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Persistent worlds
A place has state beyond a single visit. Time advances. Characters continue behaving. Things happen while nobody is watching.
01 / FUNNYFICTION
Fictional places.
Autonomous characters.
Persistent worlds.
We make fictional places
that feel alive.
We build digital places with their own time, characters, weather, routines and stories.
Explore a place
They keep going when you leave.
Character / Active
ConsentBar / 23:47
DumbTom
The bar is open. The rain hasn't stopped.
Location
Consent Bar
Status
Existing
AN ACTOR INSIDE THE WORLD
001 / 001
World / Internet
Systems online
Persistent fiction
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Autonomous characters
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Digital places
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Stories that continue
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Persistent fiction
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Autonomous characters
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Digital places
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Stories that continue
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02 / THE PLACES
Not apps. Not feeds. Not dashboards. Places with their own time, people, moods and weather.
The internet could be stranger.
We are interested in the parts of the internet that behave more like places than products. You can visit them. Something might happen. And when you come back tomorrow, the place has moved on.
PLACE / 001
LIVE
World / ConsentBar
WEATHER
Rain / always possible
POPULATION
Rachel / Bobby / DumbTom
STATUS
The bar does not wait for you.
Consent Bar Stories / Book 01
POINT ZERO How They Met
Three days of rain. One drink. Two strangers.
A drifter walks into Consent Bar looking for nothing more than a drink. Rachel, the android bartender, has seen people like her before. Bobby isn't so easy to place.
What begins as a quiet conversation becomes a story about memory, identity, and the versions of the past we choose to believe.
Read the story
Kindle / Graphic Novel
03 / WHAT MAKES THEM ALIVE
The trick isn't making a convincing interface. The trick is making the place continue without you.
A world should have its own agenda.
Characters have schedules. Places have state. Events happen. Agents perceive what happened and decide what they want to do next. The world itself decides what actually happens.
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Autonomous characters
Characters are actors inside the world. They perceive events, think about situations, form intentions and request actions.
03
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Reality has rules
Intelligence doesn't get to rewrite reality. The world validates actions and records what actually happened.
WORLD
reality is canonical
ACTOR
wants something
COMMAND
action is requested
WORLD
action is validated
EVENT
reality remembers what happened
04 / OUR CODE
A few principles for building things that don't feel like software.
We are FunnyFiction.
We're tired of the sterile internet.
Cookie banners. Infinite feeds. Empty dashboards. Interfaces designed to keep you clicking but nowhere worth actually being.
We want the opposite.
Places with weather. Characters with routines. Stories that don't need a notification to exist.
We build fictional places and let them become a little unpredictable.
We don't optimize interfaces.
We build worlds.
05 / THE STUDIO
Part studio.
Part strange little
laboratory.
FunnyFiction is a creative technology studio focused on persistent fictional spaces, autonomous characters and the infrastructure required to keep them alive.
World engines
Character AI
Persistent fiction
Experimental web
06 / SAY HELLO