>"Since Blitmap’s launch, Vine creator Hofmann had been thinking about other novel ways to promote the creation of blockchain-based art and communities to surround them. Loot is the next attempt."

One of Hofmann’s other side projects in recent years was to create a text-based adventure of the sort that served as the basis for some of the original video games. As part of the development process, he wrote a random item generator: a piece of software that would return names for various weapons, pieces of armor, and accessories