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Something I haven't talked much about: what exactly is The Pentaract going to do? This is probs important info for any #GameDev that's wondering how they can make use of my work. 🧵

18/1/26, 11:26 pm4 reposts9 likes

Trezy

@trezy.codes

18 Jan

First, it's a dashboard for developers to manage their games on ATProto. Create, update, and delete all your game info in one place.

Trezy

@trezy.codes

18 Jan

Next: a claim/migration system. We'll create game records in the @gamesgamesgamesgames.games PDS, then developers can claim their games and migrate them to their own PDS for total ownership.

Paul Rohr

@pevohr.bsky.social

20 Apr

So cool! Do you have a writeup anywhere about how this system is intended to work? Where does preloaded data live before it's claimed + migrated to the owner's repo? On-protocol in the app's PDS, or only available via an appview RPC call? Do refs to this data survive the migration? How?

Paul Rohr

@pevohr.bsky.social

20 Apr

When I've tried to whiteboard similar designs in the past, I've imagined creating distinct DIDs for each owner of unclaimed on-protocol records, then updating the DID document to transfer ownership later But I always got stuck on the issue of owners whose claim arrived with their own existing DID

Trezy

@trezy.codes

18 Jan

Once that's built: an IGDB ingestion engine. This pulls all the games and data from IGDB into the @gamesgamesgamesgames.games repo, giving us a massive starting catalog.

Trezy

@trezy.codes

18 Jan

The payoff: developers can onboard and claim their games. Platforms already using IGDB can migrate with relative ease. Games exist on protocol, developers own them, platforms can integrate.