Sam uploaded all 500 characters to OpenSea himself, no pre-sales, no waiting list, no hype campaign. Just 500 hand-drawn Inhabitants, put out into the world. They sold out. He'd built the entire trait system with his dad (a spreadsheet and maths obsessive), mapping out every possible combination across 66 traits and 8 categories by hand. Every Inhabitant's unique combination was worked out between the two of them before a single character went live.