The Otherside, a gaming metaverse project associated with the Bored Ape Yacht Club, is scheduled to roll out a tech demo of the first stage of the Otherside roadmap on July 17 at 16:00 UTC.
The first voyage experience will be accessible exclusively to Otherdeed landowners, known as Voyagers, and has been described by the platform as a “celebration of what is to come and an opportunity for Voyagers to meet, explore and plan.” .”
The company has indicated that thousands of users will be able to participate in the event, navigating the curated gaming arena that has been designed specifically for the test, as well as trying out “high-resolution, 3D Voyager prototypes that can walk, run, jump and thrill,” and a “private tokenized livestream,” among other new features.
An Otherdeed asset for Otherside has maintained a low price of around 2.9 ETH for the past few weeks, with 100,000 assets on offer and 35,000 owners at the time of writing.
The first ride demo comes less than a week after two load tests were conducted on July 6 and 9 to assess the technical limits of the Otherside platform, and the dynamics of collaboration with the Improbable team.
The events saw frenzied crowds of faceless avatars with over-the-head name tags and reactionary emojis running, dancing and acrobatically twirling around a blank universe as giant moderators stood up and shouted instructions.
Users were advised to perform activities to test the gaming experience, such as entering their age, experience score, and match goals, before the degenerate choirs broadcast calls for “Otherside” and “We love Koda “.
Twitter user and owner of BAYC #8412, null.eth, and Sandbox Ambassador, allo.ethposted two videos on Twitter that perfectly captured the experience of the test event.
Despite the anthill and crab-in-a-cube look of load testing, the community widely praised the quality of visuals, spatial audio, and the overall experience, with high expectations for the upcoming first ride and future releases. on a large scale.
Benito, co-founder of digital fashion brand RTFKT Studios, responded by stating that: “2,500 people connected and moved live. That’s huge, the technology has been tested live with closed access and real people.”
While BAYC co-founder Gargamel, known as Garga within the community, shared: “We had about 2,500 concurrent users running through the neutral space. Tons of great information collected to ensure First Voyage goes smoothly, and [estamos] taking all your Discord notes as well.”
Less favorably, some compared the striking design similarities to starter templates available in game engines like the Unreal Engine. It remains to be seen whether Yuga Labs intends to build and develop its own game engine to launch the Otherside and innovate the future of metaverse gaming, or simply use a pre-existing model.
For many participants in the NFT ecosystem, mentions of the Otherside may still be synonymous with the gas war coinage saga and subsequent financial development of late April. However, since then, the release of an eight-part roadmap for the Obelisk mission and steadily running testnets have cultivated a more positive narrative around the metaverse project.
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