edited by vera For today’s Devs on Devs, we sat down with opnpc and 5p0rt5BEArD of Downstream, “the world's first Post Singularity Civilisation Simulator.” In this chat, the two spoke about all kinds of origins, building in Downstream, and what we can learn from gaming’s past. You can play Downstream, check out their builder docs, and learn more ab

edited by vera For this installment of Devs on Devs, we sat down with ARB and Alex Declino of Moving Castles, the team behind This Cursed Machine (TCM). TCM is “a scifi horror warehouse management RPG” where you, a stump, fulfill orders from the game’s eponymous company, and earn $BUGS as a reward. In this chat, the team discussed their inspiration

Edited by vera Dhrumil Shah and Dhvani Patel are the team behind Biomes, an onchain, Minecraft-like sandbox where you can explore, mine, craft, attack, and compete in user-generated experiences. We’ve known the team for almost a year, back when Biomes was known as Tenet, and the team was building a multi-layer, multidimensional physics simulation e

edited by vera For our latest installment of Devs on Devs, which we’re releasing for the Redstone Race to Mainnet, we sat down with Cherry Blue and 9STX6 of the Dark Forest Archon team. The team is building Dark Forest Ares, a community-run deployment of Dark Forest on Redstone. In this interview, the two devs discussed the glory of Dark Forest plu

by Dante, Jseam, and Sofia. Edited by vera The Autonomous Worlds Thesis Autonomous worlds are digital ecosystems governed by their own set of rules and entities. These worlds, much like physical or conceptual spaces we inhabit, operate under a unique “diegesis” or the set of conditions that define what exists within their boundaries. Examples range

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by Neilson Autonomy & Automation You need to be world maxxing. You need to be automating your autonomy. Developing emergence. Creating emergencies. NPCs. AI. You need to be mocking those with the sight of what they might have known. You need to build a big bonfire, each player a hot coal. At the altar of autonomy, the crystal sword plunges towa

edited by vera, cover image by turbo For this installment of Devs on Devs, we sat down with alvarius, one of the core developers of MUD, and Dhvani, an engineer on the Tenet team. Tenet is developing an onchain multiplayer simulation environment, loosely based off of OPCraft, which alvarius and other members of the Lattice team released last year.

edited by vera and Emerson, cover image by turbo For our next installment of Devs on Devs, we spoke to the Primodium team about their adventures building onchain games — and the wisdom they picked up from the hackathons, personal projects, and startups they worked on beforehand. Emerson and Morris are brothers who started out building web2 projects

edited by vera, cover image by kooshaza From July 31st to August 4th 2023, Lattice hosted a small summit for onchain application developers building on MUD. The week illuminated just how far MUD and the teams using it have come in a short amount of time. Our previous summit, in Fall 2022, was a residency where teams tested out MUD v1 and built hack