Co-Creating EVE Frontier

The world of EVE Frontier is designed to give participants the power to create new content and build on top of existing works. User-generated content (UGC) has consistently proven to be a powerful feature that ensures longevity and widens the cultural impact of virtual worlds, from the community mods of games like Minecraft and Skyrim, to the massive success of Fortnite Creative and Roblox’s creator marketplace.

Many of the most enduring virtual worlds have risen on the back of modding and UGC. The ingenuity of players created genres like MOBAs and battle royales. Passionate creators have created new game mechanics, characters, lore, and entirely new virtual worlds out of existing ones. Mods create a sense of ownership and collaboration, which encourages players to keep coming back and connect as a community.

As players figure out the puzzle of navigating their way out of an uninhabitable and harsh galaxy, UGC and mods allow them to expand their creativity. This creates a tabula rasa, allowing them to direct the story along the path they see fit, interacting with other creations as they progress. EVE Frontier embraces this culture. Users will be able to create new structures, economic loops, and game modes. For them to have this capability, the game engine should be accessible.

Open Sourcing the Carbon Development Platform

In 2024, we began open-sourcing the Carbon Development Platform (CDP) after 20 years of continuous development. Integrating composability and extensibility further drives our vision of community-driven virtual worlds. Developers can innovate on the game’s foundations, moving beyond the boundaries of a single team’s design. Open sourcing brings tangible advantages:

● Accountability is raised across the entire ecosystem

● Open review can detect vulnerabilities, improving security

● A broader developer base can fill knowledge gaps

Enabling UGC and Mods on the Blockchain

UGC in EVE Frontier is programmable through Sui’s open-source language, Move. Knowledge of using the programming language is not required, as CCP Games and Sui continue to collaborate to make tooling accessible to all. The goal is to allow players to intuitively create and bring their imagination to life through easy-to-use interfaces, where program scripts are generated in the background. They can modify how Smart Assemblies behave and interact with decentralized applications (dapps), enabling automation and customization via smart contracts.

As players’ technical fluency grows, Move allows them to unlock more advanced interactions and optimization. Such mechanisms promote incentive alignment by lowering barriers to experimentation. It is this safe experimentation that will fuel the evolution of the Frontier.

The EVE community has traditionally been interested in exploring ways to elevate its own gameplay experience. Building on blockchain provides a perfect platform for that, but requires a partner who has proven a willingness to commit the time and energy required to onboard new developers.

In the lead-up to launching EVE Frontier on the Sui Mainnet, the Sui and EVE Frontier teams have committed to a range of dedicated developers onboarding programs and hackathons to bootstrap the EVE Frontier modding community. Central to this will be programs aimed at supporting any Solidity developers who have already deployed Smart Assemblies for EVE Frontier to port their code over to Sui.