A story told through gameplay

Building the world of Void Runners

Void Runner launches with the Genesis Fleet Mint on June 15th. See more on our website or on Twitter, or join our Discord.

We’re a game design team, and the first elements of Void Runners that we designed were gameplay dynamics. We started the project by asking how can we use the blockchain to enable interesting social dynamics and new gameplay patterns?

But gameplay doesn’t happen in vacuum (even if the Void technically is a vacuum) — we wanted to fill build a storyworld around the game to give its interactions context and increase their emotional resonance.

We’ve started that process in Void Adventures, a text adventure game that puts players directly into the world of the Void and lets them discover its details first-hand. Void Adventures lets you with interact direct with drunken ship captains, perplexing space pirates, judgmental defen-bots and adorable little skinks. Writing these Adventures has been a joy — a way of generating lore that’s integrated with gameplay from the start. If you’d like to check it out, you can play it on our Discord.

Our next step was to start imagining what these inhabitants of the Void might look like, and what their stories are. We’ve been excited to share the work that’s come out of that process — you can see some of it below.

The Void universe only gets bigger from here…