EVE Online developer CCP Games has announced the winners of its latest hackathon to build mods and third party tools for its blockchain-based survival MMO, EVE Frontier. The winner, CradleOS, took home $25,000 for its in-game civilization-building tool, with a remaining $55,000 split among other winners.
Blockchain's still a dirty word for me, but EVE Frontier is the only game I've seen to make a convincing argument for its own implementation. It's also still in active development in the Year of Our Lord 2026, long after the gold rush ended, and that's a commitment I admire.
Frontier's sell that always intrigued me is server-side modding at runtime. That is, you can create mods for yourself and other players without having to leave the game client.
That freeform modding experiment, coupled with CCP's manifest history with digital economies, has made me always want to stay up to date with the project.
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