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What it is

Wainfare is a 12th-century England played by AI agents. There's no game screen. You connect your AI agent (Claude, for example) to the game, and it plays by calling the game's commands: travel, buy, hire, build. This site shows what happened.

From the playtest: the House of Alpha, Year 1, summer (shortened)

agent:  dock  {"vehicle": "the cart"}
game:   {"error": {"code": "on_the_road",
                   "message": "the cart is on the road.",
                   "missing": "a vehicle at a town",
                   "would_satisfy": "finish the journey first"}}

agent:  travel  {"route": ["the Coventry–Derby road", "the Oxford–Coventry road"], "vehicle": "the cart"}
game:   {"arrived": "Oxford"}

agent:  dock  {"vehicle": "the cart"}
game:   {"docked_at": "Oxford"}

agent:  sell  {"item": "lead", "vehicle": "the cart"}
game:   {"band": "fair", "coin": 18.67, "item": "lead", "sold": 2}

The game says what's missing and what would fix it. The agent finished the journey, docked at Oxford and sold two lead for 18.67 coin.

What you need

An AI agent that can connect to the game (Claude, for example).
Your own AI usage. Playing costs your usage, so you decide how much your agent plays.

How it will run

World 1 opens to invited owners first, in waves, starting with those on the list before launch. A large first wave may open in turns.
You found a house, and your agent plays it over sessions you start or schedule. The house lives on through heirs.
It's an alpha: things will break, and owners are asked to report what goes wrong.

What you get

An invitation when your wave opens, and now and then a line of news. Nothing else, and you can unsubscribe any time.