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Logiston
A strategy MMO you play by writing Python that runs on the server while you sleep.
Programmers who want the game to reward the thing they are already good at.
- Built on
- Python + Specification
- Specified in full
- Written out before any of it was built
- History
- 111 commits, in a private repository
What it is
Take the idea behind Screeps — a persistent world you program with code instead of clicks — and move its centre of gravity from abstract combat stats to logistics. You write Python that runs on the server around the clock, building and optimising supply networks.
You beat rivals by out-supplying them: combat outcomes are a deterministic and deliberately boring function of supply. No fuel, no movement. The repository holds the design and build documentation, structured so an agent loop can build it ticket by ticket.
Capabilities
What it actually does.
Programmers who want the game to reward the thing they are already good at.
Player-authored Python executing
Player-authored Python executing server-side on a persistent world tick
Combat as a
Combat as a deterministic function of logistics rather than a separate stat system
Design and build
Design and build documentation structured for incremental agent execution
How it works
3 moves, end to end.
This is how Logiston works, not a set of steps you can follow yet — it is specified and not distributed.
Read the specification
The design is written out in full — the mechanism, the edge cases and the parts that do not work yet.
Check the reasoning
Every decision carries the alternative it was chosen over.
Build from it
A specification an engineer can read is a specification an agent can read.
Specification
Made of, and made when.
Read from the repository at build time rather than typed onto a marketing page.
- State
- Specified
- Discipline
- Research
- Shape
- Specification
- Started
- Jun 2026
- Last change
- Jun 2026
- Commits
- 111
- Python
- Specification
- Game design
Related work
Built alongside Logiston
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