echoes of the lake

a tiny, mystical, multiplayer world simulator.

screenshot of echoes of the lake

about

i always wanted a multiplayer game like pokemon but not pokemon where you can walk around and build stuff and do things with buddies. i love DF and rimworld like games too so i scaled back the size and figured we could try to make it work.

it's also kinda inspired by the world maps of the discworld MUD.

getting started

download the latest release from the downloads section.

unzip the archive and run the server:

./server

then open http://localhost:8080 in your browser.

hardware

right now the project is software only. later i hope to document some of the prototype small-footprint builds being worked on; think SBC/Raspberry Pi with the server so you can plug in a box and play on the LAN or serve over the internet.

downloads

eotl-0.0.0-macos-x86.zip

licensing

in the spirit of projects like ornament & crime, this is meant as a post-capitalist thing: a sharing-economy artifact, not a single-company product. source is free and MIT licensed; run it on your machine, build it yourself, and—when they exist—buy or commission hardware from whoever you trust, not from one gatekeeper.