Interview: Netmarble N2 on its new metaverse blockchain sport Meta World: My City – GameDaily.biz | We Make Games Our Business GameDaily.biz

Launched final month, Meta World: My City from Netmarble N2 is a blockchain actual property digital board sport with further digital actual property constructing and buying and selling in addition to social metaverse actions.

Netmarble N2’s earlier work consists of the equally Monopoly-like sport Let’s Get Wealthy. Meta World: My City is a deeper sport, incorporating technique playing cards in addition to cube throws. It’s additionally based mostly on actual world areas, with the primary being Manhattan. Further cities like Paris, London, Seoul, and Tokyo are deliberate for the long run. GameDaily spoke to Min-Kwan Kwon, CEO of Netmarble N2 and head of growth Youngsuk Hong.

GameDaily: What are an important options in Meta World My City that you simply think about to be real improvements in blockchain gaming design?

Min-Kwan Kwon: We developed Meta World: My City in a means that anybody can take pleasure in each board video games and digital real-estate collections.

The primary innovation we wish to spotlight is Union Tokenomics, which permits gamers to stably benefit from the content material. Most blockchain video games are based mostly on a token distinctive to that sport, and this ends in steady inflation throughout the sport. In distinction, we constructed secure tokenmics by controlling the availability of tokens by way of Netmarble’s A3: Nonetheless Alive sport and main gamers to make use of those self same tokens in Meta World: My City, which is a globally aggressive sport.

For instance, the Inetrium (ITU) token, which was beforehand solely obtainable in A3: Nonetheless Alive, will likely be obtainable in Meta World: My City in change for ‘Meta Cash’ (an in-game token obtainable to those who have in-game digital actual property). This basically opens up one other means of getting Inetrium – one which guards towards its inflation by solely circulating an quantity of Meta Money – and permits gamers’ enjoyment of 1 sport to learn the opposite.

Second, Meta World: My City relies on a cadastral map of actual cities, which permits gamers to discover what it’s prefer to have digital lands and buildings in well-known areas world wide. Whereas numerous digital actual property video games are restricted to digital land transactions solely, Meta World: My City is exclusive in that it supplies different content material alongside the digital actual property performance, resembling taking part in board video games, creating and customizing avatars, and extra. We plan to extend the worth by including much more contents by way of the sport and metaverse.

GameDaily: How a lot of your viewers do you count on to work together with the sport utilizing MBX blockchain, versus unusual Web2 gameplay mechanics?

Youngsuk Hong: Greater than 30 % of the income comes from blockchain avid gamers, which exceeded our preliminary expectations. It seems that these gamers not solely acquire digital land and have interaction in transactions, but additionally actively play board video games.

Contemplating the truth that Meta World: My City has simply come out and the unique title attracted greater than greater than 200 million gamers globally, we’re assured {that a} couple hundred million gamers will take part and perceive the blockchain ecosystem by way of Meta World: My City in the long term.

GameDaily: How massive do you count on your participant base to be throughout the subsequent six months, or 12 months?

Min-Kwan Kwon: We are going to replace the contents step-by-step. As of now, we’re primarily concentrating on the areas the place the unique title Let’s Get Wealthy: Meta World has been profitable. Nevertheless, we’re planning so as to add numerous genres of informal video games to draw much more gamers. Roughly 2 million gamers have skilled our sport already, and we’re aiming for 10 million gamers throughout the 12 months. We will do our greatest to make this sport one which lots of of thousands and thousands of gamers can take pleasure in.

GameDaily: What classes did you study blockchain sport design whereas making the sport?

Min-Kwan Kwon: We tried to benchmark numerous blockchain providers on the outset of this mission, and it appeared like blockchain video games weren’t well-positioned out there for the time being. On this course of, we realized that the Meta World: My City must be a sport that’s based mostly on sustainable tokenomics, which all contributors can really profit from.

Thus, we tried to provide you with a secure system for the long term and ITU Union Tokenomics grew to become the answer. It won’t present overwhelming income however it’s positively secure. We are going to proceed including worth by means of steady in-game content material updates which is able to profit all contributors throughout the ecosystem.

GameDaily: Lastly, are you able to speak about a few of your plans for the way forward for the sport?

Youngsuk Hong: At this second, we’re primarily concentrating on South East Asia the place the unique title was hottest. At the moment the digital actual property assortment characteristic is obtainable just for Manhattan, NYC, however cities like Paris, London, and Bangkok will likely be added at a later time. As well as, we’re going to additional replace different in style informal style video games and Netmarble’s general metaverse area, through which avatars can work together.