Procedural 3D gen game outshines Sandbox and Decentraland's $400M metaverse bet
Daniel_Farinax · x · 2026-09-23
A viral thread highlights freebotslol, a game where hundreds of bots daily push the limits of procedural 3D generation in a creativity-driven world. Commenter Dannyhbrown notes the irony: The Sandbox and Decentraland spent 5 years and hundreds of millions to build a lower-quality version without the fun risk gamification — and both once hit a $4bn market cap.
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