Waytale
Spatially organized 2D social space with video chat
The space around us impacts us. Different spaces (like your living room, the office, or a café) influences how we perceive others (like dear ones, work colleagues, or strangers) or which behaviours we engage in (like studying, relaxing, or chatting). What if online spaces would better support what we want to do and how we interact with others?
Waytale provides spatially organised online spaces that can be flexibly designed, customised, and extended. Navigate your avatar intuitively through 2D spaces and discover the interlinked spaces of your friends' friends. Meet people, feel their presence of others in different ways, and engage with the world. Create your personal space and express your creativity with tools matching your skill level. Link your space to others and extend it with functionality like video calling, productivity tools, or games. Self-host your personal instance only requiring minimal technical knowledge and without cost. Stay in control of your data and who you federate with using modern peer-to-peer technology. Share what you know, empower others, and form communities. Are you there?
This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).
