In Brief:
- The AI companion Tomoland refers to as an intern has been teaching itself from what players do inside the studio’s mobile app, the project said.
- Backed by a $2 million round in May led by Sky9 Capital, the Singapore-based UGC platform saw its Blueprint Founder Pass clear in two hours.
- So far in August the project tallies over 80 ecosystem partners, over 100 B.U.I.L.D Protocol creators and over 3,000 Forker players.
In its most explicit account yet of how the platform puts the agents its users create to work, Tomoland said its AI companion has been training itself on everything players do inside the app.
“My AI buddy has been training itself on everything I do inside Tomoland,” the project said in a post on X. “Apparently it learned enough to know me better than I know myself. I am not okay”
August recap so far:
→ 80+ ecosystem partners
→ 100+ B.U.I.L.D Protocol creators
→ 3,000+ Forker players
The numbers speak. Upcoming weeks builds on them@TomolandView on X ↗
Filed under the heading “Intern update,” the post left out a ship date for the feature, said nothing about what the agent holds onto, and never addressed whether the training can be turned off by players.
What the companion does
Building AI partners in Tomoland already requires no code, and sits alongside the avatars, maps and quests players can make. That companion feature lives beside a world-building toolkit handed down from BUD — the sandbox platform underpinning Tomoland, which has surpassed 30 million downloads between Google Play and the App Store.
Forkers, as Tomoland labels its players, construct maps, play card-based PvP matches, place wagers in battles and accumulate xTomo points that power the project’s reward system.
On storefronts the game appears as “Tomoland: The New BUD World,” published by TOKIMO PTE. LTD.
The August numbers
The project published its own scorecard for the month: over 80 ecosystem partners, over 100 creators enrolled in what it dubs the B.U.I.L.D Protocol, and over 3,000 Forker players. “The numbers speak,” the project said. “Upcoming weeks builds on them”
That B.U.I.L.D Protocol is a creator onboarding program pushed largely via the project’s social channels instead of formal published documentation.
Money and backing
On May 19, Tomoland unveiled a $2 million raise out of Singapore. Sky9 Capital headed the round, joined by WAGMI Ventures and Aureus Dealers plus angel backers drawn from Meta, Depinx Capital, NetEase and Virtuals.
Tencent and NetEase alumni make up the core team. On the advisory side are Dominic Jang, formerly chief business officer at MapleStory Universe (official site), and Animoca Brands’ Hazel Zhang.
According to the company, the capital is earmarked for connecting its mobile gaming base to an ownership layer branded TOMO — shorthand for Trustless Open Market Ownership. The intent behind that layer is for creators to mint, own and trade maps and game systems instead of licensing them back from the platform.
Passes and partnerships
May 7 brought the Blueprint Founder Pass, issued as a free claim on Ethereum. The drop consisted of 2,222 ERC-721s with a one-per-wallet cap, and the whole collection was gone within two hours.
What holders receive: advanced AI features, ecosystem multipliers, airdrop boosts, discounts, early access to ecosystem releases and allocation drops from partners.
April saw the project link up with Anome Protocol, connecting to Anome’s multi-chain network so Tomoland players could reach DeFi applications and tap extra liquidity against the NFTs they hold.
Details on a public token have yet to be announced.
The AI push hasn’t won over every Forker. The project’s AI-generated mascot has drawn fire in store reviews, including one urging the developer to “not use ai for mascot” — though other players want the reverse: additional AI gadgets, more AI NPCs and characters they can customize on their own.
Back in May, Chief Marketing Officer Darren framed the aim as bridging Web2 and Web3 “in a way that feels accessible and rewarding for everyone involved.”