# story legos By [smolpp](https://paragraph.com/@smolpp) · 2023-05-11 --- the following design is based off [@apolynya’s](https://twitter.com/apolynya) [tweet](https://twitter.com/apolynya/status/1656547517939556352?s=20) describing their story legos concept description =========== * 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 how === * 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 why === * 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_modding) (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](https://cdixon.org/2010/01/03/the-next-big-thing-will-start-out-looking-like-a-toy) * thesis * future real world economic and governance systems will start as incentivised game experiments (gamefi) event categories ================ 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 components ========== * 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](https://www.imf.org/external/np/pp/eng/2015/102315.pdf) 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity)) * 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 --- *Originally published on [smolpp](https://paragraph.com/@smolpp/story-legos)*