EVE On-line developer CCP Video games has dropped some preliminary particulars about Undertaking Awakening, its forthcoming blockchain recreation set within the EVE universe. Extra broadly, the information additionally reveals the place the sport developer of 21 years is heading.
“Designed with participant empowerment at its coronary heart, Undertaking Awakening is being developed as a single-shard survival expertise constructed upon the ideas of freedom, consequence, and mastery inside a residing universe. A universe that may evolve from the actions and efforts of its gamers,” as per the announcement.
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First up, the studio has scheduled its subsequent closed playtest, Part III, which is able to begin twenty first Could.
Being extra than simply one other playtest nevertheless, Part III will permit gamers to have interaction with programmable recreation programs and construct their very own options and performance throughout the world, just like how Playmint’s Downstream and a number of different absolutely onchain video games invite their communities into the event course of.
To that time, CCP has additionally introduced that the sport might be constructed on Lattice’s MUD framework, which is designed for absolutely onchain video games working on Ethereum and EVM blockchains. Whereas utilizing CCP’s inhouse cross-platform Carbon Growth Platform for the frontend, the developer additionally emphasises its intention to make Undertaking Awakening an open supply venture as a part of its dedication to decentralization.
“We’ve got been co-developing video games with gamers for over 20 years: by making the Carbon Growth Platform open supply we at the moment are taking the subsequent step on this journey. Our imaginative and prescient is to open up recreation growth to everybody. Whether or not you’re a participant, a developer, or a programmer, we need to empower you in constructing digital worlds. As a part of this, we’re excited to disclose the primary particulars about Undertaking Awakening, which embodies this philosophy. Gamers can have a brand new sequence of instruments at their disposal so as to add their very own options and performance to the expertise,” commented CCP Video games CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson.
Undertaking Awakening is described as a single-shard survival recreation set in a darkish and dystopic a part of house the place humanity has come to wreck and fights to outlive whereas rebuilding a damaged world. In March 2023, CCP introduced it had raised $40 million for the event of the sport.
Customers interested by making use of for the playtest, can sign up here.