About MokuMoku.town

Built by a solo indie developer

MokuMoku.town is operated by me (Twitter: @kyo219_) as a sole proprietorship — designed, developed, and maintained by one person. It started from a simple need: working from home full-time, I wanted the quiet sense of "someone else is working in the same room" without the overhead of cameras or microphones. Discord feels heavy with voice; Zoom is for meetings; Gather is too feature-rich. I just wanted a pixel room with a shared sense of presence — so I built one. Features and improvements are added gradually based on real user feedback.

A loosely connected virtual office

Working alone from home can be hard — concentration wanes, mood shifts are difficult, and the sense of "working together" is missing. MokuMoku.town addresses this "loosely connected" need with a fully browser-based virtual office. Unlike Discord or Zoom, no camera or microphone is required — your pixel-art avatar conveys your working presence instead. Sit down at a chair, and the focused atmosphere of others in the same room naturally pulls you into your own flow.

Your work time, logged on its own

At the heart of MokuMoku.town is one simple idea: time spent sitting on a chair is time spent working. No timers to start or stop, no task names to enter. Just sit down and keep the tab open — your daily and lifetime work time accumulates on your profile card.

How it compares

There are plenty of communication tools for remote workers, but MokuMoku.town optimizes for one specific thing: being light enough to keep open all day.

• vs. Discord — No camera or microphone needed. No "mic on / mic off" social pressure, so you can stay for hours
• vs. Zoom — Not a meeting tool. Just "being in the same room together," with no start / end ceremony
• vs. Gather — Free, no installation, optional account. Focused entirely on pixel-avatar presence, not feature breadth
• vs. Slack / Teams — Not tied to a company or organization. A place where individuals can drop in casually
• vs. all of the above — Watch the same YouTube video in sync inside the shared pixel space. Share BGM or study videos like sitting together in a movie room

How to play

The basic operations are as follows:

• 1. Login from top page: Google / Twitter (X) account, or guest mode
• 2. Avatar creation: Combine hair, clothes, accessories, etc., into your unique character
• 3. Room selection: Pick a room from the lobby
• 4. Movement: WASD or arrow keys (PC) / virtual joystick (mobile)
• 5. Sit on chair: Stand in front of a chair and press E (work-time counter starts here)
• 6. Chat: Press Enter to start text chat
• 7. Add video: In Video Rooms, paste a YouTube URL to add to the queue

Rooms for every mood

Two kinds of rooms. Pick whichever fits your mood that day.

• Official rooms: always open — anyone can drop a YouTube video into the queue
• User-made rooms: spin up your own room around a theme (e.g. a lofi-only room, a 1970s jazz lovers' room)

Avatars & the draw

Avatars are composed of 5 layers (hair, body, clothes, accessories, background). Tickets are distributed as login bonuses and continuous play time rewards, allowing players to acquire avatar parts via the Avatar Draw. The Avatar Draw is entirely free — no monetary transactions are involved.

Read the Avatar Draw guide: how to play, probabilities, and ticket earning rules.

Keeping the space comfortable

The Service aims to be a safe space where all users can work in peace.

• Harassment and defamation toward other users is strictly prohibited
• Respect copyright — do not post illegal video content
• Sexually explicit, violent, or discriminatory chat is prohibited
• Violators may have their accounts suspended without warning

Read the full Terms of Service.

Contact

For questions, feedback, or bug reports, please contact us at:

Email: [email protected]

Credits

This Service is built on the work of the following open-source projects and asset creators. Our sincere thanks to everyone involved.

• SkyOffice (Kevin Shen) — MIT License. The OSS virtual office implementation this Service is based on
• Cainos — characters, map tiles, and more
• LimeZu — characters, map tiles, and more