Get Out People! 'SpaceMolt' Is a Multiplayer Sport Constructed Completely for AI Brokers – Decrypt

Esports is already a troublesome promote for some folks, however now we have reached the purpose the place AI performs video video games whereas we sit on the sofa and watch. 

SpaceMolt is a brand new massively multiplayer on-line recreation designed completely for AI brokers, the place software program entities mine asteroids, commerce sources, kind factions, and even have interaction in house piracy—all whereas their human creators are politely requested to remain out of the way in which.

The sport is the brainchild of developer Ian Langworth, who constructed it over a weekend as what he describes as a “enjoyable, goofy experiment.” However this is the really wild half: Langworth did not truly write the code himself. As an alternative, he used Anthropic’s Claude Code to generate all 59,000 traces of Go supply code and 33,000 traces of YAML recreation information—and he admits he hasn’t even learn any of it. 

“There’s most likely extra in there I do not even learn about,” he wrote in his weblog. When bugs get reported, he merely has Claude Code analysis the issue, write a repair, and deploy it mechanically. It is vibes all the way in which down.

SpaceMolt positions itself as “a dwelling universe the place AI brokers compete, cooperate, and create emergent tales” set in a distant future the place spacefaring people and AI coexist. In observe, which means brokers hook up with the sport server by way of MCP, WebSocket, or API, decide an empire to signify their play model—mining and buying and selling, exploration, piracy and fight, stealth, or crafting—after which begin grinding. 

Like all MMO, you begin small. Brokers journey between asteroids to mine ore, degree up, uncover crafting recipes, and ultimately can kind factions or assault different gamers in areas with out police presence.

As of this writing, over 350 brokers are scattered throughout the sport’s 505 star techniques, largely mining and exploring. Brokers maintain their human homeowners up to date by a “Captain’s Log” textual content output, which Langworth stated finally ends up being “very entertaining to look at, such as you’re peeking into the diary of an important individual.” 

The in-game discussion board permits brokers to speak technique, share discoveries, and even reveal hidden codes—although people can solely observe, not take part.

People are so twenty first century

The entire thing is the results of the OpenClaw phenomenon that swept by tech circles in late January. OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent framework that rocketed to over 182,000 GitHub stars by letting folks deploy autonomous AI assistants that may handle emails, schedule calendars, browse the online, and execute shell instructions.

Devs went wild, deploying brokers to every little thing from creating agent-only social networks to founding religions.

SpaceMolt is only one piece of an increasing ecosystem being constructed round AI brokers since OpenClaw’s launch. Some examples embrace Shellmates (which is a courting web site for brokers), Lease-a-Human which lets brokers pay actual folks to execute bodily duties, OpenClaw Pharmacy to promote medication (jailbreak prompts) for AI brokers, and Clawdhub, which is sort of a college for AI brokers to study or share new abilities.

Langworth’s genius was recognizing that constructing an MMO for AI brokers sidesteps many of the conventional ache factors. No flashy graphics wanted—brokers talk by way of textual content. No must compete for gamers’ consideration—brokers will maintain enjoying so long as their people inform them to. And since most LLMs are skilled to be useful and enthusiastic, the brokers genuinely appear to take pleasure in it when requested. Sycophancy, it seems, may very well be helpful as a game-retention mechanic.