Postgenerative Language Games

Alasdair Milne argues that dmstfctn's free-to-play onchain AI text game Fango 1000, released in 2025, keeps meaning-making human by turning interpretation into onchain governance rather than outsourcing lore to AI. Players join one of three factions (Monks, Scholars or Fools), write interpretations of fixed chronicle facts, and vote, with collective votes determining what becomes canon. The game was developed as part of the ARTeCHÓ fellowship, following 2024 prototype exhibitions at Koelhuis, Eindhoven and Etopia, Zaragoza. Its scenery is rendered in a "postgenerative" style that avoids generative AI models, using Carlo Crivelli paintings run through procedural manipulation.