Clear answers.
No hidden catch.

Panludia is free and built to stay free. There are no subscriptions, paid features or financial incentives behind the project. We currently cover the infrastructure and development costs ourselves.

Panludia is sponsored by Solvegia, which provides the infrastructure and resources required to operate the platform and maintain its integrations.

Its founder is genuinely interested in how games can be transformed into new Archipelago experiences. Panludia also operates on an existing, robust infrastructure, which keeps the additional cost of running the project extremely low.

Panludia is a community workshop for creating and maintaining Archipelago game integrations. Players decide what the locations, items, goals and progression rules should be. The Panludia team turns those decisions into tested, documented and maintained integrations.

Absolutely not. The launcher is an optional convenience layer for people who want guided installation, configuration, compatibility checks and updates.

Yes. Official integrations are designed to work independently before they are added to the launcher. Their source code, releases and manual installation instructions remain available directly through Forgejo.

The launcher is still in private testing. Invitations keep managed rooms and pre-release builds limited to known testers while the service matures.

Public project pages, source code, manual releases and installation guides remain available without a Panludia account.

Yes. Official integrations, their version history, releases and manual installation instructions are published on Panludia's Forgejo instance .

In design

The community is defining the mechanics while Panludia investigates technical feasibility.

In development

The selected mechanics are actively being implemented.

Playable

At least one build is ready for real Archipelago sessions.

Preview release

An early build intended for testing and rapid iteration.

Stable release

A build considered suitable for normal play based on available testing and community feedback.

Games are currently selected by the Panludia team through the founders' interests, technical feasibility and the kind of progression each game can offer to a multiworld.

No. Knowledge of the game is often more valuable. You can propose locations or items, discuss progression, vote on decisions, test previews, report bugs and provide balancing feedback. Panludia handles implementation and technical maintenance.

When the game allows it, yes. Exact capabilities depend on the game and its technical architecture, so every project page specifies its support for solo or multiplayer sessions and synchronous or asynchronous multiworlds.

Both names are tongue-in-cheek references to the project's earliest controversies.

The forbidden method™ refers to Panludia's extensive use of AI-assisted development, an approach some people considered unacceptable before examining the actual development and testing process.

The Unnecessary Launcher™ acknowledges that the launcher is technically unnecessary: every official integration can be installed manually. It simply makes installation, removal, configuration and compatibility management suspiciously convenient.