Unioverse: The New World of Tony Harman
Unlike the metaverses that have become popular because they seek to become a kind of virtual world, here the intention is the development of video games; a space where when accessing you have a huge number of games in different modalities.
Unioverse aims to become a programming toolbox for developers. According to Tony himself, it is “like Roblox or Minecraft but for AAA game designers.” This allows creatives to focus on developing top-of-the-line games, thinking about the game, its dynamics, and its story, and not about monetization or the distribution channel.
“The current model of video games makes companies focus on user acquisition models, and they are more concerned with how to retain and make them spend money within the games, than with the development of the game itself,” Harman said in relation. with the reasons for his game monetization scheme.
To access this virtual world you need to acquire an NFT, which unlike the formats that became popular as purely art or speculative pieces, this Token is your access to the Unioverse and your main character. Once inside, all the pieces of content from graphic, audiovisual or development become a royalty-free space.
As a developer, graphic creator or writer, you will be able to make use of the character, complement it, create a story, an identity for it and translate it into the format that is to your liking and sell merchandise, comics or games without the need to pay Unioverse.
In addition, by generating a community in the metaverse, the players are within the same ecosystem. In this way, the user acquisition process avoids intermediaries and eliminates the commissions they charge, as Steam or the Epic Store do, or even the royalties that must be granted to graphic engines such as Unreal Engine.
This in order to make the economic resources of the developers more efficient, so that they are used in mere development and avoid other types of problems. For example, the exhausting hours that employees of companies such as CD Projekt Red, creator of The Witcher or Cyberpunk 2077 or Epic Games have denounced to constantly renew skins, which have even led to launching games full of bugs or unfinished. All to achieve the promised release dates.
Harman has an end with this development and it is to revolutionize the way in which we relate to the metaverse, NFTs and video games. It arises as a response to the constant criticism of what is the utility in daily life of having these formats. Why would someone acquire an NFT, or enter the metaverse if it is something that you can enjoy more outside of online life? Unioverse gives meaning to that question and creates an entire platform for gamers – developers and players alike – all in one space.