i.
Combat that learns
A language model trains the NPCs to fight you. When you get better, they get better. The combat stops being something you can memorize.
— a world being written —
Vellum
An MMORPG built by one engineer, on systems that refuse to repeat.
The machine is ready. The pen is yours.
— what is being built —
Three things, kept in one place
ii.
Crafting with weight
Every recipe is a chain of decisions. Every market has people on both sides of it. The economy is what the world is made of.
iii.
A world that remembers
The merchants you stole from. The hunters you saved. The altars you found first. The world keeps the record.
— no installation —
Open a browser. You are in.
Vellum has no client to download. Nothing to install. Open the site in any modern browser and you are in the world — your own PC, a friend's laptop, a library terminal, a demo machine in an electronics store. Sign in, and the world is there.
Pledge a token on your phone at lunch; play from a desktop that evening. Nothing follows you except what you have written.
— a note —
I did not start with a world. I started with a complaint. Every MMORPG I played went stale. Not because the developers were lazy — because the systems underneath them produced repetition.
I treated this as an engineering problem.
— from the devlog —
The latest notes
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week 51 · 2026-03-10
NPCs now remember
The NPCs remember the last three encounters they had with you.
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week 47 · 2026-02-10
Marshes east of Ohlun
Three weeks of fluid simulation work; one altar moved by a pixel.
— for those who want this to keep happening —
The Scribe's Pledge
The monthly subscription to Vellum — five or fifteen euros a month. Or, once the marketplace opens, pay with gold you earned by playing. One scribe sharpens the pen for another. No microtransactions. No ads. Same game for every tier.
Read the Pledge