{"id":103336,"date":"2022-10-21T02:43:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T02:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/will-wright-is-making-a-metaverse-nft-game-on-the-blockchain\/"},"modified":"2022-10-21T02:43:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T02:43:03","slug":"will-wright-is-making-a-metaverse-nft-game-on-the-blockchain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/will-wright-is-making-a-metaverse-nft-game-on-the-blockchain\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Wright Is Making A ‘Metaverse’ NFT Game On The Blockchain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Legendary game designer Will Wright, who led development on not just SimCity <\/em>but the original sims <\/em>as well, hasn’t really made a big video game since 2008’s spore<\/em>. He’s back in 2022, though, working on something called VOXVerse<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It’s a social game where you mine stuff, build stuff and talk to people. And everyone is a squat little voxel-based character. There’ll also be real estate that you buy and own, and I think you can see where this is going. <\/p>\n

The project ticks every box for something that should have been announced in May 2021 then quietly shelved 12 months later when the ass fell out of the market<\/span>. It’s on the blockchain, it’s throwing licenses at it, it’s using the word \u201cmetaverse\u201d and its overall design sounds like something pitched solely to impress the kind of dudes sitting at a Web3 startup’s boardroom table.<\/p>\n

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Oh, and it’s also helping to sell NFTs. The game has been designed at Gallium Games, a studio focused on blockchain gaming (founded by both Wright and Carmen Sandiego<\/em> co-creator Lauren Elliott), but the \u201cVox\u201d characters at the heart of the project aren’t new characters, they’re an existing line of NFTs, which include licensed tie-ins from stuff like trolls<\/em> and the Walking Dead<\/em><\/span>. The Vox characters are sold by crypto firm Gala Games, who have spent $25 million funding VOXVerse<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Of an interview with axios<\/em><\/span> Wright slightly distances himself from the NFT side of things, saying \u201cI don’t really want to be in the business of selling NFTs\u201d, and that his main interest in the blockchain is because \u201cI want to have secure transactions for content creators\u201d . axios’<\/em> Stephen Totilo adds <\/span>though that during this portion of the interview co-founder \u201cElliot amiably interjected that some aspects of the VoxVerse project technically are NFTs\u201d.<\/p>\n

You can see the game in action, and hear Wright talk about how it all works, below. <\/p>\n