Quick Takes:
- Metaverse can be seen as a large-scale game itself.
- Games with rich gameplay for their players to undertake various kinds of activities would automatically evolve into a universe.
- Large-scale complex applications are those that are most easily converted into a Metaverse.
Have you ever tried a life simulation video game? Or ever feel like giving it a go? The social simulation video game Animal Crossing: New Horizons undoubtedly had its time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Millions of people found their comfort on a virtual island by conducting activities like fishing, bug catching, fossil hunting, and interacting with artificial lives.
Imagine that this small island evolves into a bigger world. The things you can do there come to involve all your modern-life daily routines. And you can interact with tons of real people, all in their avatars, with you being one of them. Sounds intriguing? Well, this is the prototype we have for the Metaverse.
The Nature of Metaverse
Revolving around individual life and social relationships, games like Animal Crossing or Sims partially demonstrate what we expect from the Metaverse. Except that with the help of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and cryptocurrency technologies, the Metaverse experience ought to be more immersive and comprehensive.
The comprehensiveness of Metaverse lies in the different functions it encompasses other than gaming itself. Metaverse can be a gigantic game application serving the whole entertainment industry on top of gaming. Be that virtual concerts or online exhibitions, more real-life application scenarios are to be explored in the future Metaverse.
Gaming as the Start Point
The open world is an essential concept originating from the field of gaming. It represents the genuine wish of global gamers to have an autonomous world, which coincides with the spirit of Metaverse.
And games, with their well-designed gameplay for players to undertake various kinds of in-game activities, are one of the most complex applications in the world. Through constant development and update with gameplay, a game would not only offer its players more things to do within the game, but, according to Mary Ma, co-founder and chief strategy officer at MixMarvel, also “automatically evolve into a universe as comprehensive as the Metaverse.”
There are already some successful open-world games out there, like Genshin Impact and the earlier mentioned Sims. By enhancing this kind of game, the Metaverse we have in mind is being formed bit by bit.
A Better Choice for Metaverse Conversion
“Metaverse is, in essence, a large-scale game,” Mary Ma once stated. It indeed would be tough for casual games, for instance, with simple gameplay and less complex design, to be converted into an all-embracing Metaverse.
However, it would be much easier to perform such a transition with more complex large-scale games. They usually have complete gameplay logic, extendable game content, high-standard visuals, and more constant iteration. Thus, these games can be easily made compatible with more advanced scenarios that are needed for an organically running Metaverse.
Our Metaverse journey will begin with a transition from gaming. The core nature of Metaverse and its enhancement with Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and cryptocurrency technologies will thus eliminate many of the hard problems of digital existence today, such as data rights, data security, misinformation and radicalization, platform power, and user happiness.
Such a core idea of the Metaverse is what such companies as MixMarvel endeavor to construct by discovering and publishing quality content, especially outstanding game applications.
An ever-growing share of our lives, labor, leisure, time, wealth, happiness, and relationships will be spent inside virtual worlds, rather than just aided through digital devices. It will be a parallel plane of existence that sits atop our digital and physical economies, and unites both.
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