I'm starting a new studio focused on protocol art together with
@neokry_
It's called Material Protocol Arts:
@material_work
We'll be sharing more about our first artwork soon.
Hello, world.
We're Material Protocol Arts, a new art studio that takes seriously the idea that an important and long lasting fine art world is emerging on Ethereum.
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Announcement time. After talking to the community, including the
@mathcastles
devs. I'm launching a Terraforms based NFT project to build a free, open source game dev SDK for the
@unitygames
engine that renders the Terraform data in 2D and 3D.
It's called Hypercastle Explorers.
Terraforms by
@mathcastles
is a deep, complex and beautiful on-chain project. In this 10 minute video essay I explain what makes Terraforms so unique, and how our project
@hypercastle_exp
fits into the ecosystem around it. Clip embedded, full vid on YT:
Terraforms by
@mathcastles
is one of the most inspiring extremely on-chain projects I've seen since Loot. This is the first output of my realtime 3d visualizer for it. Each token / terrain plot represented as a cube colored by zone to form a floating on-chain megastructure.
ANNOUNCEMENT:
🚧💿
The public beta of the
@hypercastle_exp
Hypercastle Explorer application which allows you to explore Terraforms by
@mathcastles
is available to download, for free, for everyone.
Walkthrough video:
Thread 🔽
ANNOUNCEMENT:
The first collectionfeatured in
@night_runnn
is GhostSoftware by
@heaven_computer
The ghosts will appear both in their original 2D format on billboards in the world, and as massive animated 3D sculptures.
More info (& premint link) in thread.
🔊 SOUND ON
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One of the beautiful things about Terraforms is that being an invisible multiplayer software artwork they can be visualized in many different ways. Here they are in
@night_runnn
using the
@hypercastle_exp
Unity sdk to render them in 3d
An
@littleswagworld
art education thread for the midcurve manlets saying it’s “just ai” and assume it’s low effort.
1️⃣ Bosch made a whole ass regular generative pfp collection BEFORE running it through stable diffusion to create the final art
WE MINTED OUT
@night_runnn
2048 tokens are with their collectors (along with a few flippers and dirty degens)
We love you all <3
Hug your JPEGs me and
@sus_seaweed
are gonna get some sleep.
🖤
Hypercastle Explorers and Terraforms spread in the On NFTs book at Christie’s
Proud to have
@hypercastle_exp
shown together with the
@mathcastles
piece that it builds on
Heading to Christie’s for the On NFTs book event
Proud to have our piece
@hypercastle_exp
included in the book together with Terraforms by
@mathcastles
💿 🚧
if my original Terraforms video was too boring for the zoomers in your life,
@poof_eth
is back with the remix.
@mathcastles
is easy to understand! It's for the kids
don't understand Terraforms?
finding the existing content boring?
your worries are over.
@k1ttenself
and i have been working on something that can help.
please watch this video.
instagram main account just posted
@supermetalx
physical AI ceramic work and it got 16k likes in 20 mins? And ur still fading
@littleswagworld
?
(damn)
The latest raw visualization from
@hypercastle_exp
in which we're now able to render the full Terraforms by
@mathcasstles
structure in Unity in realtime 3d, with animation
Music: "The Grid" by Phillip Glass from Koyaanisqatsi
Full open source and interactive explorer soon.
With fresh attention on Terraforms, it’s a good time to remind you that you can explore the hypercastle in 2d and 3d for free via the
@hypercastle_exp
Explorer app, downloadable for free below.
ANNOUNCEMENT:
🚧💿
The public beta of the
@hypercastle_exp
Hypercastle Explorer application which allows you to explore Terraforms by
@mathcastles
is available to download, for free, for everyone.
Walkthrough video:
Thread 🔽
Hypercastle Explorers is a community SDK for building games & visualizations for Terraforms by
@mathcastles
& NFT collection inspired by them
💿
@hypercastle_exp
Presale: 3/25 7PM UTC
Public: 3/26 7PM UTC
Collection trailer, sound on 🔊
Info below⏬
I was invited to curate an exhibition on
@______jpg______
focused on the Terraforms by
@mathcastles
collection.
This is an opinionated curation and also includes some pieces from
@hypercastle_exp
as part of the story
Mathcastles > Sandcastles
My one year story experimenting with NFTs as an indie game developer. The story of
@hypercastle_exp
,
@Idea__Machine
and my involvement with Terraforms, along with our new project
@night_runnn
The good, bad and ugly all at once. YouTube here:
Night Run the game is officially launching on the Epic Game store for FREE on Oct 24th at 11:00 am EDT
We're excited to finally open it up and share what we've been working on publicly
Big thanks to everyone who's supported along the way. This wouldn't have been possible with
Devlog 3 for Hypercastle Explorers
@hypercastle_exp
- Accelerated rendering: .1 ms Terraform per frame(!)
- Contract interface to C# complete
- Hypercastle color animation
Highlights embedded, devlog video w/ info here:
💿🚧💾
my new years resolution is to SPIN on the timeline, all these dry ass no-drip influencer pumped VC backed projects getting sprayed. We're upping the score on u lames.
🔫⚔️🔫⚔️🔫⚔️🔫⚔️🔫⚔️🔫⚔️🔫⚔️🔫⚔️🔫⚔️🔫
🏍🌒
ANNOUNCEMENT:
🏍 🌘
Night Run _OPEN_ beta is live on Steam.
Go here:
Click "Request Access" and you'll be let in immediately to download
We're testing for next two weeks! Join us and share your impressions!
The Night Run open beta is now live on Steam!
Head to the Night Run Steam page and hit Request Access to join immediately.
All players will be able to download and play the current version for free. Join us on Discord to report bugs and help fine tune
It makes me happy to see our weird little game made by a tiny team on the store next to the big guys 🥲
@night_runnn
is out today and free on epic games store
Holding
@littleswagworld
is getting me some fun avant solami NFTs, got Drifella 2 yesterday for free and Little Fellows today.
Gas is cheap af and the art is weird, get in the pool anon
V0.01 of the Hypercastle Explorer application has been released tonight to
@hypercastle_exp
token holders in our Discord!
Explore the Terraforms by
@mathcastles
in realtime 3d
We plan to release the application to the public for free in two weeks, and will be opensourcing also
The art for
@night_runnn
reveals in the next few hours along with the metadata and rarity.
The rarity works a bit differently and I'm getting questions so here's a thread to try to explain (with some pictures from the collection).
This is an ART ALPHA ALERT.
Thread. 1/
The approach of
@finiliar
in NOT surfacing all the metadata, traits and uniqueness in the properties is very interesting. It rewards close visual examination and crawling over the collection. The people looking at the art can gain an advantage over ppl using rarity platforms. 🧐
When the bull run fully peaks me and
@poof_eth
are gonna do MallDAO to buy a dead mall and make crypto DIA beacon 2.0 and it will just be huge screens radiating color into hollowed out brutalist food courts and dry fountains
Sunday afternoon doing some P5JS for the
@mathcastles
Intro To Computing Arts class, this takes a palette from one of the
@night_runnn
images and makes rave era
@TDR_Bingo
inspired line compositions with it
ANNOUNCEMENT:
The first major update for Night Run is out now on Epic Games (for free!), where we add traffic for you to weave through.
Check out the trailer for the update, and read the thread below for more info and patch notes👇
The Hypercastle Explorer application from
@hypercastle_exp
allows you to explore the Terraforms by
@mathcastles
hyperstructure in 3d.
@HEEEEEEEEEEE_
just posted this clip of it running on the Steam Deck by Valve.
Explore the 20 levels of the hypercastle where ever you go 🏯🏰
I've made a three day time limited edition on
@ourZORA
of my video essay explaining Terraforms by
@mathcastles
. Live until Friday at 15:30 UTC for .02 ETH.
Think of it as a chance to collect a time-stamped postcard from a moment in runtime art history.
Understand the ecosystem:
Rats 🐀: extremely short preference flippers, will mint anything with a whiff of bullishness. Out for cheese.
Squirrels 🐿️: longer time preference flippers, minting to hide in a tree until a pump, often seen larping as and/or confused with collectors.
My projects (let me show you them):
@night_runnn
*current* conceptual artwork w/ a video game, NFT project, videos, community.
@hypercastle_exp
3D explorer for Terraforms, open source Unity SDK.
@Idea__Machine
Sol LeWitt and robots from the future, imagined via text to image
@Hanrgb
@0x113d
@xaltgeist
Terraforms is a living autonomous sculpture computed on the runtime of the Ethereum virtual machine. It’s visualized through thousands of own-able 2d windows which allow users to inscribe their own data on its surface. It points toward dynamic computing and media as an art form.
Finally can share that I'm part of the Season 1 cohort for
@wildxyz
along w/
@_nic_hamilton_
,
@jonas_lund
and
@isthisanart_
(+ many great others)
Wild is focused on immersive experiences which makes it a great fit for my practice working with game engines. More soon!
Definitely true for me, I wouldn't have stayed in this scene 2 years ago if it wasn't for Mathcastles and the community around it.
The ratio of terrible bullshit to cool stuff in this scene is VERY skewed, like 99:1
One thing I’ve learned last cycle is that the game 99% of crypto ppl want to play is the pvp psyops info war MMO of unregulated asset trading, not video games.
The best games for crypto people are zero player self playing games they can own. Games as aesthetic objects to trade.
Little Block Machine by
@stenkirsten
, an onchain gen art project coming out of the
@mathcastles
community and intro to computing arts group on Persistence
.01 eth, 400 supply. Open to public.
Solidarity with the folks laid off.
Also it makes me a little crazy to think how much stuff I could have shipped with the runway they have. The ratio of capital to shipped work is extremely low. This space and the way capital is allocated continues to disappoint me.
PROOF has made the decision to reduce our team to adapt to the current market. We express our deep gratitude to departing team members for their contributions.
Our team remains committed, and we’ll be sharing details on upcoming releases and events soon.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Night Run private Alpha release of the game is LIVE on Steam!
If you're a holder and would like to download and test, please ping us in Discord and we'll send you a Steam key.
Thank you to everyone who's supported us to get to this point <3!
Deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Richard Serra, a tremendous artist who I admire a great deal. I just visited some of his pieces this weekend. A huge inspiration to me.
What is Night Run?
It's a conceptual art project with three parts:
1) A motorcycle game where you look at art
2) An NFT collection with imaginary fashion houses
3) A series of videos with commentary
Thread 1/
NFT NYC was better than I expected, met lots of both old and new internet friends IRL and am reminded that there are a lot of people I genuinely vibe with in this space and it’s not all bullshit as I sometimes feel
I kinda want to do a big thread of every NFT project from last two years who had a roadmap with a game or metaverse on it and just shipped absolutely nothing
They’re probably not even looking at twitter any more to be mad about it 😝
Talking to folks in the Discord it seems like Terraforms by Mathcastles is a 19 x 48 x 48 3D array of tiles which are individual NFTs with their own terrain data in them. And this is what it looks like. I love this project.
DEVLOG 4 for
@night_runnn
is out now in which I talk through the process of generating the speculative fashion AI photography at the heart of the token art for the NFT collection. Full video and more images in thread.
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All the "mEtAvErSe" word salad flying around, remember who coined the term? Hint:
@nealstephenson
Look at his wallet now
An ens, a piece by
@sterlingcrispin
(dope) and
a Terraforms by
@mathcastles
Those that know, know.
Tigerbob boutique at industry city in Brooklyn shaping up extremely cute, alpha for the discriminating fine knitwear enjoyoor, great work
@grelysian
and
@tigerbob_global
team
Megastructure elevation rendering accurately now in the
@mathcastles
realtime visualizer, great community effort in the Discord w/ help from
@uronsol
@dr_slurp_
and terraforms dev
@0x113d
We're on track to ship an alpha of
@night_runnn
to token holders via Steam next Friday, will move to beta a few weeks after that and then full Steam release end of May / early June depending on number and severity of bugs.
We're about 1 week behind but basically on track!
If the art for your project is dry, and your community is boring, how will you attract goated creatives like
@charliebcurran
to fuck with u and make shit like this?
You’ll be trapped in an endless cycle of wackness. And that’s not $swag
I’m seeing a meme emerge which is crypto art vs 10k pfps and I realize that I’ve been sitting in a middle ground that I like but isn’t a clear category: large scale generative art. The two examples that jump to mind are Terraforms by
@mathcastles
and also
@heaven_computer
My new art piece Night Run (
@night_runnn
) includes a video game, NFT art and a series of videos documenting it. This clip is from the prototype, which is playable but raw and will be rebuilt prior to release.
As you drive through the city you meet artworks along the way.