Mysten Labs is Grand Cross: Metaworld’s blockchain partner
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Netmarble F&C subsidiary Metaverse World selects Mysten Labs as blockchain partner for Grand Cross: Metaworld. Mysten Labs is the creator of Sui, a layer 1 blockchain. The founders of the company are former Meta developers who worked on Project Libra.
Sui is a Layer 1 blockchain designed from the ground up to allow developers to build experiences that cater directly to users. It supports a wide range of development at both high speed and low cost. Sui boasts high throughput, instant settlement speeds and rich on-chain assets.
Most importantly, it offers user-friendly Web3 experiences.
“Large metaverses require good infrastructure,” said Netmarble’s Woowon Seo, in a statement to GamesBeat. “We are excited to partner with Mysten to build our metaverse on Sui, which is uniquely designed to support fun games and high-performance experiences at scale.”
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Grand Cross: Metaworld enables thousands of simultaneous users to hang out in different cities and neighborhoods in a huge open world. It rocks a distinct anime style, covering both characters and settings.
Like all aspiring metaverses, Grand Cross: Metaworld allows players to design their own spaces, from actually creating a place to decorating it. Players will be able to use webcams and mobile cameras to customize their individual avatars. The same technology can create user-generated content to share over the internet.
One of the biggest selling points of Grand Cross: Metaworld is that the entire project uses Unreal for 4k graphics. The team behind Metaworld built their own cartoon rendering shader to use with Unreal 5 to make everything come together.
I want to say one thing about Grand Cross: Metaworld. It looks lovely. Whoever put together the trailer for the upcoming closed beta test deserves a bonus, a raise or something.
What I’m really curious about, though, is that Metaworld is trying to dive into the V-Tuber market. It cites built-in tools for creating V-tube models. In particular, it recognizes the high entry costs for anyone looking to put together a functional setup for Vtubing – the hardware can cost hundreds of dollars alone, and cheap Vtuber models cost about the same.
The really good ones cost thousands.
Depending on the level of customization and motion tracking available in Grand Cross: Metaworld, there could just be a new wave of Vtubers, with gorgeous anime models streaming from a gorgeous 4K backdrop.
It’s honestly exciting.
Grand Cross: Metaworld is entering a closed beta test in the first half of 2023, aiming for a full release by the end of 2023.
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