Unity teams up with Gala Games to help build VOXverse metaverse
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Gala Games has partnered with Unity Technologies in a $20 million professional services deal to deliver on an ambitious metaverse project involving Sim City creator Will Wright.
Under the deal, Unity will use its development and real-time 3D platform expertise for VOXverse, the metaverse for Gala Games‘ VOX Collectible Series, which encompasses multiple games.
Gala is a Web3 gaming and entertainment company that is publishing a lot of games funded through sales of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and its GALA token. It has been able to fund big budget games this way, and it has drawn seasoned game developers like Wright.
About 1.3 million players have been supporting Gala Games, and a total of 28 games are now in development, said Jason “BitBender” Brink, president of blockchain at Gala, in a press event.
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“We gave a little peek behind the curtain on VoxVerse,” Brink said. “There’s some cool stuff coming that we’ve done with Vox recently.”
The company did a drop of adventure packs for Vox fans. And it will launch VOX Souls at the end of the month, which will determine what kind of character you play in the VOXverse. VOX Idle, a text-based game, is liked an old adventure game and it will be playable on Discord in July.
Gala Games built its blockchain ecosystem on the Gala Games token (GALA), which was created on the ERC-20 standard for the Ethereum
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