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A new player has arrived … . We raised $2.9M from @BainCapCrypto, @tcg_crypto and others to build the next generation of crypto games hyper focused on composable user-generated content.
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Introducing “Warcraft: Keystone Edition”, an onchain Warcraft minigame built using Keystone. Keystone is our upcoming L2 framework that combines the EVM and a high tick rate game engine, allowing developers to build performant onchain games like all the best RTS games you love.
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🗝🥳.We’re excited to open source Keystone, an experimental rollup framework aimed to make on-chain games 100x faster and more powerful, built on the OP Stack @optimismFND .
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🚨.Today we’re proud to launch Treaty, our newest fully on-chain game. 📜
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🚨📜.The next chapter is here. Introducing Treaty - our upcoming fully on-chain strategy game.
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Alpha leak time🚨. Today we give a sneak peak of our new custom on-chain game infra featuring. ⚡️Massively parallelized ECS built into the chain.⚡️High frequency game tick with complex logic.⚡️Custom stateful precompiles.⚡️Built-in networking layer.⚡️EVM compatible. UGC ready
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Arriving very soon . A game engine, whole new game design, and plans towards truly composable games. We're excited to share an update.
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Curio is a fully on-chain RTS game. We're excited to share some updates .
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Today we’re proud to formally introduce Keystone, the best toolkit to build highly performant and composable onchain games for the most ambitious developers.
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We’re excited to announce our newest fundraising round, along with Duper’s Season 1 launch. The Duper conquest begins.
Excited to announce our $8.7M total raise to build Duper. Duper is where Poker meets Catan, with a twist of Diplomacy. Season 1 begins today. Massive rewards ready. All details below.
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Long time no see! We've been heads down building a new on-chain strategy game, and we're looking for playtesters to provide us with feedback. If you're an on-chain game optimist, we'd love to have you as part of our early community.
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On-chain ECS data, integrated token standards, player permissioning, treaty walkthrough. In this post we take a look under-the-hood on how Treaty is built.
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Calling all game builders @ Devconnect! . We invite 50 builders to join us in discussing the open challenges in onchain games around scalability, game design, distribution, go-to-market, and more. Co-hosted with @ProofOfPlay @SevenXVentures .
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We're looking for engineers, artists, and designers. If any of these inspire you, please DM us!!!!.
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🗝🗿🖤.We are hiring! Join us in building Keystone and our flagship strategy game. - Lead by ex-miHiYo (maker of Genshin) creative director with published RTS title.- Daily access to full stack game engineering mentorship from 10+ years exp industry team.
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Introducing Duper -- our newest social strategy game. Sign up to the Genesis Program.
In a world full of lies, we seek true believers. Duper — the onchain high stakes social war game arrives soon. Genesis Program now open. Join in bio. Spots limited.
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We’ve open sourced the ecs engine portion of Keystone that powers our war3 demo! Keystone in its final form will come with an EVM layer that composes between smart contracts and game engine data.
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📢.Hackers around @ ETH SF! We will be running demos of our newest on-chain strategy game, codenamed "Treaty", Friday night. Come hang with us + our friends from @0xConstellation labs.
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Thank you to everyone who came to our ETH SF event! We hope you all had a blast 🥳🥳. To all who played - watch out for something special in your wallets in the coming weeks
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Emblems are coming to Duper.
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Command fleets and battle with new mechanisms. Our new update is live! . 🎖️
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Congratulations to @Sa1L_1337 for securing the flag ⛳️. Treaty has been frozen in time 🧊. In the coming weeks, rewards and war memorabilia will be distributed to players. The team will also publicize a detailed post-mortem based on all our learnings.
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In our first blog post, we share a few tricks that Curio v0 used for efficient contract deployment and map generation.
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🚨.Almost here . Treaty Arrives next Monday! . Get ready to govern, command, and negotiate in a fully on-chain world. Game rules are found 👇.
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📣.We’re look to collaborate with someone who has strong Geth (go-ethereum client) experience on a consultancy basis to conduct R&D related to gaming! . Please shoot us a DM here or email team@curio.gg if you’re one of them - previous examples or experiences preferably attached.
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Keystone will provide first class support for DA layers like @CelestiaOrg, where in the future players will rerun transactions through the publicly available data for verification. Stay tuned in the coming weeks, where an interactive demo, using Celestia for DA, will go live!.
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📣.Are you ready to become an on-chain diplomat? We're excited to announce that we're hosting a treaty idea competition. We’ll be granting both cash rewards and exclusive NFTs for the winners!.
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We've been busy building the best on-chain game prototyping tool, and using that to power our first game. An update for the community here! .
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It was great meeting so many players and community members at ETH Denver! The team will also be at @Official_GDC in a few weeks. Oh, and stay tuned next week for a glimpse into Curio's future release ⚡️⛓.
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The category of on-chain games like @darkforest_eth and @latticexyz have shown us what could happen when one embraces the medium and start from the opposite end of the spectrum as games like @AxieInfinity. Orgs like @d_fdao and @marrowdao have already shown tremendous innovation.
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Okay enough alpha for now 🤐 … The team is setting out to solve some of the most pressing issues for on-chain games. More updates will come regularly - join us.
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Game doc is out! Learn more about Treaty's game mechanics and strategies 👇.
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Our game is powered by a network built by our friends at @0xConstellation, which uses exciting new tech stacks like @CelestiaOrg to supercharge a new generation of games.
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We think that the design space for game-specific blockchains is vast and unexplored. With the help of frameworks like @CelestiaOrg , rollups will look more and more bespoke. Composable games are one such genre.
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This magnitude of compute wouldn’t be possible through vanilla EVM execution environments. Through hacking on custom stateful precompiles, the underlying stateDB, the VM, and other on-chain components, we are combining the best of both worlds from game engines and blockchains.
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Duper alpha is live now.
Duper alpha is live. Real stakes in an onchain social war game. Ready to play? 👇🏻
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Most importantly, for the first time, the game allows players to launch smart contracts aka treaties that directly hook into the core game logic, such as “OTC Trading”, “Loan Agreement”, or “Sanction”. This is simply not feasible in traditional games.
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The first of many Duper seasons. Live now.
Introducing the Duper Preseason, a 2-week $15K+ prize pool event. Buy an Emblem, play Duper, win cash rewards. The Preseason and Emblem sale is now live. Here’s how it works 👇
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We’re also crafting a partnership program where we will invite select teams to build with us using Keystone. We hope to help teams learn the industry secrets in game engineering, game design, and beyond.
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The most prominent feedback throughout launching Treaty was the lacking infrastructure. We quickly realized that in order to build bigger and better games, we needed stronger infra hyper specialized for on-chain games. So we started hacking on it right away.
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An update is coming tomorrow! Here are some things we have in store:. ✅ Form armies with your troops. Strategize and command fleets. ✅ A resource type. Balance to survive. ✅ Revamped graphics and better user controls. Find more details here ⬇️.
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A new look. Sign up to our mailing list and stay updated with what we're cooking up .
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In the video, hundreds of characters 🐮 roam around a large map, executing path finding algorithms to destinations while eating 🍎s on their way, every game tick. Users can set new targets for these cows through interact with on-chain smart contracts. No more “lazy updates”.
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The main battleground is now full 🙏In the mean time, practice your skills in the "Sandbox" game! . Please note that idle players in existing games will be subjected to removed in ~1-2 days.
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In 2 hours.
🎙Andy @Kooshaba, Core dev of MUD @latticexyz. 🎙Loaf @lordOfAFew, Core contributor of @LootRealms & @dojostarknet. 🎙@tarrenceva, Core contributor of @cartridge_gg &.@dojostarknet. 🎙@guiltygyoza, Co-founder of @topology_gg. 🎙Yijia @0x1plus, Co-founder of @0xcurio.
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Previous generation of games are closed by default, preventing players from contributing user generated content that hook deeply into core game logic and data. This kills the potential design space for composable and interoperable games while hindering player creativity.
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📣🗡.The second phase has commenced ….The inner tiles are have now been unlocked. The game world will be frozen by Saturday Feb. 4th 12:00 Noon PST.Glory belongs to the one that holds the center flag
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Join us in changing the future of gaming. We are actively hiring across engineering, game design, and other roles.
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Thanks for the shoutout! ✍️. @donovanchoy @banklessDAO.
🎮Fully on-chain games are pushing the frontiers of gaming 🎮. Players can create their own on-chain rules, tokens and institutions within the gaming universe. How is this possible? Here's what you need to know about fully on-chain games 👇🧵. 1/6.
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We're also starting by embracing the "on-chain"-ness as fully as possible since the design space is so under-explored, while also acknowledging that there's tremendous merit in their hybrid approaches.
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We appreciate all the feedback, especially the lovely @0xCitadel squad, @CometShock, @BriefKandle. The core team is making drastic core infrastructure improvements to enhance performance and security in the coming weeks.
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At the same time, we believe more tools must be built to help all people embrace and take advantage of interoperability and composability. We must extend the "fun" of crypto for not only just technical folks.
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Crypto showed us all the new way — programmable smart contracts and a shared global state allows innovation to compound. It has already changed finance, and we think by embracing this magical medium correctly, it will change gaming.
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The public game lobbies will be open for the next few days. We’re hyped to keep building, ship new crypto-native features, and explore the design space of on-chain games.
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The players loved it and so did we — we envision game worlds where players and guilds are free to invent and dream, such as building asset exchanges, drafting up political agreements, or even issuing their own in-game currency and inventing new monetary systems.
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We are pioneering whole new architectures at the deepest level that complete change the status quo. To start, we’ve been building a custom chain tailored towards on-chain games that can 100x the capabilities of standard EVM chains.
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In early 2023, we launched Treaty, the first game that let players deploy smart contracts that represents political and social contracts with one another. We were astounded by the creativity of our community that proposed all sorts of wild treaty ideas.
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Treaty is a classic 4x strategy game where players compete by securing land and building economies. Crystal and food are the two in-game ERC-20s that drive the economy, each intended to serve different strategies.
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On-chain games require security models likely unseen in “traditions blockchains”. As we move forward, the team will think through many of these options and share them with the community, starting with Keystone.
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The game tick is also built into the block production step, taking user input during the last block and applying a new state. This can mean updating millions of entities at once, like regenerating health and moving bullet trajectories, is now possible.
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Since the chain is EVM based, Solidity smart contracts can interact with the underlying ECS state through precompiles functions, both fetching and setting data. We provide examples of this in our repo.
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Treaty includes a classic 4x core with multi-resource competition and a suite of new innovations. Most notably, players will participate in treaties - encoded social contracts that facilitate a wide range of meta-game behavior, from forming guilds to building in-game marketplaces.
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Treaties are game-specific smart contracts that encode social rules. Players will launch their own DAO structures, issue national reserve currencies, create profit-sharing agreements, taxation strategies . There is no limit to what a treaty can be.
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Complex on-chain games suffer from execution speed bottlenecks, as on-chain state bloats and concurrent transactions grows. Blockchains also miss key features games need to thrive such as game ticks.
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To build this, we've designed our own smart contract and tokenization layer that lets in-game characters hold tokens, an account abstraction layer that lets players delegate responsibilities of playing the game to one another, and our own ECS game engine that powers all data.
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First, Keystone comes with entity component system built into the chain - this means that 1) game logic is now written in Go, offering much better dev-ex 2) execution speed of the ECS is now 100x faster and can be parallelized.
Alpha leak time🚨. Today we give a sneak peak of our new custom on-chain game infra featuring. ⚡️Massively parallelized ECS built into the chain.⚡️High frequency game tick with complex logic.⚡️Custom stateful precompiles.⚡️Built-in networking layer.⚡️EVM compatible. UGC ready
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As the team works towards a more comprehensive release, we’ve decided to release a demo. In short, our sandbox v0 is a strategy game where players capture ports and cities, produce ships and armies, and battle each other. The game lives 100% on-chain.
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Most importantly, rules in treaties are directly hooked into the core game functions. If you signed an alliance treaty such that you are forbidden from waging war against other members, this condition will be strictly enforced next time the base function "attack" is called.
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We’ve been working on this over the last year and recently launched Treaty, a strategy game that allowed players to draft up agreements between one another. Such user-written smart contracts were enforced directly at the game engine level, something traditional games rarely do.
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The team is all-ears on any feedback and suggestions. We welcome gamers, developers, and all others to join our community here: .
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However, throughout our first foray into building smart contract based onchain games, it was clear that these data and compute intensive worlds needed much more than vanilla smart contracts and generalized rollups to scale beyond tens of concurrent users.
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ありがとうございます！.
🆕記事をアップしました🆕. 今回は、@0xcurio が開発するオンチェーンゲーム「Treaty」について解説📝. 社会契約をオンチェーン実装し、あらゆるゲーム内リソースのトークン化に挑む斬新なゲーム🎮. MUDではない独自のECSゲームエンジンを使用している点も注目ポイントです👀.
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Over the last few months, we've rebuilt our game from grounds up using our fully on-chain game engine. We believe this to be a necessary step towards building composable games.
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Treaty arrives in January. To keep up to date with the latest, join our Discord below. Happy holidays! .
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We believe that social composability and open data is the “100x feature” for onchain games, especially when combined with high stakes. We dream of a future where millions of treaties are deployed, spawning infinitely interesting social dynamics that we can’t even conceive of.
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"Treaty" is a 4X/SLG strategy game built on top of our token-compatible on-chain game engine (🤫), where players will soon be able to write custom multi-sigs, guild contracts, alliance profit-share agreements, all using familiar interfaces compatible with defi and beyond.
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We think a well-built game framework should .1) Allow 3rd party developers to contribute content easily .2) Achieve backwards compatibility for such content like smart-contract plugins .3) Distribute assets that are compatible with existing crypto/defi ecosystems.
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The treaty competition is heating up! Thank you to @CometShock @Roger_S and others for contributing great ideas so far. Hop in to discuss which treaties should we implement in the upcoming release 👇 .
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We also know that on-chain games will not flourish without solving the hard technical challenges ahead. Traditionally accessible game engineering architectures such as game tick, parallel processing patterns, and heavy data pipelines are not native to the blockchains.
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Moreover, in order for onchain games to grow meaningfully as a whole, we must focus on bringing the same level of experiences the average player expects. Experiences like League and Starcraft should not be foreign to onchain game players. We deserved better.
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Now that these necessary engineering ingredients are ready, we're focused delivering a first-class UX and better gameplay. 🛠️.
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Keystone represents a step-function improvement in how onchain games are built. Think of Keystone as a blockchain and a game server enshrined in one. It’s designed from grounds up to create a highly performant data oriented game server with the composability of EVM.
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As the game matures, the team will focus on building infrastructure that scale on-chain games to hundreds and thousands of concurrent players, as well as scaffolding the foundations of our next phase of our game mechanisms involving composable plugins, treaties … you name it.
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Game logic, organized into systems, is written in Go instead of Solidity, allowing developers to fully leverage existing libraries and 3rd party services while increasing performance drastically.
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