CLOUDLINES is an idyllic, chill, romantic & mysterious multiplayer survival building game. Discover the workings of this world of floating islands, its ecosystem and secrets, collaborate with other players as caregives of this jungle garden.
The game is testing ground for the scope and breadth of a novel and unexplored genre. It's a process of discovering what it means to create something collaboratively massive multiplayer, perhaps eternal, suited for shorter intermittent gameplay sessions, in different timezones. What does it mean to build a world that lives permanently, what is the significance and interplay of these concepts.
Inspired by the ideas behind Autonomous Worlds, the game is built using MUD as a fully onchain game & world.
Over the course of time the game will move towards an open development process and will be completely open sourced so it can exist in proper autonomy with its community.
TBD
Buildings slowly build out the players’ specialisation and influence one another, create synergies with other players as play reach out to other islands with their constructions.
🛕 Wonders and Mystery Build epic civilisations together, and discover the mythology of the world; write its history as you discover it.
🌳 The Jungle The Jungle is the primal resource, it provides the resources necessary to live. By building their island players specialise, optimise and curate certain resources and production.
But ignore nature at your own peril, left to its own devices it will overgrow and turn what was once a village into a mystic temple.
🔧 Maintenance? Once in a while things need a checkup, the jungle will take back what it has given. Being next to an inactive player comes at the risk of having to maintain their structures yourself.
🪙 Economics (click to expand) (needs update) We’d like to experiment with vault-based economics where in-game spending in the native token accumulates in the vault contract. The more spending by players, the higher the TVL yield on the token vault. The distribution of the yield happens in according with players actively maintaining their island.
🔌 Modules (click to expand) (needs update) Modules are special buildings that affect other buildings in various directions. They are rare finds (while even more difficult to build), and provide special bonuses to their surroundings. Modules can be used for the greater good, or sold on the open market!