Web3 Studio Overlord Taps Dan Houser-Backed Revolving Games to Build NFT Game

Bought lizard folks? Web3 mission Overlord does, and it has enlisted recreation studio Revolving Video games—backed by Rockstar Video games co-founder Dan Houser—to develop a online game within the Overlord ecosystem, which options colourful lizard NFTs. 

Overlord cofounder Dom Smith advised Decrypt concerning the plans for the yet-to-be-named sci-fi recreation, which goals to span a number of planets and universes and be “cross-chain from day zero.”

“The sport is an immersive exploration of the Overlord universe the place gamers can be battling their solution to interplanetary domination by talent, technique, and crafty,” Smith mentioned.

There can be completely different alien civilizations for gamers to come across, every with their very own lore.

“Every species has their very own motivations and abilities, and as a consequence of their distinctive abundance of assets and technological developments, have completely different types of conquering their enemies,” Smith mentioned.

Overlord’s Web3 gaming technique is targeted on gameplay first and recreation economics second, with Smith including that the group is “laser-focused on mainstream adoption.”

“The blockchain must be invisible,” Smith advised Decrypt. “Gamers ought to get all of the sensible advantages of asset possession and on-chain mechanics with out essentially being conscious that it’s occurring on-chain.”

“To us, blockchain is a know-how, in the identical approach that Unity or a improvement language is,” he added. “It ought to facilitate the play expertise invisibly.”

In February, Overlord introduced that it’s working with NFT fan and actor Seth Inexperienced’s Stoopid Buddy Studios to develop an animated sequence primarily based on the Creepz Lizard NFTs, which launched in January 2022 on Ethereum and have since generated over 35,800 ETH in whole quantity traded, which is value about $65 million at the moment.

Revolving Video games confirmed to Decrypt by way of e-mail that Overlord can be utilizing its instruments to create a Creepz recreation.

Overlord’s recreation deck states that the Creepz assortment additionally boasts various movie star homeowners, together with Inexperienced in addition to musicians Sia and Steve Aoki, actor Elijah Wooden, and YouTuber and gamer FaZe Banks.