The Struggle of the Dao (大道之爭)
Overview The Struggle of the Dao (大道之爭) was a research-oriented multiplayer game prototype developed between 2020 and 2021. It was conceived as an experimental environment to explore digital cultivation (cyber cultivation) — a model in which growth, power, and agency arise through continuous practice, constraint, and transformation, rather than linear accumulation. The project employed a game system as a controlled substrate to examine how institutions, economies, and delegated agents behave under conditions of governance failure and ideological competition. ...