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Logged Universe #5 - MS-OS

Happy to announce the fifth story in the Logged Universe! MS-OS by Andy Tudhope. A simulated soul, finding themselves back in the real world, in Anchor City, remains confused about their place in all things. Blurring realities again, they undergo a new journey. The stories are free to read & listen to, with fans being able to collect digital memorabilia from the stories in the form of NFTs.

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Witness The Draft

At Untitled Frontier, we keep experimenting at the intersection of storytelling, art, and the creative process.

“Witness The Draft” is an art project that combines literature, social + dynamic on-chain NFTs, and a novel way to document the creative process.

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Behind the Scenes: Crafting the On-Chain SVG Capsules

With each Logged Universe story, we try to find an artifact from it that could become a generative art NFT collectible: both a way for fans to collect something meaningful, but also as the primary way to support the production of the story. Here, we delve into how a smart contract generates the SVG automatically for these capsules.

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Logged Universe #4 - Upstream Glitches

Happy to announce the fourth story in the Logged Universe! Upstream Glitches by Vesta Gheibi. Marsa, afraid of the eternal loop, joins other uploaded minds in the simulation's first school of unlearning. The stories are free to read & listen to, with fans being able to collect digital memorabilia from the stories in the form of NFTs.

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The Room of Infinite Paintings

“The Room of Infinite Paintings” is a mid-season art project for The Logged Universe. It’s generative on-chain SVG art that is free to mint & that has an infinite supply. Up to 1 million mints, paintings becomes increasingly likely to produce more minimal variations.

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Crafting the On-chain SVG Little Martians

When Vanessa Rosa first showed me the real-world ceramics that helped inspire the story of “Little Martians & The Human Memorial Monument”, I knew this would be a fun challenge to create on-chain SVG versions of them. This article goes delves into how the on-chain Little Martians are crafted using SVG from code directly embedded in the smart contracts.

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Logged Universe #3 - Little Martians & The Human Memorial Monument

Happy to announce the third story in the Logged Universe! Little Martians & The Human Memorial Monument by Vanessa Rosa with art & NFT collaborations with Vanessa Rosa & Gene Kogan. In the very far future, Diana comes to terms with her new reality after an adventure through humanity's memorial. The stories are free to read & listen to, with fans being able to collect digital memorabilia from the stories in the form of NFTs.

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Want to Write for The Logged Universe?

We’re looking for writers! “The Logged Universe” is a shared story universe told and interpreted by writers. Humanity unearthed a record of a future humanity dealing with life before, during, and after we invented simulations. It’s up to us to read & tell its stories.

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The Logged Universe #2 - Memories of Atlas

Happy to announce the second story in the Logged Universe! Memories of Atlas by Nathan Chen & cover image by Simon Wairiuko. An old mercenary's prized painting of his son gets stolen, sending him on a mission into the depths of his own mind & the simulation. The stories are free to read & listen to, with fans being able to collect digital memorabilia from the stories in the form of NFTs.

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First Untitled Frontier Sci-Fi Short Story Earns $12k

Our thesis is simple: tell compelling stories that finds the superfans that wish to connect with the work in the form of digital NFT memorabilia and through that support the storytellers. For the first foray, we are really happy with the result (earning $12k) and it gives us renewed energy to keep creating new stories & expanding the stories yet to be told!

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The Logged Universe #1 - The Line To Anchor City

Happy to announce the first story for Untitled Frontier, and the first in the Logged Universe! It follows an uploaded mind reckoning with his past in order to find his way back to reality. The stories are free to read & listen to, with fans being able to collect digital memorabilia from the stories in the form of NFTs.

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Introducing Untitled Frontier

Blockchain technology allows us to not only empower storytellers by giving them access to infrastructure that might exclude them, but, it also allows us to imagine new stories. Through this, we might not only found ourselves in an era where existing storytellers can more readily earn a living, but where more stories are told.

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