propatheia
the studioPropatheia
An independent, remote-first studio. We design, build and operate social virtual worlds: places people come back to, play in, and share with friends.
We also take commissions: custom worlds, Udon scripting, optimization passes, avatar modifications and custom avatars. The services · request work.
The studio does the whole job in-house: game and world design, 3D environment art, networked gameplay programming, performance work for standalone headsets and phones, the web services that keep a live world running, and the community and live operations around it. One live product so far, updated every few days from player feedback, with the next worlds in design.
how we workMethod
Ship small, ship often. Poker Bunker went live in August 2026 as an early version and has been updated every few days since, each change posted on the board inside the world and mirrored on this site. Players see what changed and why.
Measure before deciding. Every feature ships with a cost answer for a 40-player instance on a standalone headset, a plan for what happens after 24 hours of uptime, and a rollout note for the window when old and new builds share one instance.
Fair by construction. Play money, but treated seriously: wallets are signed, gains are judged by the instance host's client rather than the player's, and anything the world downloads is trusted for text and lists, never for money.
Remote, documented, reproducible. The world, this site and the services behind it are versioned, tested and deployed from the repository. Anyone joining the team can read how a system works and why it is shaped that way.
track recordTimeline
Milestones from the Poker Bunker board. The full changelog has every entry.
- July 2026
Poker Bunker enters VRChat Community Labs: a networked Texas Hold'em table with a persistent play-money wallet.
- August 2026
Public release. Blackjack and spades tables, a second floor, VIP tiers through VRChat's Creator Economy, and the Void terminal that pays out more when the instance is fuller.
- September 2026
Tournaments with blind levels and seat holds, instance moderation at the tunnel entrance, an announcer mic, hand-visibility sharing, personal stats boards, and two optimization passes for Quest.
- October 2026
Card, seat and orb skins with in-world kiosks, AudioLink lighting, billiards tables, drinks with effects, iOS support, and the first house players (poker bots) that learn how regulars play.
- November 2026
Bots for pool and spades, physical chips at the blackjack table, larger-instance optimization, and the web services on this site: signed gifts, scheduling, instance dashboards.
stackWhat it is built with
- Unity 2022 · VRChat SDK3 · UdonSharp
- master-authoritative networking
- VRChat Persistence & Creator Economy
- Quest & iOS performance budgets
- AudioLink · ProTV · LightVolumes
- Cloudflare Workers · D1 · R2
- vitest in the Workers runtime
- GitHub Actions CI
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Boilerplate. Propatheia is an independent, remote-first studio that designs, builds and operates social virtual worlds. Its first world, Poker Bunker, is a networked social casino on VRChat for PC, Quest and iOS, with Texas Hold'em, blackjack, spades and billiards, a persistent play-money economy, and updates shipped every few days from community feedback.
Contact: contact@propatheia.com · discord.propatheia.com