Spot 'Em!

Search through the crowd and find your target

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Spot 'Em! — Search through the crowd and find your target

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How quickly can you spot the Daily Hunt target as they hide in plain sight amid a crowd of characters?

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Unlocks various items for your rpg.actor characterHow to get this
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Your character can appear as a target, among the crowd, or as the Daily Hunt challenge!How to get this
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Spotting streaks, total plays, and correct guesses for profile cards and daily challenge summaries.How to get this

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Getting EmotionalSeeing (Being) Ourselves In general, players can be vain. Not so egomaniacal, but self-expression is a huge motivator across all sorts of games. This is why in-game cosmetics are worth over $60 BILLION annually, and part of why most popular VR environments have a wall of mirrors crowded with avatars. We love seeing ourselves reflected in experiences we enjoy, and rpg.actor sprites enable that across the open web. Whenever a game offers character creation, it isn't until the player is partway into the adventure that they start to identify with it. Our affinity for a persona is directly proportional to the time we spend within it. As the portable identities of The Atmosphere grow, they offer an opportunity for games to bypass that long attaching phase by bringing our chosen selves into an experience from the start. The transportable display picture is a prime example of this. Multiple apps already pull the same avatar image from Bluesky and we instantly accept it as ourselves, and are recognized socially by it. However, the static image has limited use and while there are some manipulations which can make it more situationally expressive (greyscaling, flipping, spinning, etc.) they're ultimately best used as flat icons. In contrast, the rpg.actor sprite is a decorated character clad in items collected from past experience, built to explore environments and engage in virtual spaces. As a class they are more alike their peers than the wide gamut of profile pictures, and more tangible than even the most descriptive @user.handle can be. This is why they work so well for self-expression among peers, the unique choices we make for their shared form do an incredible job of telling others, "this one is me!" Sweet Emotion Back in July we quietly updated the rpg.actor Sprite Generator to include a variety of optional facial traits, allowing players to customize their eyes, nose, and mouth to better express their personality. These traits became instantly popular, with over 90% of new characters using something other than the defaults. It was immediately evident... players really love refined expressions. With this revelation, we started thinking of new ways to help developers leverage these features and today we are pleased to reveal an improvement to the .sprite lexicon that enables games to more easily leverage greater emotions from player-defined characters within the rpg.actor system. !emote1.PNG Our .generator system and the /compose API offered to Creator Accounts already make it possible for developers to hot-swap clothing or items mid-game. With facial traits being just another layer, they could also be exchanged through the same calls. However, needing to summon multiple variants of the sprite into cache and then juggling them for every player was far too cumbersome to be practical for wide use. This became apparent while working with @wilkinson.graphics on a playable environment for the hijinx.world zine which uses rpg.actor sprites in a virtual hangout. We wanted to combine the scene's voice chat with open mouth traits to create a talking animation (like how we do for the VTuber Kit) and needed a simpler solution. Eventually, it became clear that extending the .sprite lexicon with a series of emoteSheet variants would allow for easy rotation between different expressions. Multiple expressions can now be stored as an optional subset within a player's existing .sprite and recognized with a clear id like "happy" or "angry" and come as fully rendered sprites with all the expressive changes to their face. Games can select the prepared variants directly, without a runtime compose or complex caching. Simply call the record, and pull whichever emote you need! Each emote also contains an optional talkSheet, which is identical frame-for-frame except for the mouth being left open. Just swap between the two sheets as you need and suddenly we're talking! (or talking, while crying!) Ready When You Are One of the essential features of AT Protocol being user authority over their data, we cannot enforce this upgrade on everyone, but we can make it very easy to obtain! Anyone signed into rpg.actor should automatically have the upgrade if they used our Sprite Generator to build their character. The enhancement is baked into all sprite generation and new characters will have it by default. We'll be making best efforts to assure that any actively used character receives the emotes. Chances are (if you're reading this) you're already set. Developers who scope for .sprite authorization can also essentialize the latest sprite sheet iterations by calling POST /api/sprite/upgrade any time, and writing the result to the player's records. (see Dev Guide for best practices) And... if a legacy or custom sprite doesn't have emotes? No biggie. The emote set is optional and the spriteSheet is still where it's always been as a fallback. Games can keep using their characters, just as they always have. Making a Scene Want to see the emotes in action? We've updated the Streampets OBS overlay to recognize your emotions in Streamplace chat and let your on-screen sprite reflect those expressions naturally. If your records are updated, simply type !happy or !sad to see the joy and sorrow on your character's face, or react with relevant emojis to trigger their new expressions. You can also visit the virtual hangout at hijinx.world where characters will flap their gums as you talk in voice chat, and show expressions based on your typed messages. Join them for a Halloween Party tonight (October 29th) as an official kick-off and we'll see your sprite at the fire pit. Your Next Move Streampets and hijinx.world are just the start, and we're very excited to see where else these new emote options appear in games. They offer a wonderful opportunity for developers to leverage our beloved portable identities while giving expressive reactions to critical hits, evocative moments, or gut-wrenching choices. We can't wait to see all the impactful moments this enables. All the expressions are there, and what they mean in your world is up to your creativity! --- If you're keen to explore this, or want to meet a community of game devs building on AT Protocol we invite you to explore atmosphere.games and join its Discord.Oct 28, 2026

Vibe Check: Effort, Risk, and Games in The AtmosphereOver the past week we had the good fortune to visit a private gathering with some of our favourite world-class indie game developers and (amid much revelry) chat a bit about rpg.actor and The Atmosphere more broadly. Having been so focused on this space for the better part of our last year, it was a good opportunity to catch a vibe check with some prominent game developers working beyond our little AT-bubble. The whiplash was sharp. While we expected some need for returning to simpler explanations, we were unprepared for just how surface-level the broader understanding of this technology was. Trying to convey its value to successful game publishers (who have no need to change) was an invaluable, but eye-opening and humbling experience that has given us better understanding of where this ecosystem sits in the broader game-o-sphere and how to engage with its industry better. It's Still Bluesky For all our community's trumpets sounding for Atmosphere Accounts and the infrastructural distance we've developed, it was impossible to even start these conversations without reverting to the familiar, "So your Bluesky account is actually..." talking points that we've all felt so proud for growing beyond. It's unshakable still, but not wholly negative — a truly blursed motif. Reality has a long way to go before the conversation decouples from that centralism. As hard as we twisted inside, wanting to extol the details and nuances of our genuine freedom, that connection remains the easiest method of building understanding among those with no awareness of the protocol. We simply cannot escape its port of explanation, or the shield its scale provides against our irrelevance and obscurity. By far, the most bitter humble pie. Worse though, when time came to engage and showcase some experiences, many of them had to look up their handles, struggle passwords from dusty memory, and generally fumble through recall of an account they've never kept up with. For all the leverage in familiarity that we gained from the butterfly's touchstone, practical leverage was as fundamentally challenging as if we'd asked them to sign-up to an entirely new service. We might as well have. There was enough interest in data ownership, our cross-game interoperability, and the novelties we presented to mount the hurdle, but where we expected great ease to come from the preexistence of their universal login, we found a new stumbling block in its underuse. Despite their already having a functional account via Bluesky, we cannot presume it has any value to them. Incitement must vary based on the individual user's path of least resistance. Going forward we will be reviewing for means to make a one-touch registration easier through tweaks to our existing Creator Account hand-off systems, then some opportunity for ingesting the quickly made characters through a later account merge. Trust In Games Once the handles were remembered, passwords reset, and the uncomfortable logins were through, things got much, much better. There was an almost immediate transition from the mild discomfort of a OAuth approval screen to the simple delight of their character generation, and the utter joy of seeing it launched from a cannon. While soft jokes about elaborate hacker schemes helped overcome the foreignness of genuine security, getting to actually play threw down all the guards. Go figure... people like games! More importantly, there is also trust in them. Perhaps more within our crowd of game developers than among others, there's an understanding of the effort required to produce a playable experience. Making good games is incredibly difficult, and has its own methods of reward. Scams by nature are lazy. It's much easier to phish via email than a game engine, and so there's an almost direct correlation between the quality of experiences offered and our trust in those providing it. This was unexpected, but now obvious in hindsight. While the games we've made for rpg.actor are at-best described as novelties, they do convey a small level of competence that sets the discerning eye at ease. Aware of this now, it encourages us to keep our standard of quality high, and to profess our technical competence more exactly. Big ups to our Beta Testers for all your past and future help in this matter. It Came From "The Atmosphere" Additionally, this trust in competency reflects in what we showcase. While we cannot (and don't want to) dictate quality, or control the open ecosystem of games developed using rpg.actor, we were made very aware of how the presence of our sprites and records within others' games shapes how we ourselves are perceived. While our own little amusements are strong ambassadors, our future is inescapably tied to whatever games rise from The Atmosphere and how these lexicons are adopted. This will factor heavily into the next evolution of our Experiences Portal. There is an effort-risk for developers adopting this protocol, and if we want them to take it seriously, then those of us deep within the space must take it as seriously. This does not mean some grim march toward respectability, or a rejection of the playful weirdness that got us this far. We adore our novelties, silly joyrides, and quickly built goofs. However, for developers to feel comfortable risking their years of work in association with the protocol, we need to begin the process of producing, and cooperating with "real" games. That status is a bit triggering to all of us with imposter syndrome, but our meaning is games crafted with deep design intention, higher production values, and the kind of sustained efforts that earn genuine cultural respect within the indie space. Fast-following a sloppy Candy Crush clone with an Atmosphere login, and touting it as revolutionary won't earn any respect from the broader (and less AT-pilled) gamedev community who are prone to stigmatize anything overstating its importance. The pretense that everything should become lexicons and personal data servers is a fast-track to the same peripheral dustbin that the Kinect and Power Glove currently occupy. Nothing is the FUTURE of gaming. AT Protocol is valuable for its interoperability and data ownership, but it is not magical. A Black Hole Called Algo One sobering reality from our conversations was realizing how little talented game developers need any of this. Building a successful indie game today requires more than "just" making a great experience, and now extends into the dark art of surviving the opaque social and storefront algorithms to court wishlists. Every thriving game developer has carved their own niche within the existing algos, or outsources it to a publisher. There is no escaping it, and it is their livelihood. When discussing the risk of adopting an unproven protocol — a genuine threat to those algorithms — none of the developers wanted things to change. The work they've put in to find some foothold and the fight to keep it has been as difficult as learning to create games in the first place. Those with success are entrenched in these machines and see no benefit for pivoting... so long as it continues working in their favor. Asking them to do more than sideline service is requesting they abandon the very mechanics of their survival. Interestingly, this is where the publishers got most interested. By their own accounts, their new talents are having a harder and harder time getting that same foothold in the old platforms. Revenues are increasingly coming from back catalogue rather than forward investments, and it's driving an expiry in their value as a pathway for fresh developers to find success. The latest crop of indies are increasingly wary of full-service publishers who dominated the seventh and eigth console generations and are now preferring lower-rate and lower-recoup investments from funding-only providers, since there's no guarantee the lifts from full-service marketing can get them any traction the way they once did back in the day when conventions, press articles, and ad buys were still relevant. Clever publishers realize this problem, and want to get ahead of it. We were stunned by the foresight of their questions, and their comprehension of the future AT Protocol presents. They want to figure out how developers can be willfully chosen for inclusion, in a world where everyone builds their own custom algorithm. The best answers our talks came to rested on the same tropes of personability, auteurship, and genuine connection that currently earn follows, but agreed that the mechanics of output and delivery may change dramatically if the freedoms of The Atmosphere become dominant with the publisher's role shifting away from megaphone and toward directory. Disappointingly, none of this felt like less work for the game developer. Our Community Obligation This begs the question: what is the actual value AT Protocol is offering games? Blunt truth says that a any lexiconal game data is just a .json which can already be owned via local save or cloud backup; no protocol required. Any developer worth their salt can already permiss data control, or leverage the interoperability promises we love touting. There's no escaping the necessity for co-operation, even in permissionless spaces. However, the true leverage of The Atmosphere lies entirely in transforming this co-operative interoperability into a known standard. Adopting these shared identities and opening their worlds to the wider community, developers are surrendering the tightly controlled (and very comfortable) silos of their creations. It is a sacrifice of constraint to the unknown, and invites an entire ecosystem to elevate, alter, or destroy the vision within their executable. NOT EVERY GAME IS SUITED FOR THIS. There is a reason that modding is a contentious topic among devs, and those who wish to protect the purity of their experiences don't do the legwork to support it. There's a world of QA headaches, tarnished artistry, and general ghastliness that openness... opens. This is a surrender to unknowns that most game devs who pour years into their work are simply (rightfully) unwilling to take. We cannot applaud the theory of open games without acknowledging the incredible risk that its adoption represents. If (not when) a "real" indie developer takes this heavy step, we must recognize what they have given up to support this ecosystem, and this community must be their cheerleading safety net for the risk to be seen as worthwhile to others. That means a real understanding of high vs low efforts, an appreciation for the nuances of this craft, and support within our feeds, networks, and social reach to offset the cost of their risk. These days, quantity is assured. What we need is an eye for quality, and then actually show up, play their games, and talk about them. More than that, we need to recognize the difference between novelty that flatters our ideals and serious work that leverages them. When (not if) we can manage that, we will see a modest success story emerge. There's no industry dominance awaiting The Atmosphere yet, but with strong social support we could see an integrated title holding an audience on Steam within a year, and its open data becoming the seed for a handful of connected web experiences alike those we're already enjoying. It will take a brave developer to make the jump, and we all need to be there keeping the social net ready to catch them. Jamming Forward Tremendous progress is being made. For all our hitches said in this blog post let's not lose sight of how well games in The Atmosphere are growing, compared to where we were last year. Our own project has only been around for 3 months now, and there are already over a dozen games / experiences to enjoy with your rpg.actor sprite. Over 800 characters now live in the Compendium, as more developers are joining our Game JJun 24, 2026

The Parade ContinuesYour Fashion Royalty The end of the Fashion Jam is here, and while we had dozens of amazing participants walk The Runway, or customize their looks with our Sprite Painter, ultimately only a few can be crowned as Fashion Royalty. Let's give congratulations to our three winners @goose.art, @meson.ninja, and @heika.dog who each get Creator Accounts to expand their fashion empire, Jam Medals for their wardrobe, and all our adoration. In addition, the top 30 contestants have had their sprites immortalized in the Fashionista Archive and will soon be printed on real sticker sheets that we'll be mailing out to them. If you are among them, there will be a special announcement in your inbox, and you'll see a claim button on the Fashion Finale page to submit a mailing address to receive them at. Thank you everyone for participating in our second jam, we've got more on the way! Builders Jamming With more jams on the way, we've added a new Builder Jams portal which is designed to highlight our current events and keep a nice archive of all our prior ones. If you're new to jamming, it's got a nice breakdown of what they are and what to expect. There's also a new feature to add yourself to our Jammer List and get notified whenever there's a new one coming up! Expect another Jam in the end-half of June! New Profile Layouts One of the things that's slowly evolving without much fanfare is our UI, which has recently had some really nice changes (in particular on mobile). With all the new features the old layout just wasn't working anymore, so we've broken things into three distinct dropdowns for Experience (games, places), Creative (sprites, etc), and Toolkit (plugins, documents). It's a little more helpful organizing things, and should offer more extensibility as things contine to expand. Much more noticeably, on your profile there have been some big changes to the way things are laid out at first view. Now, rather than defaulting to a single character sheet, we're offering a card-based overview that showcases all of the games you have stats for. It even has a special "Other Games" card for including a list of all the more stat-oriented games (like Clun's Cannon, or Proto Hopper), as well as custom systems, which can continue extending quite easily. Now when others visit your profile, they'll be able to quickly know at-a-glance which games you play, and can more easily recognize what systems and genres you're fit for. A great way to find new party members! New Stats Structures Excuse while we get technical... if you only like rolling dice, feel free to skip! When first building out our .stats lexicons we were deep in the mindset of, "these are your stats, they're you!" and so built the schema oriented towards the /self reference with all of the different systems having different header keys within the singular record. At the time there were only 3 systems in play, and it made sense to our dungeoneering brains... but now that there are more than 20 systems, our engineering brains disagree. The obvious problem with this design is that as more games get added, the single record becomes unwieldy, and new games are required to ingest, modify, and republish the /self key as whole each time they update. This can run into clashes, or careless developers (which we must expect!) could accidentally wipe out your entire .stats record in one failed write attempt. NOT GOOD! So, we've begun the scary process of transitioning to a per-system rkey that functions almost identically to the existing /self oriented system, except now every stat system is broken out into its own individual record rather than split-by-heading under the singular. It's simpler to read, it's cleaner to write, and it's probably what we should have started with, but one of the beautiful things about AT Protocol is its forgiveness toward these kind of evolution. Thankfully, we're still pretty early in the game(s) and have good relationships with everyone currently producing these records, and we have the bandwidth to help them upgrade. For our own systems we've already implemented all the automation process to upgrade existing users; just by logging in you'll find your records instantly improved while the old /self stays preserved as a retrofit fallback. Any new records will still write both for the time being, but the Compendium will default to preferring the per-system rkey and even show a little checkmark next to the system title when it's happy with them. Players won't have to think about this, and pretty much everything is just seamless automatic. None of the .master records are affected by this change (only their interpreters), as they never pointed to keys and only referenced system names which transpose perfectly to the new rkey names. For the time being, all of our games will remain in a dual-write method until eventually we sunset the entirety of the /self key sometime in the near future. Pathfinder & Starfinder OKAY BACK TO THE FUN STUFF!!! Since we're talking stats, we might as well mention we've added 2 New Games to our supported list of TTRPG systems. Pathfinder 2e and Starfinder 2e are now fully compatible with the rpg.actor profiles with an easy-to-use sheet. !image.png We've wanted to add these for a long time, so giving a very big thanks to community member @dneaves.com for their work on the schema, it made things super easy to implement and we're very grateful for the uplift. Streampets Enhancements Streampets has quickly become one of the most popular ways folks are using their rpg.actor character, appearing on all sorts of stream.place broadcasts as a fun and interactive representation of themselves from the audience. So, we've done a little more work to keep improving it and help streamers get the most out of it. Now instead of having to enter your handle to generate an OBS URL, the service now automatically recognizes you from your login and keeps better track of the settings you've applied between sessions. This includes the command permissions you've applied, as well as the badge designations that you've assigned privileges to. We also fixed the way that the Badge Repos are recognized so they now (actually) work, and added a real easy one-touch button to add all the badges officially issued from @stream.place themselves! Also, as a viewer you can now visit the Streampets setup page and see this nifty little preview window of what your character looks like walking around, and try any of the !commands yourself just by clicking on them. There's been a few changes to some like !dance and !sleep, and some new secrets in !transform to explore, so go ahead and try them out. Cross-Compatible Cannoneering Now that there are a few experiences outside the walls of rpg.actor starting to offer their own Catalogue Items, our dear clown @clun.rpg.actor thought it was high time we gave some respect! Clun's Cannon will now recognize certain items you've earned from other games and give your character a little boost next time they're being launched. If you've been looking for an unfair advantage, and a way to climb the leaderboard, then it might be worth exploring The Atmosphere and playing some new games! Creator API Coming Soon! For a while our Creator Panel has been a bit of an eye-sore and very developer-oriented. We decided to give it a little facelift to help improve the flows for creating and editing items, along with a few other areas, as we continue striving to make it a fun and easy-to-use system for all your world-building and game extension needs! To help our mission of making it ultimately useful for creators, we've been hard at work at a new API which will enable game developers and app builders to leverage our server to compile or recolour sprites, alter .generator records, validate composition, check item references, and check / roll stats from your character sheets. It's a very robust system and we're still working out the finest details with the help of some beta testers, but it's coming along swimmingly and should be available to all before our next announcement. Improving the Creator Panel and offering more things to do with it remains one of our highest priorities. We want to make sure that those of you who support our ecosystem with your upgrade get as much value as we can offer! ...And It Never Stops! Okay, so... that's a lot... but, what's next?! Well, we're cooking up another Builder Jam for later in June and we're in the final stages of testing a new game coming soon to the Experiences tab. Those of you who enjoy daily challenges are in for a treat! We're also working on some more character sheet options, and continuing to expand the Sprite Generator with more of your requests... so keep 'em coming! But, that's enough to mention for now. Thanks for reading. HAVE FUN!!Jun 2, 2026

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Last night we were working on a new rpg.actor Playhouse experiment, which casts your followers in a game with fixed dialogue, and one line required a third-person reference. Given that we're populating characters essentially at random, go figure it was handy having pronouns available as variables!