the following design is based off @apolynya’s tweet describing their story legos concept

• story legos consist of a set of smart contracts/rules that govern how events unfold within a virtual world

• this world could be text based or run on a game engine

• genesis story seeds the world with characters of varying traits and abilities

• events thereafter are governed via predefined rules that advance the current state towards the next state

• chracters intial traits and abilities are neither good nor bad until the intial event which updates the meta and sets the world in motion

• events can be generated via majority vote or gpt4 call via chainlink vrf seed to update the current story and meta

• the purpose of these lego building blocks is that there can be exponential permutations with how stories unfold with each new lego block introduced

• replay the same “game” but with a different set of initial conditions

• change one small block to completely change the dynamics with how the world unfolds

• lego blockification enables rapid experimentation

• eg

  • infinite replayability via initial state changes (ideal for tournaments)

  • economic simulation sandbox

  • consensus mech sandbox

• infinite extensibility

  • like what doom wads (mods) did for games

  • app store did for iphone

  • and what the plugin store will do for chatgpt

• why games?

  • the next big thing will start out looking like a toy - chris dixon

• thesis

  • future real world economic and governance systems will start as incentivised game experiments (gamefi)

there are 3 main categories of events. genesis, 0th and nth events

genesis

• seeds the world and rules that govern how events unfold

• includes

  • initial story

  • intial mint of characters

  • choice of consensus mechs and their rules

  • economic systems, their assets and currencies

0th event

• the first event that defines the intial meta update that defines what traits and abilities have what advantages (and/or disadvantages) within the world and their parameters

• includes

  • rng event that initialises the meta and kicks the world in motion

  • initialises traits and abilities of characters and how strong/weak they are in the world

• eg

  • strength based characters are stronger resource farmers but x% weaker than intel based chars

  • intel based have y% faster walkspeed than strength but z% slower than dex based

nth events

• every other event that unfolds in the world

• decided by predefined rules and consensus mechs (see below)

  • can have totalitarian rule (traditional games)

  • or decentralised/democratised rule (dao based gaming)

• includes

  • meta updates such that players that are performing bad can still catch up and players far ahead can still fall behind

  • generative or predetermined story updates with how the world unfolds (depends on choice of consensus mech)

  • what needs to be built by developers if dao based game

• genesis story

  • initial story that seeds the lore and world

  • randomly generated via ai or written by team

• characters (nfts/sbts)

  • playable characters (+npcs?)

  • includes

    • traits and abilities

    • breeds/races

• items

  • wearables

    • can be used to enhance character traits and abilities

  • consumables

    • temporary or permanent boosts but are destroyed upon use

  • non-transferables

    • items can be transferable or non-transferable depending on the desired economics of the game

  • vested items

    • items that are vested upon receiving to introduce more tools for tokenomic system design

• initial mints

  • rngs the initial player set with placeholder traits

    • traits are initialised during the 0th event

  • free, paid, whitelist mints. capped or uncapped

  • mechanisms

    • first come first serve, dutch/batch auctions, lottery

• consensus mechs

  • vote counts

    • 1 token 1 vote

    • 1 character 1 vote

    • 1 level 1 vote

  • systems

    • totalitarian rule

      • single game-master makes decisions (trad games)

    • decentralised

      • majority vote with quorum

    • democracy

      • multisig of designated key holders

      • mechanism to boot and elect new key holders

• economic systems

  • policy mandates

    • price stability or exchange rate stability mandates

    • in a 2015 imf report they recommend low income developing nation countries to '“set a clear mandate that assigns primacy to the goal of price stability”

    • sufficiently advanced incentivised game economies are just small nation states

  • capital controls

    • closed or open economy

    • if closed then price or exchange rate stability mandates are not necessary (refer to trilemma)

  • currencies

    • fixed or floating peg algo currencies

    • basket of goods based currencies

      • currencies backed by a basket of ingame resources

    • external currencies ie eth, usd

• tokenomics

  • single, dual or multi token ecosystems

  • mechanisms

    • staking, ve(3,3), bonding curve

  • utility

    • governance, ingame money, irl revenue share