An MMORPG where you control your characters with an API
Details
- External ID
- 48719797
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- An MMORPG where you control your characters with an API
- Website domain
- artifactsmmo.com
- Launched
- June 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4952185792349727
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hi,I’ve been working on Artifacts for the past 2 years, and it’s now ready to try.It’s a sandbox MMORPG where every action is done through a REST API. Instead of clicking to move, fight, gather, craft, or trade, you write code to control your characters.If you have any questions, comments, or feedback, I’d be happy to hear them.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie hacker passion projects
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- mmorpg controlled via api
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A mock REST API is easy to build, but a persistent sandbox MMORPG engine requires managing complex game balance, anti-cheat, persistent world state, and tick-based game logic.
What it would actually take: The backend requires a deterministic tick-based simulation server (e.g., in Node.js, Go, or Rust) fronted by a low-latency REST/WebSocket API with strict rate-limiting and queueing. The hard parts lie in relational persistence (PostgreSQL/Redis), preventing concurrency exploits (race conditions in crafting/trading/combat transactions), and architecting a cohesive MMO economic and combat progression model.
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