gm, really tough day today. I am hellbent on transforming yuga and getting us back to our roots, and that means making hard decisions. by far the hardest is saying goodbye to some talented team members. here was my message to the team this morning.
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First time for this new town hall format and over 1.2k of you crammed in at the last minute. Hell yeah. Thank you.
TLDR: Here's what we're focused on.
EVENTS: Monthly starting July, and not just social ones like Apes Come Home. We’re talking 3k+ players with low-latency, action gameplay. Guns and stuff. Mayhem.
ODK ALPHA: Putting builder tools in the hands of the community immediately.
REWARDS: Rewards for those who build Otherside.
First: We’re buds with Improbable again, Otherside is being built on MSquared, and @HermanNarula and the IO boys bought apes. Cool.
Stoked for 2nd Trip tomorrow - it’s a big step towards a persistent Otherside. Should be a great event for all Voyagers, but equally important it’s an opportunity to try out a lot of things that will help inform future co-development. 🧵
So what can we expect? There’ll be some fun new traversal mechanics, several new character models, a big push on concurrent players (need to beat the 4.4k Voyagers we had for First Trip), more regions supported, and a couple new environments...
There’s also going to be some light competition led by four great team captains. While there have been small closed-door tests, having literally thousands of users competing in the same space is not something I’ve seen in literally any video game or metaverse.
We love CryptoPunks. It’s no secret that Matt and John’s creation was a massive inspiration for BAYC. @GordonGoner and I see Punks as fine art - a generative art experiment etched onto the blockchain, adopted by a diverse community that stuck around in 2018 when so many left.
When we acquired Punks from Larva Labs, there were only two things we knew we wanted to do - the first was to turn over commercial rights to NFT holders similar to how we did for BAYC. The new terms will be rolling out in the next couple weeks.