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The first 10 minutes of play in the new @hytopiagg (NFT Worlds) game we're building to relaunch from the dead The idea is Minecraft + Runescape + Path of Exile + USDC game economy Made so far with @threejs (Rust/WASM + WebGLv2 + WebRTC), me and 30+ parallelized Opus 5.5 agents

Wanted to give an update on @hytopia traction as we head into Q1 2026. A lot of exciting updates, as well as clarification on how the platform is starting to grow, and why it's growing the way it is. It's very important to recognize that traction and growth in @hytopia is being 90% dominated right now by the Asia / Southeast Asia markets for those curious. This is specifically driven by underserved countries with language barriers and lower end devices that most mobile games typically don't run well on or just don't optimize at all for. This is intentional. We started hitting this first because it gives us a lot of wins short and long term. 1. We had to build automated localization infrastructure to auto translate all content of all games without devs needing to do anything. All HYTOPIA games now play in every major language based on your device language, automatically. This is a benefit of building on web tech. Using a UI library would of made this a massive pain. 2. Targeting low end mobile devices (Think $30 to $100 android devices) and running smooth on them unlocks a whole under served market segment where we can predictably pick up players and iterate faster on systems with more player volume at the start. 3. More players has continued to bring more dev interest, more feedback from players to devs, and overall just more engagement for us to monitor and improve from. 4. As the platform improves, the games are getting better, the engine is getting better, and we continue to improve retention (We're up 2x on d1, 6x on d7 and 12x on d14 in the last 3 months, this isn't world shattering retention but the trajectory is clear and we very distinctly know what is blocking it from climbing higher), As retention responds to improvements, we'll start rolling out and focusing more modern markets with more modern devices. 5. Since we optimized for the bottom of the barrel and all language barriers to start, the experience on more modern markets is only going to be that much better. All games are also default-global distribution without any dev intervention. We're a 4.5 star app currently when the majority of devices using us are some of the worst android devices people use by majority. The last piece here is we've seen a strong inflection point with our recent AI Agent changes where it's becoming so good that you can realistically build proper quality games not using just prompts to the HYTOPIA agent/mcp and using our point/click map editor. This will only improve, and we will very quickly (likely next 6 months) hit a cursor-like moment and product (wink wink, studio) for game dev. To the future!