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About Lotus Mundi

The studio was started by James J. Tolton in 2023. We are building Powder and Plate, a physics-based ocean survivors-like naval combat game with ship-shaped base-building and colony-management mechanics. We develop Silk by Lotus Mundi and our editor tools for the game.

Lotus Mundi software is beauty, elegance, and power.

On Friday, October 2, 2026, we presented an internal Silk proof of concept at Clojure/Conj in Charlotte, in a talk called Smuggling Clojure into Statically Compiled Video Games with Silk. The recording is on ClojureTV, and the slides are up, demo videos included.

The devlog on this site is where the work gets written up as it happens. The newsletter goes out when we have a useful development update.