Reality Junkies
Major Challenges For A Metaverse In 2030
A challenging journey building a virtual environment by the end of this decade Aug 7, 2022, 06:11
The Oxford definition of the Metaverse is “a virtual-reality space in which users can interact with a computer-generated environment and other users”. It's set to be a unified virtual universe that will connect communities, products, commerce, workspaces, entertainment, and allow creators to program this virtual environment.
A few attempts to create such a platform have been tried in the past. A well known example is Second Life, an open-source project started 19 years ago back in 2003, and is still active to this day, with the last version released just a month ago.
Over the years we did see a few other projects, mostly games, that implement some of the Metaverse concepts. World of Warcraft allowed thousands of players to inhabit a virtual fantasy world, it allowed groups of 10-25 players to band together going to adventures called raids. It also implemented a Battlegrounds feature that allowed up to 80 players to fight each other in the same environment.
The Last Starship - Progress Update #2 and Preview
The next game from Mark Morris and Chris Delay, creators of Prison Architect Jul 30, 2022, 10:46
For some Mark and Chris need no introduction. Their game company, and Youtube channel is well known around the Prison Architect fans. Their indie game studio is also behind games like Darwinia, DEFCON and Uplink.
Recently they published a second update on their upcoming simulation game
The Last Starship.
Currently the game is (almost) in Early Access, but it's still not playable to everyone,
including me unfortunately!
But I have managed to literaly scrap some info and shots from the update videos.
Don’t worry, you don’t have to wait until the planned release date in late 2022
.
Just got over the Steam page, and press the 'Request Access' button!
It clearly state on the stoare page:
We anticipate being in early access for several years...
Fear not! This two guys, along with John Knottenbelt 'Johnny Programmer' and Thomas Arundel they
would surly deliver the promise.
Not every game the studio made is an instance success.
Turns out I didn't like Scanner Sombre
as much as the rest of Steam community.
But this time it sure feels like a superstar to me. I mean, considering with their latest experience, and tiles like Space Haven around with many positive reviews.
The Last Starship is a game around building space ships, with battle and resource gathering mechanics. Currently the crew is just used as peons to move resources around, but they place to introduce role desegnations that will make them more like RimWorld.