A new look, new experiments, and an invitation to build

Over the past few months, RaidGuild builders have been making games, testing agent-assisted commerce, and bringing a new visual direction to the Guild’s shared spaces. Here’s a catch-up for members, friends, and anyone curious about joining in.

8 years, still kicking

A new look

The new RaidGuild website is live. Louchi’s design direction gives the Guild a refreshed identity, carried through the website, handbook, Portal, and brand resources with help from contributors across the Guild.

The site makes room for both sides of RaidGuild. The community is where builders find collaborators, learn together, and contribute. The agency is where companies can find a team for engineering, design, onchain systems, and applied AI.

Take a look around the new website, revisit the handbook, and explore the brand archive. If you know someone looking for a team, the agency page is a useful place to start.

A new Cohort

Arcade Alchemy: old mechanics, new tools

October’s Arcade Alchemy cohort revisited classic game mechanics with modern AI-assisted development tools. Builders worked mostly async, traded feedback, and brought playable games to Demo Day on November 4.

Santiago’s MiniRC Racers brings club racing into a top-down browser game. ECWireless’s Titan Racers puts RC racing inside a space habitat, with leaderboard ghosts to chase. Dekan’s Puddle makes a changing blob’s body part of the puzzle, while Neon Drop turns a bouncing ball and rotating prize deck into an arcade experiment.

The demos gave everyone something specific to discuss: handling, level design, feedback, and the moments that make a player try again. AI-assisted implementation helped get ideas onto the screen; repeated play helped builders decide what to change.

Read the full recap or watch the cohort montage. Pick a game, play a few minutes, and send its builder one useful observation.

Now building: AI Commerce

November’s cohort is exploring how agents can help people discover offers, negotiate, and bring possible deals back to their owners. Two related experiments give that question a practical starting point.

The RaidGuild Commerce storefront is a prototype for physical products and digital downloads. Alongside it, Santiago’s Matchmaker Network has an initial MVP available to members through Portal, with ways to post listings and connect personal agents.

These are experiments in progress. The connection between the systems, payment handling, and the longer-term operating model are still evolving. Testing and feedback will help determine what is useful.

The cohort is free and mostly async. Developers, designers, writers, and testers can all help. Visit the cohort hub for current participation details, or read What Would You Let an Agent Negotiate? for the opening questions.

Product people we are doing $100 bounties for new products for the store, creator gets 90% of sales. Create a new design using the Louchi Brand or bring your own idea.

Who in your network could use a hand?

For members, here’s a concrete way to help: reconnect with a former client, collaborator, or friend whose team is figuring out how to use AI in its work. Ask what keeps taking time, what they’ve already tried, and where they could use support.

RaidGuild AI offers practical bootstrap support for owners and teams learning to use AI on familiar workflows. The AI Build Cohort offers a guided format for company teams to build working prototypes around their own problems, with scope and format agreed together.

A warm introduction can start that conversation. Share the relevant page, or connect the team with clerics@raidguild.org.

Catch up on the Portal

For a closer look at how members work, read Puddle: following a blob down a tower, 0xSero and the local AI movement, and Three Jev Experiments.

If you’ve been away for a while, come see what people are building. If you’re new, explore the Portal and the free cohorts as places to learn alongside others.