Today, we are excited to announce our investment in metaENGINE, the first-of-its-kind infrastructure platform with its own game engine.

Gaming, and its relationship with the metaverse has been a topic of interest in the last few months, with all eyes on what all this means for Web3. Be it the introduction of new dynamics into existing games or the design of blockchain games from the ground up, major gaming studios are incorporating blockchain development increasingly into their upcoming project launches. Not surprisingly, new business models and actors have emerged — Play-2-earn, for instance, as one of the first and most notable examples of this shift and gaming guilds as a prominent voice within the segment.

Yet, despite the strong developer interest in GameFi, existing platform solutions are more often crude, difficult to integrate, with significant time and resources required for game development. While existing blockchain gaming companies have sought to offer SDKs to add GameFi features to games, they are not without their shortcomings. For instance, certain platforms still require extensive integration work and the need to hire blockchain, networking, database, and server engineers. This compounds the general skills gap in blockchain development for game developers, and the lack of a decentralised, crypto-friendly and single integrated platform, which only serves to add to existing complexities.

We believe that metaENGINE is the solution to these current market challenges faced by existing incumbents. Through taking complete care of the integration process and the introduction of a comprehensive game engine, a multi blockchain infrastructure, and an in-built publishing platform, metaENGINE is designed with the interests of GameFi developers in mind. Immediate benefits include shortened time to market, significant reductions to the overall development budget, minimised technology risk, and an ability to develop better content. In bringing to the market a more efficient, cheaper, and unified technology, metaENGINE seeks to tackle a current fragmented market segment and establish itself as a leader in the space.

Alex and the team are industry veterans with extensive experience in game infrastructure and game development. The brains behind HeroEngine, a game with 30M+ active MMO players worldwide, they have now come together to build the first-of-its-kind blockchain gaming infrastructure platform, on their vision to revolutionise decentralised game development.

We are excited to work closely with the team to forge the path to becoming the industry’s leading GameFi development infrastructure player. Stay tuned for exciting innovations from the metaENGINE team coming your way!