Quarry: A modern computing environment for your World

(lattice.xyz)

34 points | by bpierre 8 hours ago ago

7 comments

  • anotherhue 7 hours ago

    I would have hoped to at least see a section about how this compares to Urbit.

    Am I too cynical or does this whole endeavour feel like a solution in search of a problem? Are EVE players particularly concerned with monetary policy? (They are aren't they?)

    • jdougan an hour ago

      There is also concern in Eve about fraud and cheating, and not just between players. Individual devs have put their fingers on the scale before and something like a blockchain could make it visible.

    • vetrom 3 hours ago

      There are a great many reasons the game is referred to as "Spreadsheets in Space", and decisions from the developers related to the ingame inflationary and deflationary mechanisms have had sea-change effects on its day-to-day gameplay meta over the years.

      TBH most of the above is true for most any MMO where the scale of player activity can directly affect the game economy, EVE is just the most famous example.

  • skulk 6 hours ago

    I'd like to know how this isn't just using the EVM as a super slow database. I don't believe for a second that the EVM is spitting out frames of DOOM.

    • krunck 3 hours ago

      I was imagining a Minecraft-like game where the world state and client code are "on-chain", un-owned yet evolving. 2B2T comes to mind.

      • Y_Y 21 minutes ago

        TFA sees fit to dispense with the hyphen and just uses "onchain", presumably because it's just so normal and accepted.

        Less hype, more hyphen.

  • Imustaskforhelp 7 hours ago

    I legit thought that this was about setting up an environment. However this is regarding blockchain , I think it feels something along the lines of https://fleek.xyz/