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Citizens can learn how to build their own games in our frequent AI Division VCs and Live streams with our fearless Leader in Vibing, Firestorm.

@FirestormFPS Those Learn AI Live sessions are paying off

My toddler has imaginary creatures called Mibbies that he draws all the time. In 1 day, I turned them into a real game where he can collect them, feed them, and make music with them. I described the characters and game idea to Grok 4.5 in Cursor and it handled everything else. I have zero game dev experience. Mibbies: Little Planets is now real with procedurally generated worlds, and the music changes live based on which creatures you collect.

@ktrap Nick pick ups by the new Citizens

🔥 @NeoTokyoCode Recent Top Sales ☑️ S1 Citizen #20: 1.19Ξ ($2,077) 🔑 Key Traits: 🔹Extra Item: Gold Cake (1/32) 🔹Class: Cyber Ninja (1/33) 🔹Weapon: Missile Launcher (1/43) 🔹Apparel: Hoodie 2 (1/45) 🔹Helm: Business Helm 1 (1/85) 📍Location: Mid Town 🔹Reward Rate: 5 🔸Rarity Rank: 244 ☑️ S1 Citizen #1267: 0.95Ξ ($1,658) 🔑 Key Traits: 🔹Extra Item: Knife (1/48) 🔹Apparel: Ninja Garb (1/60) 🔹Class: Tech Runner (1/76) 📍Location: Ravager 🔹Reward Rate: 8 🔸Rarity Rank: 1213 ☑️ Report pulled by Sakura agent at @GridPhantoms 🤝 Any Citizen can join the GP Discord and CollabLand assets for free daily Neo Tokyo reports and alerts 🗼Grand Rising

This week's Learn AI Live feats founder of @metatransformr, a super impressive mostly AI-coded hardcore open world RPG 🔥 Plus, we're testing out the new X live stream creator studio: x.com/i/broadcasts/1… See you in The Lower Worlds I: Valenfeld tomorrow live here on X

It's Monday, Citizens. You know what that means.

Anthropic Academy Lesson 8 is in about 30 minutes! This week we're discussing the value of MCP connections when building with AI. See you in VC, Citizens.

@LucaNetz @vibes_tcg collab granted

I want to collab with every web3 artist on a @vibes_tcg card and put those cards in the worlds biggest retailers. 🔜

We hear from Palmier founder @Marcos12345rico in just 1 hour, live on the NT Twitch! Let's learn about the future of agentic video editing: twitch.tv/neotokyo

Learn AI Live is back tomorrow with a special guest! YC-backed @Palmier_io is one of the first full-stack AI tools for video edits. Co-founder @Marcos12345rico is joining us to demo in The Citadel. Bring your questions.

First Citizen to vibe code ByteBall wins

Our Building with the Claude API discussion starts in 1 hour! See you in The Citadel's AI Division.

🔥 @NeoTokyoCode Lore Series: Unpacking the Genius of the Neo Tokyo Membership Brand 🗄️ Today’s Topic: One of the most underrated Neo Tokyo brand mechanics is the Elite Code hunt Neo Tokyo did something most NFT projects never even attempted It made the lore feel operational Not just backstory Not just cyberpunk copywriting Not just “worldbuilding” dropped into a Discord announcement Hidden signal Clues Huntable artifacts Citizens combing through old lore for years because the city implied there was still something buried inside it 👀 Legend has it there are 30 Elite Codes hidden across Neo Tokyo lore When an Elite Code is solved, it can unlock an Elite, ultra-rare Citizen ID NFT A prime example of a solved code: 🔗 x.com/neotokyocode/s… And the search has been going for more than 4 years That matters Because the best lore-native brands do not only tell you what the world is They make you participate in proving it exists Neo Tokyo understood that early A code is not just a code It’s a reason to reread old messages A reason to archive screenshots A reason to ask older Citizens what they remember A reason for new Citizens to realize the city has history beneath the surface That is the difference between an art collection with lore and a brand with mythology Most projects publish a story and hope people care Neo Tokyo hid keys inside the story and made Citizens care enough to search One of the core tenets of the Neo Tokyo ethos is: “The Games will never end” That is why the city still has signal Not because every answer was handed down cleanly Because some of the map still feels unfinished And in Neo Tokyo, unfinished does not mean forgotten It means the game is still alive 🗼Grand Rising

@ktrap BONT was here

🔥 @NeoTokyoCode Lore Series: Unpacking the Genius of the Neo Tokyo Membership Brand 🗄️ Today’s Topic: The Neo Tokyo Vault Card NFT is one of the cleanest examples of membership mechanics manifesting as lore Vaults aren’t just “Part 2 of the NFT Set” Citizens earned Vault Cards after registering a score from a game of Kong Climb in October 2021 Your performance in the event affected the stats of the Vault Card you received The plot twist was a clue, “Don’t be average” So those who scored lowest and highest actually received better Vaults 🤦🏻‍♂️ I didn’t catch the meaning of the clue so I was average lol Gameplay became allocation, rewarding the tormented Season One souls who deciphered the game-master’s clues Allocation became identity Identity became economics And economics became lore Vaults carried claimable $BYTES They have Credit Yield tiers They have Credit Supply Amounts Some have “additional items” for added collectibility Some were opened Some stayed unopened All had hidden land minting implications And unlike the other core Citizen components, Vaults were optional for full Citizen upload at first Which made them even more interesting You could be a Citizen without one But having one meant your Citizen carried another layer of history, $BYTES yield, and hidden state This is the part people still underrate about Neo Tokyo The brand has never just been cyberpunk art plus Discord access The brand is a city where events, assets, scarcity, token mechanics, and memory all feed into each other A climb became a vault A vault became $BYTES $BYTES became the city’s economic language And the Citizens remembered “The Citadel Has Witnessed” 🗼Grand Rising

@RemixGG_ Gib Switch

Our biggest update EVER for Gamers is here. Season 1 has $30,000 in prizes! How it works - Earning achievements in games will level you up, and levels give you loot boxes. Loot Boxes have things like XP boosts, Bits… and Tickets. Spend your tickets to enter sweepstakes all season long to have a chance at winning things like $5k in cash, or a PS5. Achievements now reset seasonally, which means you can play your favorite games all over again and earn rewards for doing it. This is live NOW!

Market Monday #175, today at 3PM EST!

Totally agree I’m convinced Neo Tokyo will be studied in the future as cutting-edge brand design that fused emerging technology with myth, scarcity, identity, game mechanics, and community ritual An outlier in a sea of copycats Not just “NFT art” More like a cyberpunk city people had to decode, earn, assemble, and inhabit

Citizens, Lesson 4 starts today at 12:30PM EST! Still time to complete your homework. We're looking forward to the discussion in VC.

Happy birthday to our co-founder, the Dark Lord @ZssBecker 🥳