While Gallium Artists, his studio co-founded with Lauren Elliott (Carmen Sandiego) has still not released the mobile game Proxi announced in March 2018, we learn at Axios that Will Wright is already turned to another project called VoxVerse, a game that intends to use the blockchain not to make its money on the most fervent followers of NFTs and other cryptocurrencies, but to address the greatest number, he says.
“I’m much more interested in attracting a million free-to-play players than, you know, 10,000 super-rich whales, even if we could use those whales“, explains Will Wright, using the term designating people who spend an excessive amount of money on free-to-play. VoxVerse is presented as a metaverse (a virtual world) set on a huge cube where players will be able to own land, create attractions, mine resources in biomes on each side of the cube, and socialize.
The creator of sims thinks his game will appeal to three groups of people. First a small number of wealthy virtual landowners, who will pay for their plots in cryptocurrencies. Then a middle group of creative players who will be asked by landowners to create items and who will share the proceeds from the sale of what they have created. And finally, the majority of users who will play for free worldwide. Like a small echo of simsthe game will integrate notoriety and trust systems as well as the basic needs of the characters such as energy or hunger.
Will Wright and Lauren Elliott have the support of Unity and Gala Games, an NFT specialist platform, which has invested more than $25 million in the project. For some reason, characters from licenses like The Trolls from DreamWorks or The Walking Dead from AMC will meet in this world as ugly NFTs. “I don’t really want to be in selling NFT”however, assures Will Wright, stressing that his interest in the blockchain is to allow secure transactions between players.