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Portalarium®, an Austin-based game developer and makers of the highly-anticipated fantasy role-playing game, Shroud of the Avatar™ (Shroud), have announced a partnership with Neverdie Studios to support the company’s Initial Coin Offering(ICO). Neverdie Studios produces games, live action movies, records and virtual products. Their ICO is a blockchain-based project aiming to create an Ethereum-based gaming platform. Shroud of the Avatar is the first game outside the Neverdie product lineup exploring how to utilize NDC. The two companies also announced today that Garriott would become an advisor to Neverdie Studios.
Jon “Neverdie” Jacobs, Neverdie Studios founder said, “This is a historic accord between two iconic avatars aligning to champion avatar rights. With the wise council of Richard “Lord British” Garriott, a legendary avatar, adventurer and world builder providing priceless insight into the development of the gamified virtual reality infrastructure to unite MMORPGS and virtual worlds, I’m confident that our noble ambitions will remain virtuous and have the greatest chance to succeed. Richard’s council on the structure and balance of universal gaming tokens will be invaluable.”
“We are devout believers that people living in and contributing to our virtual worlds can and should earn real world value for the time and value they bring to our world,” said Garriott, Portalarium’s CEO and Shroud’s creative director. “Having direct access to a publicly tradeable currency is a great way to provide this. I’m also extremely pleased to be invited to advise Neverdie on this exciting and ambitious project. Additionally, Shroud of the Avatar already has a deeply committed player base while in early access. We are exploring how our players can earn market based value with NEVERDIE NDC and TPT tokens that are both useable directly in the game as well as traded on the open market.
Shroud of the Avatar combines a single-player narrative story with a sandbox massively multiplayer online (MMO) experience. The game is the second highest fully crowdfunded game ever and currently stands at more than $11.8 million raised.
The Shroud production team includes Executive Producer Starr Long, who along with Garriott helped produce the groundbreaking Ultima Online MMO and New York Times bestselling author Tracy Hickman, who wrote the popular Dragonlance fantasy novels.
Shroud of the Avatar is currently in early access but is targeting a commercial release in late 2017.
Richard Garriott is a true legend in video game design and all RPG games owe him a great debt for his work on the genre. Hopefully this game will be amazing and see Garriot have another gaming triumph.
Source: PR Email