Grindmas is coming, and I decided to try research in public. Mega thread, here we go. I am working on my research proposal, the holy grail will be: Game World as 6551 NFT. Autonomous and automated. Shout out to @futureprimitive and @tokenbound_ for the NPC DAY.

@futureprimitive @tokenbound_ My first approach to the AW is about AW NPCs, AI, ZKML stuff. We don't know 100% how the real world works, but we can predict it. The unknown creates a depth to the world. Two ways to create depth can be: 1. More info so that humans don't have enough bandwidth.

@futureprimitive @tokenbound_ The greater the number of rules structuring a world, the more interesting interactions between these rules can emerge. The more elaborate and voluminous the body of digital physics becomes, the more complex processes, artifacts, and occurrences can take shape. - @guiltygyoza

But that might need 20,000 lines of coding or sth, what if I want predictable unknown from day 1? The second approach might be to build an AI into it, ZKML NPCs and Physics, so there will be predictable black boxes in the world. Check out @ezklxyz for more.

@ezklxyz Shout out to @0xhatsume and @0xvincent_eth for tinkering with me during the @Starknet hackathon. With the advent of on-chain Autonomous NPCs, there is a need for supplying a "Gas Tank" for these NPCs to draw ETH/LORD/ERC20 to pay for gas fees.

Something weird in the space right now is that the functions and contracts we built are passive. It has to be called intentionally by the users rather than automated. @Kooshaba is the man behind @skystrifeHQ to pay the gas fee for the "free games". We need to change that.

There is another counter-intuitive pain in the ass. In FOCG, the interaction between the player and the NPCs is like this: - Player: GM Lord, anything I can help you with? - pay for the gas for asking. - NPC: Yes, please help me with X, Y, and Z.

But in Web2 games or say naturally it should be like this: - Player wandering in the world with draw distance or we can call it fog of war. - The NPC witnesses the player. - The NPC comes to the player. - NPC: GM Gink, please help me with X, Y, and Z.

Pets, NPC allays and opponents are vital parts of world-building. To crack things down, I think a small POC is to build an on-chain pet to follow the player. Don't render it in the front end, that's cheating. Pikachu has been following for 25 years! Free Pika!