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Foxcairn’s asynchronous RPG workshop

foxcairn.com ↗ · Personal Pages · score 84.0
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A private personal node documenting Coalhearth, a cooperative RPG for friends who are never online at the same time, alongside several self-hosted tools.

Why it surfaced

Coalhearth turns asynchronous play into its central mechanic: the fire decays while everyone sleeps, and every interaction is an ordinary write against shared state rather than a real-time multiplayer exchange. The surrounding workshop is equally specific, detailing a private-first server, a media renamer with 453 tests, a local AI agent, and a personal operations hub.

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