Introduction & Game setup

Straylight Protocol is a set of Smart Contracts that facilitate multiparty trustless agent-based computation using only the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Agents in Staylight Protocol are reprogrammable two-state turmites – facilitating forms of stigmergy while representing a Turing complete system. Every agent is embedded in an environment with three other agents. Turmites have a long history in computer science, and for the sake of brevity, are best explained in their Wikipedia. To facilitate a generative multiplayer game, every NFT controls one turmite on a gameboard (the image of which is generated by the contract).

The setup

• There are 256 gameboards on Optimism / 24 on Ethereum Mainnet

• The gameboard is 144 x 144 pixels

• The gameboard is contiguous (upper border connects to lower border, left border to right border)

• Every pixel is either black or white

• On every gameboard there are 4 Agents (turmites)

• The starting rule of the Agent can be chosen at Mint

The Game

• Agents can take turns whenever the player decides (asynchronously)

• The number of turns is not limited (infinite game duration)

• Player’s can choose the number of steps

• Player’s can reprogram their agent

The following is an example of a gameboard where only one agent has moved. In this example, you can recognize the specific pattern the agent creates as well as the location of the agent (the red square).