Rakes of Babel
A dying-earth game in which a society is organized around texts recovered from a greater past. The world holds still and the culture varies. Its dungeons, Babelrooms, are generated by an agentic loop. Design stage; the room substrate moved to bridger in August 2026.
Rakes of Babel is a design-stage dying-earth game in the General Systems Ventures portfolio. Its primary content is books: a society organized around texts recovered from a greater past, where the world holds still and the culture is what varies. Its dungeons and open areas, called Babelrooms, are each built around one abstract conceit, and traversing a room is reading it. An agentic loop generates the rooms and a community review surface ranks them behind a canon gate. The room substrate was extracted to a separate repository, bridger, in August 2026. The code repository is private.