PUBG creator Brendan Greene is working on a blockchain metaverse game

PUBG creator Brendan Greene has revealed his next blockchain-powered game.

Artemis will be a metaverse game with NFTs, as announced on Nathan Brown’s Hit Points.

“I’m just going to do what I’m going to do,” he said. “[Artemis is] this thing we want to create, and it’s going to give people a lot of fun, a lot of joy, and a lot of meaningful things to do. But it doesn’t matter if it’s called the metaverse. I don’t care what people want to call it.”

He notes that since the game is a world where players can create, a record of ownership is required – as well as a way for players to monetize their creations.

“We’re building a digital place,” he said. “It has to have an economy, and it has to have systems at work. And I think you should be able to extract value from a digital place; it has to be like the internet, where you can do things that will make you money. But it’s not trading about Chanel and Louis Vuitton. There’s a kid named AwesomePickle who sells cool skins because he understands what people want.”

The technology behind the game will also be open source.

“It’s for everybody, right? Ultimately it shouldn’t be controlled by us,” he said. “It may be a platform that we participate in the maintenance of, but it is something that everyone can connect to, and everyone can host a bit of themselves.

“I’m pretty keen on this. It has to be made a certain way. The only way this exists is if it’s made for everybody, and it’s not made for money.”

So what is Artemis?

Brendan left the PUBG development team in 2019 to set up PlayerUnknown Productions in Amsterdam, with Artemis as the main project.

It is meant to be a virtual world the size of Earth where hundreds of thousands of players can create and play whatever they want.

There is also something of a research project on using AI to populate its world – using an ML agent to, for example, program animal behavior or NPC AI.

As Brown notes, “what Artemis ultimately becomes is up to the people who choose to live, play and create there”.

In wider PUBG news, developer Krafton has a new game in the works called The Bird That Drinks Tears, based on a Korean fantasy novel of the same name.