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June 2025, 3D Engine Development

  • Development: Building the 3D component of Septopus World to better demonstrate and explain how it operates.
  • Promotion: Starting to experiment with promotional videos and iterating based on feedback.

June 27 – July 3, 2025​

📣 Promotion (Content & Video)​

  • ✅ Tried a vlog-style format to document the development and progress of Septopus.
  • ✅ Episode 1 (June 27): Recapped what was accomplished in the previous week.
  • ✅ Set up scheduled posts on X (formerly Twitter), with 3 posts per day: 1 image+text and 2 plain text, starting July 1.

🧱 3D Engine​

  • ✅ Codebase refactored to separate on-chain defined data and simplify further development.

    1. ❌⚠️ Removed the need for centralized config management in the framework after detaching adjunct definitions.
    2. ✅ Clarified the flow for constructing world data, removed deprecated methods and merged similar logic.
    3. ❌ Bug fix pending: screen-based rotation bug (left/right movement logic).
    4. ✅ Split API logic into world-wide config and per-instance config.
    5. ✅ Removed all tab placeholders.
    6. ✅ Execution logic updated: all parameters now read from world config.
    7. ✅ Adjunct definitions now rely entirely on public config.
    8. ✅ Adjunct indexing aligned with public config; removed local definitions.
    9. ✅ Fully driven by on-chain data (world setup, adjuncts, etc).
    10. ✅ Player movement and logic now derived from on-chain configuration.
    11. ✅ Separated player positioning from first-person controller; improved structure clarity.

  • ✅⚠️ Implemented “stop” (blocking) mechanics and resolved a stuck movement bug.

  • ✅ Built time system for Septopus World.

  • ✅ Created a prototype for the weather system: weather changes dynamically based on block hashes.

  • ❌⚠️ Look up/down feature still not working properly — spent significant time debugging coordinate transformation.

  • ✅ Fully decoupled config from the codebase; system now runs purely on-chain.

  • ✅ Documentation completed:

    1. ✅ System framework, coordinate definitions, standard data formats, logic flow → framework.md
    2. ✅ Player spec (avatar parameters, movement abilities) → player.md
    3. ✅ World basic parameters → world.md
    4. ✅ Adjunct components → adjunct.md
    5. ✅ Blocking objects → basic_stop.md
    6. ✅ Rendering logic → renderer.md
    7. ✅ Three.js wrapper documentation → three.md

🧾 Rules Center Contract​

  • ❌ Contract framework not yet implemented for rule itemization.
  • ❌ No working API to output the full "Septopus Declaration" yet — intended for 3D in-world display.

👑 King Center​

  • ✅ Defined the basic functionality for King Center. → functions.md

🎤 Community Events​

  • ✅ Joined 706/acc Weekly Tech Talk on June 29 to explore AI use cases.
  • ✅ Registered for ETH Huangshan | Demo Day & Open House on July 3. → lu.ma link

📚 Learning​

  • ✅ Continued researching AI usage strategies to support development of the AI Center.

June 19 – June 26, 2025​

  • ✅ Started logging Septopus progress on a weekly basis.
  • ⚠️ Began shifting from internal development focus to external promotion.

📺 Youtube Video​

  • ❌ Episode 1 (June 20): Introduced Septopus — paused due to underwhelming results.

💰 Cold Start Strategy​

  • ✅ Explained the land-sale economic model and how early participants might profit.

🧱 3D Engine​

  • ✅ Deployed a demo version → demo

  • ✅ Mobile UI adaptation completed.

  • ✅ Touch-screen handling split into standalone JS lib with support for zoom, drag, pan → touch.js

  • ✅ Implemented 2D minimap with touch-based navigation.

  • ✅ Wrote basic documentation for the Engine → README_cn.md

  • ✅ URL parameter support for direct block access

  • ❌ “Stop” function for climbing stairs not yet implemented

  • ❌ World time sync with visual brightness not yet working

  • ❌ Weather system prototype (based on block hashes) not implemented

  • ✅ Defined Trigger structure using numeric description for 3D in-world triggers → trigger.md

  • ✅ Bug fixes:

    1. ✅ Switching between edit and normal mode now cleans up properly
    2. ✅ Fixed player orientation syncing at load

🎤 Events​

  • ✅ Presented Septopus product during 706/acc Ideation Session #3 (June 19), using a ChatGPT-style narrative.
  • ✅ Applied for FAIR3 Hackathon
  • ✅ Participated in Ideation #4 on June 26, discussed block sales model.

🌐 Website​

  • ✅ Mobile adaptation complete.
  • ✅ Log records now visible on the website.

📚 Learning​

  • ✅ Explored Sandbox to understand its competitive edge and potential cold start strategies.