March 24' Info from Hilmar

New account because I got stealth banned for posting links. Reddit algorithm at its best.

Anyway, below are some nuggets from a decrypt.co article following the March phase III test.

Collaborate or perish

Announced in March 2023 alongside a $40 million funding round led by VC giant Andreessen Horowitz, Project Awakening is CCP’s first blockchain game built in the Eve Online universe. It’s not attempting to replicate Eve Online’s well-established approach, Pétursson explained, nor is it meant to replace the enduring online simulation.

Project Awakening won’t be an epic-scale massively multiplayer online (MMO) game. Instead, it will be a more focused, survival-centric experience that fully embraces the crypto ethos of decentralized development. CCP will develop and “really, really polish the hell” out of the core game, Pétursson said. The community can handle much of the rest.

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So Project Awakening won’t just be Eve Online with crypto tokens stapled onto it. But while the game has been through two playtest sessions already, with another ahead, we haven’t seen the game in action—and participants have been bound by non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).

Pétursson confirmed that Project Awakening will be a “new, modern spaceship experience” built on the team’s 20 years of development on Eve, albeit with “cool, newfangled” tools created in collaboration with Lattice. The startup powers Ethereum-based, on-chain games using the Optimism scaling network’s OP tech stack, and CCP is using Lattice’s MUD framework.