An MMORPG where you control your characters with an API
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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.
HN · launched Jun 29, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 50%) · 0 views
Niche: multiplayer browser games · 159 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Marketplace
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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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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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 189 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #80 of 190 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 234 days after the earliest competitor.
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