2026

Phaethon is an unofficial fan project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or associated with Sony Interactive Entertainment, Naughty Dog or the OpenGOAL project. Jak and Daxter is a trademark of Sony Interactive Entertainment. You need your own copy of each game. Icons from Lucide, ISC; JetBrains Mono under the SIL Open Font License.

Under construction

This site is still being built.

Nothing links to playphaethon.com yet, so you have found it before it is ready. Some of what it says may be wrong, out of date or attributed to the wrong source. Treat it as a work in progress until this notice is gone.