The most recent recreation from Otherside, an NFT gaming agency backed with $450 million value of funding from Bored Ape Yacht Membership’s Yuga Labs, debuted final weekend with chaotic, buggy outcomes.
Undertaking Dragon, a third-person shooter hosted within the Otherside ‘metaverse,’ launched on Saturday. Within the recreation, gamers compete to carry and seize targets throughout an 8-bit metropolis map.
To date, it’s acquired a blended reception. Some customers, many with NFT profile photos, have praised the sport, whereas others have described it as ‘chaos,’ ‘buggy,’ ‘unresponsive,’ and having ‘terrible aim lag.’
One participant stated on X (previously Twitter) that they give up the sport after simply quarter-hour of gameplay. “Still can’t believe that after millions of dollars and several years, this is the product they came up with,” they stated.
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One other complained, “We were supposed to have a fully functional metaverse by the end of 2023. We are approaching the end of 2024. We have none of that and every game has been a failure.”
One consumer had a extra blended response to the discharge. “It was pretty buggy, aim lag was terrible, and it wasn’t really all that fun to be completely honest,” they stated. Nonetheless, they added “A lot of potential here, I just hope it eventually comes to fruition (sooner rather than later).”
Yuga Labs raised $450 million in March 2022 and reportedly used these funds to construct its ‘metaverse’ video games undertaking, Otherside. Each Yuga Labs and Otherside have launched numerous video games and occasions, together with Dookey Labs, Journey 1, Journey 2, and an upcoming Dookey Sprint sequel.
This 12 months, Yuga Labs gave up the mental property rights to 2 of its video games with the intention to ‘unshackle’ its staff. The NFT agency additionally introduced quite a few worker layoffs this 12 months.
CEO of Yuga Labs knew the sport can be chaotic
Undertaking Dragon was apparently playtested with only a few hundred gamers however then launched with a participant rely of over a thousand.
Yuga Labs CEO Greg Solano stated on X, “Bad news: Doing this at scale revealed some bugs that didn’t show up when we did internal tests with only a few hundred.” As a constructive, he stated “It’s hilariously chaotic. On a platform level, shit’s working.”
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Solano did word earlier than launch that this might be the case. He stated, “This is early af. This is the worst version of Project Dragon you’re ever going to experience because we’re going to be iterating on this game every single month.”
Certainly a lot of the reward was primarily based round the truth that it was chaotic, regardless of making elements of the sport just about unplayable. Others additionally defended the sport’s early state.
Saturday’s Undertaking Dragon launch was the primary in a collection of occasions scheduled for the approaching months as a part of an ‘always-evolving experience’ of demos. To play the sport, gamers have been advised to log in with their X account and pockets of option to create a Yuga Labs ID.
Gamers additionally wanted an NFT from one among 13 units, together with Bored Ape Yacht Membership, Otherdeed, Grailed Moonbirds, Meebits, and HV-MTL to call just a few.
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