farcaster_rpg_strategy_guide.txt

Farcaster is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, primarily text-based with limited multimedia support. It combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, player versus player, interactive fiction, and online chat.

Building @warpcast and @farcaster / dad / like to read, cook, ski, code

Players can read, view and contribute descriptions of objects, other players, non-player characters, and actions performed in the virtual world, as well as the “real” world. Players typically interact with each other by utilizing strings that resemble a natural language.

The flexible nature of Farcaster makes it difficult for any singular definition of “the game” to become canonical. Conflict between players with different interpretations of Farcaster is a key feature of Farcaster itself. Indeed, one of the most popular games is “hey, fuck that guy”.

Unsurprisingly, few players put much thought into precisely defining the game that they are playing. Most players “pick it up” organically as they go along, inheriting the unwritten rules and norms of their peers via imitation and (limited) experimentation.

The key feature of Farcaster is that any player can interact with any other player. Any player can reply to any other player’s casts, or recast it, or quote-cast it. This bypasses traditional limitations of both “real life” as well as older web mediums like “blogs”.

Farcaster is also searchable, and allows casts to be “threaded” in chains. This allows skilled players to build incredibly complex tapestries of hypertext, consisting of thousands of casts.

Unlike similar unbounded text based games like X (formerly known as Twitter), Farcaster is not a game controlled by a single corporation and playable from a single interface. Instead it is a sufficiently decentralized network built on top of protocol that allows developers to run the game on their own substrates.

this is a copy pasta of the legend @visakanv twitter_rpg_strategy_guide.txt tweet

this is a copy pasta of the legend @visakanv twitter_rpg_strategy_guide.txt tweet

https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094684057173016581

we need some intrepid soul to write a Farcaster native version of them that touches on Farcaster specific unlocks and metas

could be you!

- connected wallets
- verified addresses
- frames
- rewards

While traditional MUDs typically implement RPGs set in distinct fantasy worlds populated by fictional races and monsters, with players choosing classes in order to gain specific skills or powers, Farcaster allows every player to project their own fantasy and define their own game.