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Ludum · Games by Neta DAO

Serious games for a more interesting world.

Ludum is Neta DAO’s game publisher. It makes strategy games about capital, infrastructure and coordination, builds them in public, and runs them on play.netadao.org.

Departures

Ludum · Games by Neta DAO
  1. 01Project 18XX18xx · The gilded boardroomIn development
  2. 0220 Cosmos18xx · Interchain infrastructureIn development
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The games

All projects
LUD—01 · 18xx · The gilded boardroomIn development

Project18XX — view the project

Railroads, a stock market and the people who run both: an 18xx game being built for play on Juno, at three tables.

Family
18xx · economic strategy
Network
Juno
Tables
18XX · 18XX+ · A Level Playing Field
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PlayIn development · not yet on play.netadao.org

A gold line drawing of a steam locomotive bursting head-on through a torn share certificate, its headlight blazing and paper fragments flying.The market
LUD—02 · 18xx · Interchain infrastructureIn development

20Cosmos — view the project

Robber barons in the internet age: an 18xx game of blockchains, validators and the channels between them, loosely based on the Cosmos ecosystem.

Family
18xx
Setting
The Cosmos ecosystem, loosely
Plays on
play.netadao.org, when ready
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PlayIn development · not yet on play.netadao.org

An engraving in steel blue: a robber baron in a top hat and frock coat stands in the aisle of a vast data centre, server racks stretching away under iron cable trays lit in yellow.The machine hall

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02 · play.netadao.org — where Ludum’s games run

Nothing is playable yet. Both games are in development, and each opens on play.netadao.org first; this list changes the day one does.

  • Project 18XXIn development
  • 20 CosmosIn development
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Why games

About Ludum

A good game is a model you can enter.

Ludum · Why games

Some systems are easier to play than to explain. A market where everyone owns a piece of everyone else; a network worth only what it connects; a rule that turns yesterday’s investment into scrap.

Read about them and you understand them. Sit at a table and run them, and you feel them. That is what Ludum publishes.

Read why