PUBG Creator Krafton Unveils ‘Overdare’ NFT Game With AI Creation Tools

South Korean sport studio Krafton, maker of the favored battle royale shooter PUBG, introduced Thursday that its upcoming NFT-driven metaverse sport challenge shall be known as Overdare—and provided a primary have a look at the creation-centric platform.

Beforehand often called Mission Migaloo, Overdare will soft-launch in December and absolutely launch someday between January and July 2024, Krafton mentioned in an announcement. The corporate has created its personal blockchain, Settlus, for the sport. 

Overdare seems to be a Roblox-like cellular sport platform constructed with Epic Video games’ Unreal Engine 5 that may supply creators generative synthetic intelligence (AI) instruments to assist avid gamers craft their very own shooter video games, role-playing video games (RPGs), and motion RPGs, to call just a few. The social sport platform may even let customers create customized avatars and chat with one another.

The primary official teaser trailer above suggests an open-world platform that lets customers construct video games and environments utilizing AI instruments, play the big selection of user-generated video games, attend digital concert events, customise their avatars, and extra.

Earlier this 12 months, Krafton introduced the challenge as a three way partnership between the studio and Naver Z, an augmented actuality (AR) tech agency. Krafton nonetheless holds an 85% stake within the challenge, whereas Naver Z holds the remaining 15%. 

Overdare plans to supply gamers what it calls a “create-to-earn” sport economic system, the place avid gamers should buy and promote in-game digital belongings as NFTs. The sport will use NFTs as a result of such crypto tokens will supply “transparency and safe transactions,” in response to an announcement.

Krafton and Naver Z are utilizing the not too long ago revealed Settlus blockchain for Overdare’s economic system, which can permit avid gamers to earn funds in Coinbase and Circle’s U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, USDC. Settlus will use Cosmos to facilitate USDC funds, as first introduced final week throughout a Korea Blockchain Week occasion.

The Settlus Twitter account lists it as a blockchain created by Krafton and calls it “the way forward for the creator economic system.”

In a Medium weblog put up, Krafton’s Settlus wrote that it plans to introduce an “NFT licensing system,” however didn’t elaborate on what precisely that may entail. It additionally mentioned that it’s at the moment working to deal with potential points with Overdare’s deliberate NFT economic system, corresponding to doubtlessly providing elective NFTs as a substitute of compulsory ones, addressing merchandise shortage or an absence thereof, and addressing issues with risky token costs that may result in “a detrimental expertise” for avid gamers and creators.

It’s at the moment unclear whether or not Settlus may even supply its personal token at a later date. Representatives for Krafton didn’t instantly reply to Decrypt’s request for touch upon the standing of Settlus and whether or not it’s going to challenge a brand new token or solely use USDC.

Stablecoins like USDC are sometimes chosen by crypto companies and merchants as a result of their worth is much much less risky than cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. As an alternative, stablecoins are supposed to stay pegged to the U.S. Greenback.