Since Moonland’s super early development stages, we’ve made it a priority to document and share our journey: our wins, our plans, our challenges, and our creative process. A couple of months ago, I had the chance to record some podcast episodes with some of our team members to understand better and in more detail what it takes to build a gaming metaverse.This is why I decided to start a series of articles and social media posts named ‘ Behind the scenes of building a gaming metaverse,’ and for part 1, we will talk about my conversation with Brandon, Moonland’s lead technical artist.Before getting into Moonland matter, I really wanted to know Brandon’s story about how he ended up in this industry.Brandon grew up surrounded by technology; his dad was a huge tech nerd and got him into tech at a really young age. He grew up playing video games and got into coding while doing some moding work for a game. He would write small features for them and then add them to the game. Besides having his dad as a mentor and building most of his skills by himself, he also went to school to broaden his knowledge and better understand what he has been passionate about his whole life.Around 2008 Brandon found the Unity Game Engine; he made a bunch of prototypes here and there and recreated features from other games to show off to his friends.Let&#39;s talk about Moonland.Brandon started working in Moonland from its pre-production stage. I really wanted to understand Brandon’s role in Moonland, and here’s how he explained it to make it super simple: if an artist has an idea or they want something being implemented, he figures out a way to do it...he makes it happen inside the game. Brandon handles overall in-game logic, implementation, and custom tools.A funny story of when Brandon got hired was that he initially applied for the 3D generalist position. When he was being interviewed by Kieran, our art director, Kieran noticed he wrote a bunch of code and was like,’ you wrote all that code, didn&#39;t you? you are doing that, and that’s how he ended up in the Lead technical artist role.This kind of gives you an idea about Brandon&#39;s versatility and multiple abilities in different knowledge fields; he even mentioned that he likes to dabble with animation, sound design, UI, UX, and even business stuff… he says he loves everything about creating games.I asked Brandon some questions about his achievements and challenges since he started working in Moonland, and here’s how he answered them.Q: What is the thing you are proudest of developing in Moonland and why?A: The networking. The way that we’ve been doing the server stuff, the way that we have the networking set up, we found a way to keep it simple but also have a way for data to be transferred in different levels, worlds, and servers.Q: How do you organize the way you work?A: Many post-it notes, Trello, and other platforms. During meetings, I build to-do lists on post-it notes and then transfer that to Trello. If I need to learn how to do something to get something done, I write notes in Notion, and whenever I need to explain a specific feature that I made, I use Confluence.Q: What has been your biggest challenge in the building of MoonlandA:  Switching to the Unreal Engine has been the biggest challenge, mainly because I had more than 10 years of experience with a different game engine. It’s been nice to do the change; it’s been challenging but liberating. It excites me to learn new tech and improve my ability as a programmer.

Behind the scenes of building a gaming metaverse PT 1

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