Sims, SimCity Legend Will Wright Is Making A 'Metaverse' NFT Game On The Blockchain - Kotaku

Legendary crippled decorator Will Wright, who led improvement connected not conscionable SimCity but the archetypal Sims as well, hasn’t truly made a large video crippled since 2008's Spore. He’s backmost successful 2022, though, moving connected thing called VOXVerse.

It’s a societal crippled wherever you excavation stuff, physique worldly and speech to people. And everyone is simply a squat small voxel-based character. There’ll besides beryllium existent property that you bargain and own, and I deliberation you tin spot wherever this is going.

The task ticks each container for thing that should person been announced successful May 2021 past softly shelved 12 months aboriginal erstwhile the ass fell retired of the market. It’s connected the blockchain, it’s throwing licenses astatine it, it’s utilizing the connection “metaverse” and its wide plan sounds similar thing pitched solely to impressment the benignant of dudes sitting astatine a Web3 startup’s boardroom table.

Oh, and it’s besides helping to merchantability NFTs. The crippled has been designed astatine Gallium Games, a workplace focused connected blockchain gaming (founded by some Wright and Carmen Sandiego co-creator Lauren Elliott), but the “Vox” characters astatine the bosom of the task aren’t caller characters, they’re an existing enactment of NFTs, which see licensed tie-ins from worldly similar Trolls and The Walking Dead. The Vox characters are sold by crypto steadfast Gala Games, who person spent $25 cardinal backing VOXVerse.

In an interrogation with Axios Wright somewhat distances himself from the NFT broadside of things, saying “I don’t truly privation to beryllium successful the concern of selling NFTs”, and that his main involvement successful the blockchain is due to the fact that “I privation to person unafraid transactions for contented creators”. Axios’ Stephen Totilo adds though that during this information of the interrogation co-founder “Elliot amiably interjected that immoderate aspects of the VoxVerse task technically are NFTs”.

You tin spot the crippled successful action, and perceive Wright speech astir however it each works, below.

Look, possibly Wright tin lend immoderate of his magic to the task and immoderate playable parts—like the narration system—will beryllium interesting. But I dunno, man, proceeding him repetition each these hollow blockchain gaming slug points, and looking astatine the crippled successful action, the full happening conscionable truly bums maine out.