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EVE Online dev CCP’s blockchain “survival experience” Project Awakening is getting a closed playtest in MayCarbon Development Platform also going open source
Carbon Development Platform also going open source
Image credit:CCP
Image credit:CCP
CCP Games have shared a few more details about Project Awakening, a new game or at least, “survival experience” set in the Eve Online universe, which is getting a closed playtest from 21st May 2024. Project Awakening is a single-shard affair - that is, one in whichall players inhabit the same world, rather than being split up across servers or instances. It’s “built upon the principles of freedom, consequence, and mastery within a living universe”, and “represents the next step in CCP Games' journey to create virtual worlds more meaningful than real life”, which, you know, wind your neck in.
The project is set in a region of space where civilization has collapsed. It tasks players with exploring and rebuilding a “broken world”. As you might guess from the extremely high-on-their-own-supply language above, it’s also a blockchain and cryptography-based affair, which the developers have broadly presented as a bid to ensure that the EVE universe outlives CCP. Our Jeremy Peelinterviewed CCP about all thisin October last year.
You can register for the Project Awakening closed playtesthere. The playtest “will allow players to engage with programmable game systems and build their own features and functionality within the world”. CCP are also hosting an “online hackathon” for Project Awakening builders, with the winning teams given the chance to visit CCP’s Iceland HQ, though what exactly you’ll be building remains a matter of guesswork.
CCP’s CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson was a lot more down-to-Earth when Jeremy spoke to him last October. In particular, he offered the following, spirited defence of the game’s blockchain functionality, which can sort of be boiled down to “trust me, bro”, but is at least upfront about the many bad uses to which blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies have been put.
Any takers?
