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Have you ever wanted to meet your NFT “frens” in a Bored Ape Yacht Club inspired swamp?
Another World is a metaverse game where players can bend their Bored Apes (BAYC), Clone X, OnChainMonkey, and Azuki NFTs in a 3D environment that pays homage to both the Apes’ swampy homelands and Azuki’s red arches and Japanese anime-inspired aesthetics . However, the game is not officially tied to any of those projects.
“People are always imagining what it would be like to live in those Web3 worlds,” Jackie Lee, creator of Another World and ScienceVR founder, told me. Decrypt in an interview. Lee is half of Another World’s development team and is the only developer working full-time on the project.
Testing an in-game wearable @apecoin pic.twitter.com/FekJX9ilWd
— jackie.eth (@JackieLeeETH) March 28, 2023
Another world, that one Decrypt tested at an early stage, is built using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5 – a software toolkit used by many major game studios – and will be released on the Epic Games Store. Lee, an MIT graduate, shared Decrypt that he also received a grant from the Optimism Foundation to develop the NFT-centric experience.
Another World will not be selling NFTs or crypto in-game, but players will be able to connect their crypto wallets using a Tokenproof integration that appears in-game as a QR code board.
Currently supports login with @tokenproof to load @ensdomains as username pic.twitter.com/rzVMNKDLqe
— Another World (@anotherworlddao) March 22, 2023
There are also plans to offer different digital wearables for players’ avatars based on what they have in their wallets. Lee said players will automatically see certain wearables appear in their in-game inventory based on the coins they own in their connected wallet.
Those wearables will be free NFTs minted on the Ethereum scaling network Optimism. For example, players will receive a blue ApeCoin hoodie if they have more than 42 APE, the Bored Ape-themed cryptocurrency, in their wallet.
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Copyright infringement claims are still a concern, Lee said, despite some NFT projects like the Bored Apes offering extended commercial use rights to NFT owners. For example, he tries to get permission to use BAYC logos in Another World’s monkey-inspired swamp areas.
“I’m still talking to them to see if I can put the logo to good use,” Lee said of BAYC creators Yuga Labs. “Very likely it won’t be easy.”
Testing energy shields in the PVP zone #web3 #gamedev @UnrealEngine pic.twitter.com/kzdNCJXvBY
— Another World (@anotherworlddao) Apr 30, 2023
Lee also revealed plans to offer a Pepe-themed wearable frog mask for those who own a significant portion of the frog-inspired meme token, PEPE.
But Another World won’t just be a metaverse to explore and chat with a handful of token-gated regions – there will also be a player-versus-player (PVP) mode where NFT avatars can battle each other. Lee shared that there will be NFTs for players to acquire in the PVP zone.
The first season has a $100,000 prize pool, sponsored by a grant from the Optimism Foundation, and the winners are determined by whoever has earned the most valuable NFTs by the end of the season.
While Another World is still in development, it’s a promising tease of the long-promised idea of interoperability in the metaverse – a way for users to take their NFT and crypto assets to other spaces, and in this case further from them as well to take advantage.
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Another World will join the growing number of NFT project-encompassing metaverse offerings such as Worldwide Web and Ready Player Me, which allows players to enjoy games as their NFT avatars.