mosswane
/ cozy but mortal
a cozy game about a dying place. you raise a small, mortal creature and pilot it into a rotting frontier - to salvage what you can before the rot takes the zone, and you with it.
free forever · solo-pve · power is never for sale · your lineage and what it leaves behind are yours to own and trade.
free, forever · a creature that ages and dies · be a founding bloodline
the loop
go down. gather salvage before it rots in your bag. the rot-tide rises behind you the whole time. make it back to the edge and extract, or lose everything you grabbed. bank what you saved. rebuild your refuge a little. go again. and somehow you want to.
what you're really doing
not chasing a score. you're raising a creature through its short life, building a home against the rot, and leaving a lineage behind when it's gone.
mortality, the part that matters most
the husk ages every time it descends. one day it dies of old age, and its heir rises, carrying a memory of the one before. you lose nothing for this. no reset, no penalty. you just lose the creature you raised - something you'll actually be sad to lose. that's the whole idea.
the plan (built in the open)
- now - the core loop, the refuge, the bloodline. playable, and rough.
- next - deeper frontiers, a companion to raise alongside you, the long collection that wakes a final place.
- now - an economy and a token - on robinhood chain, via virtuals. it moves identity and legacy, never power. always on top of a game that is already good without one. a game first. always.
no costume
most onchain games this year are a money-machine wearing a game. you feel it in thirty seconds. mosswane is the other thing - a creature, a frontier, and the rot, first. the economy sits on top of a game that already works, and it trades what you are, never what you can do.
the firewall
a few lines we will not cross, ever. they are the whole reason this place is worth your time. the token lives entirely on this side of them - it moves identity and legacy, never power.
- what you trade is identity and legacy - never power, never a run advantage.
- the rot is the only stakes in a run.
- nothing here expires.
- nothing you buy, earn, or hold makes your run easier.
- free, forever.
for the early ones
the lineage remembers who came first. play now, while it's rough, and you're among the founding bloodlines. that's what the early ones get - your place in this world, earned by being here first, and now yours to truly own on-chain. no airdrop for nothing, no easy money. a lineage you were here to raise before anyone, that no one can farm after you.
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