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n this episode, Shora, co-founder of PixeLAW, shares his journey from AI research and deep learning to building fully onchain games, focusing on PixeLAW, a pixel-based autonomous world on StarkNet. Shora recounts his early interest in poker and blockchain, which led him to pivot from developing a fully onchain poker game to building autonomous worlds after reading influential articles and being inspired by projects like OpCraft and 0xParc’s blog.

Shora discusses the unique challenges of creating composability in the space, reflecting on how the ECS framework and StarkNet’s Dojo SDK have been crucial to building PixeLAW. He emphasizes the importance of experimental design and pushing the boundaries of what fully onchain games can achieve. As a final thought, Shora notes that the space needs more engaging, attractive games to truly bring in broader audiences and compose a vibrant ecosystem, adding that PixeLAW aims to create that world by offering players the freedom to build and govern autonomously.