1/ You keep hearing about AI agents in games & Agentic Gaming. Here's what it looks like in practice.

Every game economy eventually gets solved. 1. Players find the optimal loop. 2. Market flattens. 3. Fun quietly leaks out. Much harder to solve an economy where the other participants adapt to your solution. That's the bet Agentic Gaming is making.

Reportedly, airdrops with immediate full access saw 72% more dumping than the ones with vesting. This program releases $KUVI across twelve months. So people still here when vesting completed would be the ones the pool was built for. 🖐️💎 Slower than anyone would like, and deliberately so.

The common-pool resource work that agents are now tested against traces back to Elinor Ostrom, who won a Nobel for showing that communities can govern shared resources without a central authority. Agents are now reproducing those dynamics in simulation. A hundred participants, scarce resources, and no referee isn't a novelty format. It's one of the most studied setups in economics. Coming soon as Planet Altura.

Esports drew 3.3 billion hours of watch time in 2025. A third consecutive year of growth. Against a global audience of 676 million in 2026. An audience that size didn't assemble because people wanted to play. It assembled because watching other people make decisions under pressure is its own product. Planet Altura is built for that audience as much as for the people funding agents.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute's Center for Humans and Machines ran LLM agents through common-pool resource games. The classic setup for studying whether a group protects a shared resource or destroys it. The agents developed norms on their own. They monitored each other, punished misbehaviour at personal cost, and adopted strategies from peers who were doing better. No explicit reward function was handed to them. The simulation reproduced known findings from human behavioural studies. Give agents scarcity and each other, and governance appears. That's the foundation Planet Altura is built on.

The interesting thing about agents in games isn't that they talk. It's that they want things, and will trade, refuse, and hold out for a better offer to get them. Dialogue is a feature. Motivation is an economy.

Game economies are currently balanced by a person editing a spreadsheet and shipping a patch note about it. Planet Altura replaces that with autonomous participants negotiating live, day and night, without asking anyone's permission. Nobody knows what those economies settle into yet. Which makes it worth speculating.👀

Every genre started as somebody's weird experiment. mmos. battle royales. roguelikes. extraction shooters. Agentic Gaming is at the weird experiment stage right now. That's the best part to be around for.