Dundee firm to design adventure game
A Dundee games start-up has been awarded a six-figure contract to build and design a game for a Hong Kong-based blockchain gaming platform.
Primordialgamesstudiosaid the contract had been established through The Sandbox Game Makers Fund, with the Tayside firm one of the first studios joining the programme.
Sandbox, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, is creating a virtual world where players can build, own, and monetise their gamingexperiencesusingnonfungible tokens (NFTS) and $SAND, the main utility token of the platform, based on the Ethereum Blockchain. To date The Sandbox has signed more than 140 partners.
Founded in early 2020, Primordial has staff in Dundee and Oakland, California, and is preparingtowelcometwomore team members in the coming months.
Specialising in historythemed games, puzzle, platforming and narrative genres, the game is expected to be a social platforming adventure scheduled to be released later this year with additional content released monthly until early 2023.
Vaughan Holloway, founder of Primordial Games, said: “We are really excited to be one of the first studios involved with this ground-breaking initiative fromthesandbox.theirvision is to curate a deeply immersive metaverse in which virtual worlds and games will be created collaboratively and without central authority.
“Collectively, the Primordial teamisextremelystrong,bringingtogetherexceptionaldesign, art and audio expertise. Creating a game for such a far-reaching platform will really allow us to flex both our creative and technical talent with what we expecttobeimpressiveresults.”