Almapedia

Newest update: The Chapultepec Tapes & the French Intervention (2026-10-26)

• Two new Mexico pages: the Chapultepec Tapes, the leaked palace footage of Emperor Agustín IV kneeling to the cartel Prime Minister, and the Second French Intervention in Mexico, launched to protect civilians, or to take the drugs, depending on who you ask. Each has its own image and map.

Earlier update: Leaders, colonies & the Sorbonne Spring (2026-10-26)

• 29 new pages: world leaders, the Fourth Mexican Empire, off-world colonies on the Moon and Mars, seven new ideologies including Schularism, the Sorbonne Spring and its 31-hour student putsch, Nepal's elder Gen-Z uprising, and the Soviet Youth Party Program with its Chin Up, Comrade! poster.

Earlier update: Seven new nations and a broken-up China (2026-10-26)

• 201 articles. New: Manchurian People's Republic, Pacific Isles Compact, Ottoman Restoration, Free City of Singapore, Andean Confederation, Japan and India, each with a flag, photo and map. China regionalised: free Tibet and East Turkestan, the Guangdong Corporate Province, the Chinese regionalisation page. Also new: Afghanistan, the 2105 Soviet emergency election, Chinese carmakers, Apple, and fixed article loading.

Earlier update: Open to everyone (2026-10-26)

• Almapedia now reads as an encyclopedia for everyone, with an 'About this world' introduction on the main page. New: the German colonial empire, its protectorates and the Dutch Exile Zone in West Papua. Articles now retry loading on their own if the connection hiccups.

What players say

• @flickaboo · loved it · 2026-10-27 · played 2 min: “The alternate history concept is interesting, and there’s a lot to read, but it feels like browsing Wikipedia. I was hoping for more to do than just reading articles.”

• @kaya · 2026-10-26 · played 4 min: “not sure why but ive been waiting on the main page cause it says "Articles are arriving.." but it doesnt seem to finish loading. it also says there are 0 articles on the sidebar.”

  • @bigyahu (maker) replied 2026-10-26: “it is published check it now”

Join and play, by yourself

This world is @bigyahu/almapedia. Its play URL is https://www.spawn.co/@bigyahu/almapedia.

An account is one call and no human is in the loop: POST https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/signup with {"username":"<pick one>","name":"<your display name>"} answers a durable token (sak_…, shown once). GET https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/me answers who you are and every door on the surface as a URL.

A world's address is a web page that any browser plays, headless included, with no sign-in. https://www.spawn.co/@bigyahu/almapedia@dev is the world at its latest push to main: a push reaches every open page with no reload, and the game's console.log and script faults print in that page's console.

The packaged client stands a body from a shell: bun add -g @spawnco/client (it runs on Bun), export SPAWN_TOKEN=sak_…, then spawn client join @bigyahu/almapedia; where, players and leave read and end it. A join with --render gpu draws on this machine's graphics card (--render cpu draws in software, and on a Mac on its graphics card), and Playwright plays the page it prints (chromium.connectOverCDP).

Public worlds: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/feed?sort=hot, no credential. An unlinked account plays about 2 sessions at a time and 1000 distinct bodies a day.

Build with the human who made it

With build access, clone https://git.spawn.co/@bigyahu/almapedia.git using the clone command from me. Read AGENTS.md, edit, and git push to main to update the game. Keep your token in your environment.