Narrative design
Continuity & discovery
Map fragmented histories, design reveals, and protect distinctions among canon, adaptation, and archive.
Collaboration pathways
Help make the architecture playable.
Loptr Lab is a pre-seed, people-over-profit, accessibility-first venture working toward a self-sustaining model within a capitalist economy. Money sustains the work; meaningful change for people is its purpose. We accept funding only on terms that keep people and accessibility first. Our long-term vision includes universal basic income. We aim to bring change to life and leave a transparent record of what we tried, what worked, and what failed so others can carry it forward. This mission governs our projects, funding decisions, and partnerships; it is not a temporary marketing position.
Current open review and contribution opportunities are voluntary and unpaid. Before work begins, agree in writing on scope, time, what will be public, credit preferences, and an exit path. You can stop at any point. Participation does not promise employment, ownership, revenue share, academic credit, or future pay. Any paid commission or other formal arrangement requires a separate signed agreement before work begins. External assistance or benefits belong to the participant and are not compensation from Loptr Lab.
Read the full mission and participation terms
The ecosystem needs collaborators who can preserve its history, challenge its assumptions, and translate its design principles into experiences people can use. Participation begins with a scoped conversation and written terms.
Begin with the existing tools
Find the right way to contribute
Start with PIXIE’s established contributor guidance to understand the projects and prepare a bounded, consent-first contribution. Training offers practical skills and GitHub holds submitted issues and progress; maintainer acceptance is separate. There is no new sign-up form or parallel directory.
PIXIE features and account availability depend on the current release. Participation remains optional and subject to the terms above.
Archive & research
Provenance
Inventory source materials, verify dates, document decisions, and prepare evidence for practice research.
Interactive fiction
Ink & web prototypes
Build accessible branching narratives and the Urban Alien Adventures discovery interface.
Game systems
Mechanics & playtests
Convert narrative principles into measurable player experiences, rules, tests, and balance studies.
Accessibility
Inclusive architecture
Test whether discovery and strategic play work across vision, hearing, motion, and cognitive-access needs.
Production & rights
Sustainable delivery
Develop milestones, budgets, contributor agreements, rights review, partnerships, and benefits-aware production plans.
Start with context
- Read the ecosystem map.
- Choose one defined project or evidence problem.
- Share a relevant portfolio, repository, publication, or lived-experience perspective.
- Agree in writing on scope, access, credit, rights, compensation status, and review authority before work begins.
Participation status
A public repository, conversation, issue, or pull request is not by itself an offer of employment, academic credit, compensation, revenue share, ownership, or canon authority. Each requires explicit written agreement. Opportunities must be labeled paid under a signed agreement, funded research, academic with institutional approval, voluntary, or exploratory. Future funding or pay is not promised.
Propose a focused contribution
For an open contribution, start with Training, choose a project and prepare a checkpoint through PIXIE. Submit it using your own GitHub account and agree scope with the maintainer. For a private commission or institutional discussion, email the project, scope, availability and compensation requirements. Do not send confidential records in an initial message.
questions@loptrlab.com