We’re recruiting early contributors for Veiled Dominion Engine

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We’re opening early contributor seats for Veiled Dominion Engine — an open prototype for a 4-player chess variant built around restraint, pressure, and deterministic systems design.

What makes this project different?

Most strategy games reward escalation.
Veiled Dominion explores the opposite: starting overpowered and winning by control, suppression, and coexistence rather than conquest.

We’re currently looking for contributors in:

• Gameplay systems
  • deterministic movement logic
  • state-machine design
  • positional pressure mechanics
• Documentation
  • rules clarity
  • onboarding improvements
  • edge-case coverage
• CI / developer experience
  • validation workflows
  • contributor tooling
• Variant design
  • original variants
  • public-domain-informed variants with documented provenance

Good fit if you like:

• chess-like systems
• asymmetric game design
• clean rules documentation
• deterministic engine architecture
• structured open development

Repo now includes:

• contributor guidance
• issue and PR templates
• variant submission workflow
• provenance review guidance
• example variant documentation
• starter workflow checks

Where to start

If you’re curious, start here:

• read README.md
• review CONTRIBUTING.md
• check open issues
• look at Back in Derry for the first deterministic pressure-rule implementation thread

Repository:
Loptr-Lab/veiled-dominion-engine

If this sounds like your lane, introduce yourself in the comments or pick up an issue.