Former EVE Online developers are building a society simulation MMO where your character keeps playing even after you log off

Two former developers of EVE Online have been working with their studio Klang Games for over a decade to make an MMO where it isn't just the world that's persistent, your characters are too. Klang Games turned up at GDC this week to debut a new trailer with a song by Björk in the Future Games Show and to give me an overview of the current state of Seed.

Back when we first saw Seed in 2017 it was ambitiously name-checking inspirations like The Sims and Dwarf Fortress. That hasn't changed much...