Clockwork Labs To Launch BitCraft Online In Early Access
June 20th on Steam
Community Sandbox MMORPG To Be Open-source; Welcoming a New Era of Community-Driven Game Development
SAN FRANCISCO - May 5, 2025 - Clockwork Labs, the pioneering studio behind the ambitious community-driven MMORPG BitCraft Online, will launch in Early Access on June 20, 2025. The team also revealed that they will be open-sourcing their game to be more accessible and empower players, hobbyists and developers to collaborate and contribute to their expansive in-game ecosystem. This groundbreaking initiative reaffirms BitCraft Online's commitment to fostering community-driven creativity and invites developers worldwide to engage directly with the technology to help shape their game.
BitCraft Online is a massive, living sandbox world where every player action contributes to a dynamic civilization. From constructing cities to exploring ancient ruins, players forge their own legacies in a single, persistent world. The game's unique backend, powered by SpacetimeDB, enables a fully editable and collaborative environment unlike anything else on the market
Become a farmer, an adventurer, a city builder, a trader, a merchant or simply forge your own path in BitCraft Online. By open-sourcing their code behind BitCraft Online, Clockwork Labs is taking a rare and refreshing step towards true transparency and community empowerment in game development.
"The ethos behind BitCraft Online has always been about one core principle: collaboration. This is a massive in game-ecosystem, where we encourage players to work together to build towns, cities or even empires. So to truly empower our community, it was important to ensure that the game would be open-source, allowing players to express themselves in their own unique way," said Tyler Cloutier, co-founder of Clockwork Labs. "We want to give our community not only the toolset to play within our world, but to participate in building it. Open-sourcing is more than just a technical decision—it's a philosophical one"
By making the source code available to the public under a permissive license, Clockwork Labs is fostering transparency and creative development within the gaming ecosystem. Developers around the globe will have the opportunity to interact with BitCraft Online's architecture, propose changes, build custom tools, and contribute directly to the game's evolution.
This initiative represents a new chapter in MMORPG development and one where the community isn't just heard, but is part of the construction crew. For more details about open-sourcing, visit https://bitcraftonline.com/blog/open-sourcing-bitcraft-online.
About Clockwork Labs
Clockwork labs is a privately-owned video games developer with headquarters in San Francisco, California. The company was founded in 2019 with the goal of applying its founders' unique engineering backgrounds in distributed systems to video games. The concept for its first project BitCraft Online attracted investors and industry veterans to join. The company is currently growing.
