Building infrastructure for living digital worlds.

We're an independent game development studio creating the foundational technology for next-generation persistent online worlds—where hundreds of thousands of autonomous NPCs live complete simulated lives, and emergent stories arise naturally from complex world simulation rather than developer-scripted content.

Traditional game worlds feel static. NPCs repeat the same dialogue, economies are simplified abstractions, and content is limited to what developers explicitly create. We believe there's a better way.

We're building worlds where:

• NPCs drive everything — Characters pursue careers, form relationships, raise families, and contribute to economies whether players are present or not
• Content emerges organically — Quests, conflicts, and opportunities arise from the authentic needs of simulated societies
• Systems reflect reality — Crafting, economics, and social dynamics grounded in real-world physics and psychology
• Consequences persist — Actions ripple across generations, affecting families, communities, and world history

Our core infrastructure is Bannou (万能, Japanese for "almighty" or "all-purpose")—a WebSocket-first microservices platform designed for massive-scale persistent world simulation.

Key capabilities:

• Infinite horizontal scaling — Single codebase deploys from one machine to thousands
• Schema-driven development — New services from concept to production in under a week
• Zero-copy message routing — Binary protocol enabling 100,000+ concurrent agents
• Real-time distributed simulation — Millisecond response times for NPC decision-making

We're developing Bannou with the goal of eventually releasing it as open source under the MIT license, enabling other developers to build their own living worlds.

Beyond the platform, we're creating the behavioral and simulation systems that bring worlds to life:

• Autonomous character agents with goals, memories, and relationships that persist across sessions
• Multi-generational gameplay where families and communities evolve over time
• Authentic economic simulation with real supply chains driven by NPC needs
• Cultural adaptation systems that create regional variation and social learning

We embrace intentional inequality in game design—not every path leads to the same destination, and that's what makes choices meaningful. We believe in emergent storytelling over scripted narratives, authentic simulation over gamified abstractions, and player agency within worlds that have genuine consequences.

The future of gaming isn't about bigger scripted worlds. It's about worlds that live and breathe on their own, where players are participants in something larger than themselves.