title: About #
About #
TLE Community is a volunteer-run reboot of The Lacuna Expanse maintained by Natalie Rose. The aim of this project is a recreation of the interface and gameplay mechanics from when the game was "complete" in the mid-2010's. The game is playable on the Meanjin One server and the game's documentation, wiki, strategy guides, and media are preserved here on TLE Community
Everyone working on it is a volunteer contributor. If you want to help - running the server, fixing the client, writing docs, or playing-testing and reporting bugs - the code lives at https://tangled.org/tlecommunity.com, or email natalie@thecommunity.com.
If you're interested in other Natalie projects or just want to stay in touch, follow her on Bluesky!
Credits & attribution #
The Lacuna Expanse is the original commercial game, developed and published by JT Smith, Plainblack, Lacuna Expanse Corp., and their contributors. This edition of the game is operated by TLE Community, a group of unpaid volunteer open-source contributors. TLE Community is not a registered company and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by JT Smith, Plainblack, Lacuna Expanse Corp., or any of the original creators. TLE Community claims no ownership of, and asserts no trademark or other rights in, "The Lacuna Expanse", "Lacuna Expanse Corp", or any related names, logos, or marks; all such rights remain with their respective owners. References to the original creators throughout this site are for attribution only, and TLE Community does not intend to detract from any present-day Lacuna Expanse endeavour.
- The original game - The Lacuna Expanse by JT Smith, Plainblack, Lacuna Expanse Corp., and contributors.
- Artwork - game art is reused under the limited-use license carried in
/assets/lacuna-assets-license.txt; images have only been resized or reformatted, per that license. - Wiki - the wiki is a community-preserved copy of the original player wiki (circa 2013), kept for reference.
- Developer Documentation - the developer docs are imported from the original developer site; the live API reference is generated from @tlecommunity/api-spec.