Hypersonic Laboratories is a new startup which just got funding to build HELIX, an upcoming multiplayer role-playing sandbox platform for user-generated content (UGC). I got an early peek at what they're building, and the ambition is pretty impressive. As David Chiu, Hypersonic's head of business, put it to me: "Think of it as Garry's Mod meets Grand Theft Auto meets Second Life powered by Unreal Engine 5".
So, yes, intriguing. Also notable that the development team has veterans of major game developers from Roblox/Uplift Games (creators of "Adopt Me") and Activision. This roughly fits my prediction in the book that we'd soon see the rise of Grand Theft Auto-type metaverse platforms.
Dean Takahashi at VentureBeat has the whole story, including:
Hypersonic Laboratories has raised $7 million in funding for a multiplayer role-playing sandbox platform for user-generated content (UGC). The company is building Helix, a platform that will enable “modders,” or creators building game content, to create their own games inside a virtual world...
Helix has already started to pick up some buzz in the RP developer circle, with several prominent RP modders already experimenting with the platform to create incredible worlds and player experiences. The Unreal Engine 5 world of Helix can already support over 1,000 simultaneous players.
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