CLOUDLINES is an idyllic multiplayer game about townscaping from shanty to city between floating whales and islands.
As players build on their islands, they collaboratively discover the delicate balance between utilising resources, maintaining the environment, and guarding against nature's relentless growth.
Ultimately, there is a twist; any spectator of the game can influence global world scale events, causing fortune or chaos in the game as a living and breathing vivarium.
Conceptualized, written & built while traveling through Latin America; alternating between mountain, jungle, city and coast. The game is a translation and the foundational inspiration stems from these experiences, cultures and nature.
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 AW, CLOUDLINES is built using MUD as a fully onchain persistent autonomous 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.
Surf and go, play anywhere, no binary download. Twitch and Youtube style.
Combines the building aesthetics of Townscaper with the discovery of Don't Starve
Borrowing the best from the good old point and click adventures
Look around, visit your neighbours, see what is possible because your neighbours may have figured something out; and lend each other a hand
Tango with nature wisely, use its gifts too carelessly and they deplete, but without necessary maintenance the jungle will swallow your civilization
Discover the secrets of nature, the careful orchestration and cycles of flora and fauna, and take care of the animals that visit you and become your friends
And why the fuck are there floating islands
Holy shit why are people paying thousands of dollars to cause a storm and screw with my beautiful island
In time these questions will be answered.
If you like the jungle you can go adventure mode into this doc, be careful, might lag behind on reality: cloudlines.notion.site
Announcement are exciting, we'll let you know immediately when you're able to join the first season when you reserve a spot here www.cloudlines.xyz
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Audiovisual artist, engineering, game design & direction
Aami
Narrative design, promotional & technical writer