The Sims and Sim City creator Will Wright has confirmed that he is working on a new blockchain game called VoxVerse.
During a recent interview with Axios, Wright shared the details of his upcoming game and stated that it will take place in a virtual world where players will live on a cube. On this cube, players will own land, mine, harvest resources, and create “attractions.”
The blockchain game is being developed at Gallium Games with the Unity engine, a blockchain-focused startup co-founded by Wright and Carmen Sandiego co-creator Lauren Elliott.
Gallium Games reportedly received $25million (£22.5million) from NFT and crypto gaming bankrollers Gala Games in order to fund the project.
VoxVerse will feature a tiered monetization model and a fame and trust system similar to The Sims, Wright explained. He added that it will have rich virtual landowners who invest in crypto. There will also be a middle group that can make things for the rich ones, as well as free-to-play players who can join and play in the world.
Wright explained that the game isn’t focused on obtaining whales who spend excessive amounts of real-life money in the game, saying, “I’m much more interested in attracting a million free-to-play players than, you know, 10,000 rich whales, although we could use those rich whales.”
