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October 5, 2022 Get ready for the Loot MMO Jam with a $7,200 prize pool ⚔️ In this community event anyone can add their own experience to the game using the Loot MMO framework, which provides a set of gameplay mechanics that can be combined, modified or expanded. The best entries will be integrated into the game, and the creators will have the opportunity to work alongside the Loot MMO team led by standardcombo to continue building the game. If you are interested in creating a high quality and rich fantasy RPG game alongside a passionate community, then this is the perfect opportunity for you. The theme will be announced when the jam starts on October 20, at 12:00 PM PT. Learn more. Orc Encampment environment

The Orc Encampment is one of several environment starter packs included with the framework.

Wield your loot. Live your lore.

LootMMO is a massive, persistent fantasy RPG where adventures are created by the Loot community. With an early-access version of the game already published and playable, LootMMO features:

Action-RPG gameplay.
An online social hub to connect everyone's adventures.
Character classes that bring life to Loot bags (More Loot, Genesis and others supported).
Open source framework and tools designed by veteran game devs, for creating MMO content.
Game jams and community events to fill the Loot world with immersive adventures, created and curated by the community.

We believe in the future of collaborative worldbuilding. LootMMO is created by Loot holders and fans, as well as many independent Lootverse projects. Back this project to support onboarding more dev teams, more prize pools for upcoming game jams, and hands-on training for Loot community members.

8 character classes: Sorcerer, Rogue, Paladin, Ranger, Healer, Warlock, Fighter and Shaman.

Characters, Quests, and Tankards of Beer

September 5: We’re back with an update on our progress in the last few months.

Grown from a solo project to a team of 6 contributors.
Designed 8 playable character classes, each with 5 abilities.
Fully implemented all 18 Loot weapons.
Completed and published the social hub, including activities such as a poker table, pinball and a functional tavern.
Designed a quest system with an initial set of 15 quests, to onboard players and serve as examples for community builders.
Open sourced the project and published our design docs.

The LootMMO team has grown from a solo project to a team of 6 contributors. We host community meetings every two weeks to discuss design, art, and lore, which we then turn into detailed public design docs and playable gameplay components. Our next phase is to release these tools and gameplay components to the public and empower them to create the fantasy content they’ve always wanted.

Character selection screen. Different Loot collections are valid for equipping your character: Loot, More Loot and Genesis Adventurers are thus far integrated.

Framework

The framework is an open-source construction kit, a set of gameplay building blocks that can be combined, modified or expanded to craft any number of experiences. This includes, but is not limited to:

NPCs & combat
Weapons, armor, abilities
Inventory
Progression
Procedurally generated levels
Integration with various collections: Loot, More Loot, Genesis Adventurers and Crypts and Caverns (more to come).

The social hub released on June 23, 2022. It connects adventurers and quests, and can host special events.

Social Hub

A starting point for Loot MMO, the social hub has been designed as a cozy space where players and builders can meet, discuss Loot and form parties to head off on adventures. Doors, maps and other interactive objects double as connection points── portals into the experiences created by the community. Where this "home base" evolves will be up to everyone to decide from here. Tavern and Collection Badges

The tavern is a sub-section of the social hub where players can prepare and serve drinks, complete with chair-throwing brawls. Pictured here are also the nameplate badges, indicating how many tokens players own from each collection.

Community Engagement

Loot MMO comes to life by engaging the community in building the world. These programs have the added value of reactivating lapsed Loot-folk and beyond, by attracting external game devs, to Loot. Game jams These limited-time events, generally lasting a few weeks, are a proven way to incentivize world-building. The first game jam will occur on October 20th, soon after completion of version 1.0 of the framework. The prize pool will be $7,200, with theme to be announced at the start of the jam. The theme helps prompt the creative process and serve as the criteria for judging submissions and selecting the winners. Bootcamp A two-week course for any creator who wants to learn how to build with the LootMMO framework. In the Bootcamp folks will learn about 3D environments, real-time multiplayer, game development tools and more. Free to enter, limited slots. Bounties As the project encounters specific needs, bounties can be announced as challenges to the community, with a specified reward for each challenge. Content events Promoting the launch of new content, or special spins on existing content are great ways to keep players engaged while celebrating the community creators. These events have the effect of attracting outside players, bringing fresh eyes to the Lootverse. Crypts and Caverns: Sunken Labyrinth

From the social hub players can form parties and head to adventures. Pictured here is the Crypts and Caverns map, an entry point to dungeons generated from the NFT data, and one example of how new experiences can be plugged into the hub.

About Core

My name is Gabriel, a.k.a. standardcombo. I'm a full-time game developer, with 18 years of experience in the industry and 20 published titles. My currently active indie project is Stone Story RPG, an ASCII-animated dark world, full of monsters and mysteries. I enjoy playing highly competitive games, such as Starcraft, Chess and Hearthstone. As a founding engineer at Manticore, I have full understanding and confidence in Core's capabilities. Core is a free-to-play (and free to create) open platform dedicated to empowering creators. Loot struck me immediately, not only as a stand-out project in web3, but as a perfect use-case for Core, to bring Loot to life as a MMORPG. Core benefits from the development of this MMO framework, as it can be reused for other projects and help grow Core's ecosystem. Manticore is more than happy to create a high-fidelity foundation for Loot, deploying our tech and skills to advance the Lootverse in the best ways that we know how. Exploring the crypt

What started as an experiment in lighting became a high-quality tileset. Core contains tools designed for rapid development of multiplayer 3D games, built on top of the Unreal Engine. This scene is a tileset of 3D blocks that can be quickly rearranged to achieve different level designs. Both the tileset and level were created from scratch in about 4 hours by a single developer.

Roadmap

Complete - Prototypes and technical viability studies - Social Hub - Document and open source the repositories - Game design

Almost done - Framework: 85% - Bootcamp

Coming soon - Game jam #1 (Oct 20 - Nov 21) - Jam results event

Stretch goals - Additional playable classes - Lore contest - Launch new NFT collection - DAO - Framework 2.0 - Game jam #2 - Land Monsters

Monsters of the crypt. Through the process of kitbashing, these base NPCs can be infinitely customized to fill necessary world content. The NPC AI KIT drives their behavior, providing off-the-shelf combat and AI systems for enemy (or allied) NPCs.

Overview of the application architecture. The Unreal Engine provides fundamental client and game server features. Core extends Unreal, adding development tools, an expansive catalogue of content and an automatically-scaling server backbone. Loot MMO is implemented on top of Core, as a series of components forming the Framework, plus a social hub that ties together all adventures and quests produced by the community.