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The metaverse may
be many things to many people, but one thing everyone agrees on is that a lot
of people will come together in its virtual worlds to play video games.
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“Video game
developers are likely to be the primary designers of the metaverse because at
its core the metaverse is a video game,” Janine Yorio, head of real estate at
online investment platform Republic, and Zach Hungate, director of gaming at
Everyrealm, a metaverse innovation and investment company, declare in CoinDesk.
Video games, they
say, are the primary activity that will bring us to the metaverse in the first
place, and then have us coming back over and over and over again.
“Video games have
become a primary form of socialization,” they argue. “The metaverse generation
of children up to age 18 today has very different expectations from technology
— even compared to millennials. They spend time in interactive environments
where they play games, socialize with friends, build small businesses, and buy
and sell things.”
Today’s youth wants
the socialization of playing together online. They believe the next set of
metaverse video games will not be after-thoughts or mini games but the main
experience.
This will include
first-person shooters like Fortnite as well as old-school arcade games that
resemble Super Mario Brothers or Pac Man. Other times we will procrastinate
with more mindless pattern games like Candy Crush or build worlds like the Sims
or Second Life.
If that’s beginning
to sound like a lot like Ready, Player One then Yorio and Hungate
would concur Author Ernest Cline’s vision of the metaverse is as a grandiose
virtual reality where people spend the majority of their time, offering an
escape from a reality battered by social, economic and political strife.
The metaverse, in
their conception, will consist of robust and highly customizable video game
worlds. The games will be of an extremely high quality, often built by AAA
gaming studios. They may also be built on the blockchain and it is video game
developers who will be the architects of this world.
“When a person
turns a door knob in the metaverse, the door swings open. That is not just a 3D
architectural model, but a world with cause and effect — and few coders outside
of gaming studios know how to program that world.”
Video game
developers are typically among the best and brightest graduates of computer
science educational programs because video game development is highly complex.
“The person writing
the code must think in 3D,” they say. “These developers cannot be created
rapidly in coding schools the way that HTML developers are, which means there
will be a greater demand for game development talent from remote locations and
emerging markets, causing a new economic opportunity for those who are crafty
enough to teach themselves game development.”
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