Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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14 years ago, an indie game developer opened his own cult within Minecraft. Today, the story is all but forgotten... until now.

Credit to Jia Ji for sharing the Hawaii videos with me! ➵ youtube.com/@jiavideos

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[SOUNDTRACK]
Fredrik Ekstrom - Enter The Night 3
Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen - Ninja Training Camp
Daniel Fridell - Mysterious Times
Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen - A Heart Made of Pixels
Dream Cave - I'm The Villain
Arthur Benson - None of My Business
Craft Case - Burned Books
Brendon Moeller - Mars Adventure
Craft Case - General Instinct
Daniella Ljungsberg - Flute
Craft Case - Clear As Day
Daniella Ljungsberg - It Will Fall
Craft Case - Project Blue Book
Rand Aldo - Towards Unknown Transition

[CHAPTERS]
0:00 - Intro
0:23 - GDC 2011
0:53 - Enter Jason Rohrer
1:28 - What is Chain World?
2:43 - Chain World begins.
3:03 - Enter Jia Ji.
3:39 - The Chain World auction.
4:13 - Enter Positional Super Ko.
4:42 - What happened to Chain World?
4:59 - Jia Ji and the Chain World drama.
5:46 - The Hawaii videos.
6:02 - Meeting the Temple Guardian.
6:36 - Misdirection?
6:54 - A trial by fire.
7:29 - The unfinished mystery.
7:57 - Outro

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