Exclusive New World Notes Offer: Manticore Wants Virtual World Fans For CORE, Its Upcoming, Unreal-Based Digital Playground & Community

Click here if you're interested in Alpha-testing CORE, an Unreal-based project from Manticore Games, a startup which recently raised $30 million in funding, and is being led by veterans of companies like Blizzard, Xfire, and Roblox. That sign-up link is live for the next 72 hours, during which time New World Notes readers will be able to jump right to the front of the Alpha tester queue-waitlist. 

Manticore isn't saying much about CORE at this point, beyond telling me that they do plan to enable monetization options for content creators. And as you can tell by the screenshots they sent me with the sign-up link, the creation tools seem pretty robust, and have a fun, cartoonish aesthetic that should especially appeal to the Fortnite crowd.

More screenshots below, along with a special note to NWN readers from Manticore CEO and co-founder Frederic Descamps:

"Manticore Games’ mission is to empower a new generation of creators and players. So we created CORE, a digital playground and community designed to unleash imagination and redefine game creation, distribution and play.

"CORE’s Alpha went live just over a month ago, and already we’ve seen a vibrant creator community come to life. In just a few weeks, CORE creators have started to make fun, great looking multiplayer games across several popular genres (FPS, battle royale, RPG, etc.), as well as experiences never before seen in games.  

"Before launching CORE, we anticipated that by creating an accessible, fair place to make HD games and inviting more people into the game creation process, we’d see more emergent experiences as you see with YouTube and Twitch. We also hoped to see things we couldn’t imagine because they weren’t possible before. We’re happy to say that in this early stage of Alpha, the community has already done things we hadn’t anticipated. One example is the creation of an elaborate space station. We hadn't yet added sci-fi materials at that point, so the creator cleverly built the whole thing out of gun parts! It's oozing with atmosphere." (See above.)

"What excites us most is that we’ve seen this level of creative potential so soon and with a limited number of creators. We’re now ready to grow the creator mindshare inside CORE and hope that New World Notes readers can join us."

Once again, here's the sign-up link that's live for the next 72 hours.

Comments

[Susan Wilson]

Meh, I'll wait until I see what their avatars look like.

[sirhc desantis]

"Proof you're a real human being (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, personal website, etc) * " (from the linked application).

Err, no. I have signed the odd NDA in my time but usually have some idea of wtf the thing is. Sceenshots of undefined origin that ahem 'ooze' don't quite hit the spot.

[vwfan]

Just signed up for this. Thanks, Hamlet. Looking on their site I came across this...

"CORE is poised to unleash a new generation of creators. Instead of working within the confines of a specific game, art style or genre, CORE’s creators will be able to make their own experiences from scratch - whatever they can imagine - at Unreal engine quality (CORE is powered by Unreal)."

So, does that mean one can create uncanny valley avatars if they wanted to if we're not confined to a specific art style?

I then came across another one of their news articles. I'd recommend reading it. You will even see the mention of the Lua scripting system for game logic.

https://www.manticoregames.com/news/core-closed-alpha-launch-announcement

[Gordon]

Ah, another one of those Roblox wannabes.
So far, all I see is marketing talk and sales people. Not sure about the oozing atmosphere, looks pretty 2010 to me but sure. Pass on this one until they show anything worth its salt.