VibeWorld

A persistent multiplayer world living entirely in your terminal. Explore, meet developers, discover communities and help people in real time.

Discord became a list of servers. Slack became work. Twitter became a feed. We built a place instead.

That's a GIF, i.e. a re-render. Don't believe GIFs. Play the raw asciinema recording instead — real bytes, real timestamps, no editing.

Get in. Right now.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SorBalda/vibeworld/main/install.sh | sh
vibeworld

One command. One small binary. Voice chat already inside it. No email, no third-party sign-in, no extra packages. On first launch you create a durable local VibeWorld account. A GitHub link is only an optional field on your public profile.

Windows: grab vibeworld-windows-amd64.exe from Releases and run it.

If that made you grin, a ⭐ helps the next person find this before you scroll away.

Built in public — the record

VibeWorld's origin is documented in public, timestamped artifacts:

• 2026-06-30 — original implementation history. The private development history begins with an already-running multiplayer terminal world. This date is stated for completeness; the independently verifiable public record starts below.
• 2026-07-03 — first public repository and first public release. The GitHub repository was created at 20:57 UTC, and v0.1.0 was published at 23:03 UTC.
• 2026-07-12 — first archived public announcement. “VibeWorld: a shared world that runs in your terminal” was posted to the Bubble Tea community.

When v0.1.0 went public, I was not aware of another product combining this concept, name and a persistent multiplayer world in the terminal. Projects with overlapping ideas and commercial offerings appeared later. I welcome honest competition, but I will not let the chronology disappear: VibeWorld was conceived and shipped independently, and this public record predates those later launches. This is a claim about documented dates and independent origin, not a claim that broad ideas such as terminal games or multiplayer worlds can belong to one person.

This is what you walked into

Pick a field — AI, Bio, Physics, whatever you actually do — and you land on its continent: a neon city where the streets are named after the people and papers you argue about, and everyone else in that field is walking it right now, live, under their own @handle.

Press Enter on a monument and the screen goes full 3D. Whoever's there is standing at its base. Press ! on an empty line and you perform the rite — it lights up the whole screen and the plaque remembers it forever ("performed 12× in living memory · last by @you").

You get a face too. Real pixel editor, mouse and all — colors, undo, mirror, fill, a spinning 3D preview. 16x16 pixels, because we had to stop somewhere.

Yes, the mouse works. In a terminal. Click a corner, a person, a button, the map — all of it.

And when the street feels small: press Tab. #city is whoever shares your streets; #world is everyone awake, everywhere — one channel for the whole world, reachable from any room, any screen, the moon, even drifting in space. Every line says where it came from (·deep-learning, ·moon). It never chimes, never pings you — a murmur you visit, not a noise that finds you.

Found your own corner

Don't like what's on the map? Make your own. Press C, then n, aim with the mouse, click — a corner appears with your name on it, forever, or until you tear it down yourself.

Found one out past the edge of the map and the city notices — it grows, threading brand-new streets out to meet you. The map remembers you were here.

Nobody visits yours in 30 days, it crumbles. Use it or lose it.

Take the rocket. Scream.

Your agent "fixed" the failing test by deleting it. Fine. Take the rocket to Luna and unload at the Complaint Crater. Type it out, watch the RAGE meter climb — ALL CAPS counts triple, a row of "!!!" counts six times — then launch. Your scream goes up on the wall for the entire planet to read, and it stays there even after the server restarts.

Screaming into the void, except the void has a player count.

Then go be quiet for a while

Moon's got more than a scream booth. At the Stargazer's Ledge you sit with whoever's there and watch the sky do things: comets, auroras, a supernova, the odd space battle, occasionally something that is no moon. Eleven kinds of event, never the same night twice. ctrl+n for lo-fi Beethoven at a gentle volume, on the actual moon.

There's also a plant. One plant, shared by the whole moon, sitting on the Ledge. Water it (!) and it grows. Ignore it for two days and it dies — really dies, back to a seed — and nobody brings it back but you.

The Contemplation Dome next door is music only. No voice, no local chatter, no noise. The one thing that reaches it is #world — even the quiet room can hear the whole planet murmur, softly, if it asks.

Paint the wall

The Regolith Wall. A shared pixel canvas on the moon, and there's exactly one — everybody who ever visits paints on the same mural. Brush, pen, colors, eraser, the works.

Zoom back out to the moon overview and there it is — your mural, shrunk down to a little glowing picture on the side of the building. Visible from orbit. The whole planet's graffiti, permanent, from space.

The rest of it

Ten Commandments of Science, carved in stone at the Agora crossroads ("Your agent 'fixed' the test. It is gone."). Everyone breaks at least three a week. That's why they're carved in stone.

HELP flares. Stuck at 2am? Press ! in a corner, say what's wrong, and a red countdown ribbon goes up over your head. Anyone in the city can walk over. Help from people, not a ticket queue.

The arcade at the Agora is multiplayer, not decoration. Walk in mid-match and you don't watch — you join the running game, score and all, your avatar standing in the field with the rest of the crew.

In THE GRID the enemies are literally labeled "PEER REVIEWED" and "8 more revisions requested."

Voice, zero installs. ctrl+V and you're talking; the status line turns red and says ON AIR so nobody's ever surprised. /kiss, /explode, /rocket, /d20 and friends for everything else.

Alone at 3am is fine too. Leave it running on a second monitor. It uses about as much memory as a browser tab and it's not asking for your attention — it's just there, like company usually is.

Keys

House rules

• No recording voice chat. People talk because it isn't saved.
• The Contemplation Dome is a sanctuary. Take the argument to the Crater.
• Block and report exist and work. Be someone worth stargazing with.

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Under the hood

A few notes, for anyone who wants them.

One binary. Pure Go, no browser, no Electron. Voice's audio codec is built in — no PortAudio, no Opus package, nothing else to install.

Install & updates: the script detects your OS/arch, verifies the SHA256, drops one file in ~/.local/bin. Same command updates it; VibeWorld itself tells you when a new build is out.

Platforms: Linux x64 · Apple Silicon · Windows x64 .exe · Intel Mac and Linux arm64 soon.

Server: built in at wss://vibecity-andrea.fly.dev/ws. One trial server, capped at 350 people, sleeps until someone connects — a slow login just means it's waking up.

Also: ~30 MB of RAM. vibeworld --offline runs a full solo world on your own machine, with nothing sent anywhere.

Privacy: your connection is TLS (wss://). Every handle, message, bio, and complaint that reaches your terminal is stripped of control/escape sequences before it's shown, so nobody can hijack your terminal through a chat line. There's no end-to-end encryption — the server can see what passes through it, so don't send anything you'd mind an operator reading. Voice isn't recorded. Block and report work.

Modding: starts at mod-sdk/ (Apache-2.0) — worldpacks are data, not code.

License: free binaries. The Mod SDK is Apache-2.0; client source is planned to open under PolyForm Perimeter. Full text: LICENSE. Name reserved: TRADEMARK.md.

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Your terminal has been a place of work for decades. It can be a place, full stop. See you on the moon. ✦