PLAYABLE WORLDS’ Polestar

polestar [pohl-stahr]: a guiding principle or practice

Our Philosophy and Guiding Polestar

The player experience is the cornerstone of everything we do at Playable Worlds. By focusing our efforts on building a solid tech platform, our first game, and the actual fun, we are able to chart the way to exciting, dynamic online worlds.

Discover more about what Playable Worlds is building and why through Raph Koster’s devblogs. For more of Raph’s insight into online worlds, you can read additional blogs here.

But First The Game

We are building tech that supports the future and allows us to then create exciting gaming experiences that haven’t been possible before now.

Revealing Our Tech

Online worlds lead to multiverses which lead to metaverses. And just about no one has actual metaverses to offer right now.

What Drives Retention

Retention is a vital part of keeping a game alive – you want it to be a hobby or regular pastime, rather than a singular, short-term experience.

Cloud-native

The cloud offers huge compute power. We use it to enable living worlds of vast scale, with rich yet accessible gameplay and better simulation.

Social

The best online games are ones where the other people matter. Careful attention to social design unlocks varied ways to play, a player economy, and player creativity.

A new universe

We’re creating a whole new original setting, with room for roleplayers and warring factions, homesteaders and intrepid explorers.