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Alex Paley, Founder of Faraway, Reveals Mini Royale: Nations New Partnership With Ready Player Me

admin — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 20:46:46 +0000

Alex Paley, founder of Faraway, reveals Mini Royale: Nations has a new partnership with Ready Player Me. Mini Royale: Nations will apparently let its players use avatars from its game in other apps that are accessible through a partnership with Ready Player Me. This means players will be able to use their Mini Royale: Nations avatars in games from up to 6,000 developers.

Alex Paley is a co-founder of Faraway, a gaming studio specializing in mid-core games with player-driven economies. Faraway is the studio behind Mini Royale: Nations. Faraway is supported by some of the best web3 investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, a16z, Sequoia, and Pantera Capital, among others. Prior to founding Faraway with his long-time co-founder, Dennis Zdonov, he was VP of Product at Scopely and Head of Studio at Glu Mobile.

Mini-Royale: Nations only just announced a partnership with Audius to bring in-game music. Mini-Royale players can now listen to music streamed from Audius, a decentralized music streaming platform, while in-game.

BeyondME To Use AeonXP To Help Falcon’s Beyond Join Web3 and The Metaverse

admin — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 17:08:20 +0000

Falcon’s Beyond is described as a company that specializes in entertainment experiences. They just announced a new software, called BeyondME, which will combine all of Falcon’s Beyond entertainment properties into “one connected, online world”. AeonXP is the technology developed by Falcon’s Beyond that the company will be utilizing to join the metaverse.

Guests at physical or online events hosted by Falcon’s Beyond will soon be able to join the BeyondME metaverse. With the help of Ready Player Me, the well-known metaverse-based avatar and clothing company, guests can upload a selfie to auto-generate their avatar. Players will also apparently be able to earn the in-game currency, called $XP, to upgrade their characters’ clothing or powers.

Cecil D. Magpuri, CEO of Falcon’s Beyond, stated:

“We believe BeyondME is the next evolution of experiential entertainment, expanding the metaverse concept from what is traditionally virtual experiences into the real world at our brick-and-mortar destinations. Our guests will be able to interact with rides, attractions, and experiences across our destination properties, and then continue to build on their experiences long after they’ve returned home.”

Ready Player Me Has Announced $56 Million Series B Funding Round

admin — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 18:43:13 +0000

Ready Player Me just announced it has closed a $56 million Series B funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s (a16z) Games Fund One. Other notable investors include David Baszucki (co-founder of Roblox), Justin Kan (co-founder of Twitch), Sebastian Knutsson & Riccardo Zacconi (co-founders of King), and more.

Ready Player Me is described as a “cross-game metaverse avatar platform that allows users to explore virtual worlds with one consistent identity.” To date, Ready Player Me has partnerships with more than 3,000 game and app companies using its avatars.

The 3,000 apps across both web2 and web3 include the likes of VRChat, Spatial, Somnium Space, RTFKT, and many more. The company also already works with individual creators and fashion brands such as Adidas, New Balance, Dior, Pull&Bear, and Warner Brothers (Dune movie outfits) to enable cross-game avatar assets across the metaverse.

Hiber Begins Their Partnership With Ready Player Me To Bring 3D Avatars To HiberWorld Game

admin — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 18:16:24 +0000

Founded in 2017 and based in Gothenburg, Sweden, Hiber is building a “universally accessible web-first, no-code, free-to-use platform” called HiberWorld. Their aim is to remove the barriers to entry for everyone to create, play, and participate in an open Metaverse.

HiberWorld apparently already supports millions of interconnected virtual worlds. The company states that HiberWorld features a “proprietary next generation 3D engine and is incorporating web3 technology to support digital ownership and interoperability”.

The company is backed by a number of top investors in consumer technology, gaming and blockchain including EQT Ventures, Luminar Ventures, Konvoy Ventures, CMT Digital, Dreamcraft Ventures, SYBO, the mini fund, and others.

Hiber just announced on Twitter that they are partnering with avatar company Ready Player Me to bring cross-platform 3D avatars to their HiberWorld. The collaboration with Ready Player Me will allow users to explore new environments in the metaverse under one identity. Lastly, they will be able to immerse themselves in the platform’s various worlds and games including 3D hangouts, challenges, interactive science museums, roller coasters, art showcases, and more.