Build a persistent multiplayer space-strategy game. Shape its economy, fleets, combat and map through the admin tools or an AI assistant connected by MCP. AWE supplies the foundation. You decide what makes your world worth playing.
Good games come from decisions: the tension in an economy, the cost of a battle, the reason to return tomorrow. An engine gives those decisions somewhere to live.
Use AI to help build your game. Bring your own taste, test your ideas, and listen to your players. The tools are shared. The responsibility—and the character of the world—belong to its maker.
MADE WITH AWE / SHAPED BY YOUThe engine ships with zero baked-in ruleset. Units, buildings, research, defenses, the combat model, the resource economy, and the map layout are all a game definition (JSON or Python) — loaded at startup and hot-swappable at runtime. Compose one in the admin GUI, or author your own.
Pick a base game, snap on rule fragments, edit ship / building / research stats, and activate — all from the admin panel, no code.
Resource model, combat, defenses, map depth, entire rosters — it's all one definition. Change the game without touching the engine.
Flip single ↔ multi-resource, simultaneous ↔ round combat, level ↔ count defenses, hierarchical ↔ flat maps. Same code, different worlds.
Package a ruleset as a mod, layer content and behaviour overlays on top, and ship your game for others to run.
Procedural spiral galaxies, fleets, real combat, trade, and configurable NPC factions in a living, shared universe.
Every server has a built-in MCP endpoint. Your AI assistant can read the schema, draft and check rulesets, and activate them when you say so.
FastAPI + SQLite, no frontend build step. docker compose up or python run.py and you're live on :8000.
These aren't forks. They're the same engine running two different definitions — every axis below is a config choice, not a code change.
Switch between them — or your own game — with one click in the admin panel.
# clone it git clone https://github.com/AstroWebEngine/astrowebengine cd astrowebengine # option A — Docker (set AWE_SECRET_KEY in .env) cp .env.example .env docker compose up -d # option B — Python pip install -r requirements.txt python run.py # then open http://localhost:8000
The first account you register is the admin. From there, open Build Game to pick a prebuilt ruleset, tweak the content, and launch a universe — or point the engine at a definition of your own.
To work with AI, open AI Assistant in the admin panel, create a token, and connect your assistant to the server’s MCP endpoint. Read, draft and validate a ruleset before activating it.