What is Metaversy?

The short answer is it's a blockchain based trading game where you as a player can trade virtual options in companies which only exist in the metaverse.

What does that mean, though?

Talking to Henric Swahn, the award-winning and incredibly experienced game developer in charge of bringing the Metaversy game to life, is somewhat like finding yourself caught in a blizzard of information, enthusiasm and ideas. But breaking it all down, this is what Henric's saying.

Metaversy is going to be the world's first fully emergent, multiplayer narrative simulation trading game. In other words, any comparable games in the past, or presently out there, have been dull, linear, just a matter of numbers on a screen. But this game will take place within a solid and well-crafted world and story that will be compelling, inspiring, exciting and evolving, which will both encourage and reward the creativity, ingenuity and personal expression of the players.

Who doesn't want to be the Wolf of Wall Street, beating the market at its own game, but without the scary possibility of losing a fortune, and possibly ending up in jail as well? 

So how do you play?

Wherever you are, whenever you want, you can log into the Metaversy virtual world and play. You can do it on your phone, while you're on the morning train, or you can be using a bigger, more powerful platform where the truly immersive quality of the graphics, the universe, the evolving story will be so much more impressive.

Each company in the virtual world in which Metaversy operates will have an invented name, a profile and a history. These will all report activities and plans to the Metaversy stock market, taking into account the ups and downs of both real world and fictional interactions you will have within the game. You could find yourself having to excuse yourself from a social situation because you just got a text telling you to buy a bunch of a company's Virtuals right now. 

And furthermore, there will be 'cards' you can have in your armoury, more or less randomly distríbuted to the players, which will have an influence that is at least in part driven by your own skill and immersion within the game. You'll be able to use your guile, your tactical acumen, your skill, either employing abilities and knowledge you have developed in the real world, or learning how to develop those incredibly useful and important business skills in the ecosystem of a game that mimics the world of stock market trading, but without the dangers.  

All of this will take place within a world that is completely believable, great to look at, with a longterm evolving story within which you'll see live, real time narratives. Some of this will be generated within the game, but a lot will also come from the players, their behaviour, preferences, even their interaction with each other. You could have a sitaution where there's a player generated 'stampede' from a company, or indeed the same in opposite - generated both by the narrative of the game and organically, by the players.

"I've worked on a lot of different projects, and strive for creating the universally recognisable with my work. I chose this one as my next because it is, not exaggerating, a whole new level of exposure and story- telling possibility." Says Henric Swahn 

That's what Metaversy really is, in the end. A game that does what no other game has done before. A game-changer.