The Alleycat Open Source Ecosystem

We design and publish the hardware, the firmware and services that talk to those devices, and the game logic that runs on top. Everything is meant to be forked, reskinned, and deployed somewhere new.

Our reference deployment is Quickdraw: a cyberpunk bounty hunting game at Neotropolis. Quickdraw is the icebreaker on the player devices, PvE games are added with field devices, and a LARP layer when you want full fiction. You can adopt the whole stack, swap the skin, or pull out one piece and build your own experience on the same protocols.

People show up here with different goals. Some want to understand how the platform fits together before they commit to a build. Some want schematics and firmware they can ship. Open source is how we serve both without gatekeeping the interesting work.

Start with the Alleycat Knowledge Base on Notion: how mechanics connect, what shipped each year, and what is on the roadmap. Read there, or feed the link to your LLM of choice if you want a guided pass through the material. Notion is our source of truth for Quickdraw game mechanics and the hardware and software we are working on.

When you are ready to fork, fix, or extend the stack, GitHub holds the repos, schematics, and build docs. For structured deep dives on hardware and software, the repo DeepWikis are the best next stop. GitHub is our source of truth for open source documentation and issue tracking.