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During 2024, CCP Games will have multiple playtests for Project Awakening, a next-generation blockchain game set with the Eve Online universe.
The next tests, dubbed Phase III, get underway on May 21 where about 5,000 people will test a level of the game for six weeks. CCP Games, a 26-year-old studio, will continue to operate Eve Online (launched in 2003) separately as it launches Project Awakening, which will be a single-shard survival experience.
CCP Games CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson spoke with me about this recently as the latest effort to create virtual worlds more meaningful than real life.
Designed with player empowerment at its heart, Project Awakening is built upon the principles of freedom, consequence, and mastery within a living universe. A universe that will evolve from the actions and efforts of its players.
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As a single-shard survival experience, Project Awakening is set in the dark expanse of space where civilization has decayed in the ruin of its own ambition. Players will explore a hostile and dangerous cosmos as they fight to survive against what remains and attempt to rebuild a broken world. The space exist in an area of physical anomaly, where three black holes are arrayed in a kind of three-body problem, Pétursson said.
CCP Games CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson at GDC in San Francisco.
The space game will be graphically rich. For now, the company is using a lot of Eve assets just to get started with placeholder art. But the game will get more and more of its own assets and its own unique idenitty, Pétursson said.
The game bears some resemblance to an extraction shooter now but Pétursson sees it as a sandbox shooter leveraging the existing sandbox of Eve Online, with economic and social connections. He said much of the inspiration from games comes from players, who are passionate about Eve Online and offer feedback all the time.
The game takes place in a in a very different part of the world where Eve Online takes place,” he said. “It is a very unique culture. It’s uses a different type of technology. We’ve been really releasing some of the science fiction behind the game, which takes place around three black holes that are spinning around each other in a sort of a “three-body problem” with black holes. And, by the way, the three-body problems involving black holes are a rather complicated math phenomenon. The math literally doesn’t exist to do it. We’ve been working with astrophysicists around the world.”
Powered by the Carbon Development Platform and MUD by Lattice, CCP Games is creating a persistent world bound by digital physics, where composability and programmability will enable players to build and collaborate on top, outside of and within the emergent game environment – unlocking boundless creativity …
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During 2024, CCP Games will have multiple playtests for Project Awakening, a next-generation blockchain game set with the Eve Online universe.
The next tests, dubbed Phase III, get underway on May 21 where about 5,000 people will test a level of the game for six weeks. CCP Games, a 26-year-old studio, will continue to operate Eve Online (launched in 2003) separately as it launches Project Awakening, which will be a single-shard survival experience.
CCP Games CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson spoke with me about this recently as the latest effort to create virtual worlds more meaningful than real life.
Designed with player empowerment at its heart, Project Awakening is built upon the principles of freedom, consequence, and mastery within a living universe. A universe that will evolve from the actions and efforts of its players.
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We’re thrilled to open our call for speakers to our flagship event, GamesBeat Summit 2024 hosted in Los Angeles, where we will explore the theme of “Resilience and Adaption”.
Apply to speak here
As a single-shard survival experience, Project Awakening is set in the dark expanse of space where civilization has decayed in the ruin of its own ambition. Players will explore a hostile and dangerous cosmos as they fight to survive against what remains and attempt to rebuild a broken world. The space exist in an area of physical anomaly, where three black holes are arrayed in a kind of three-body problem, Pétursson said.
CCP Games CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson at GDC in San Francisco.
The space game will be graphically rich. For now, the company is using a lot of Eve assets just to get started with placeholder art. But the game will get more and more of its own assets and its own unique idenitty, Pétursson said.
The game bears some resemblance to an extraction shooter now but Pétursson sees it as a sandbox shooter leveraging the existing sandbox of Eve Online, with economic and social connections. He said much of the inspiration from games comes from players, who are passionate about Eve Online and offer feedback all the time.
The game takes place in a in a very different part of the world where Eve Online takes place,” he said. “It is a very unique culture. It’s uses a different type of technology. We’ve been really releasing some of the science fiction behind the game, which takes place around three black holes that are spinning around each other in a sort of a “three-body problem” with black holes. And, by the way, the three-body problems involving black holes are a rather complicated math phenomenon. The math literally doesn’t exist to do it. We’ve been working with astrophysicists around the world.”
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