[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.]
Paris, France, August 11, 2017 — Independent
game developer Novaquark announced today they have received $3.7
million in funding from private investors to bring their flagship
MMO title, Dual Universe, to a total funding amount of $7.4
million, including crowdfunding. This news comes as the company is
preparing to launch their Alpha version; currently expected by the
end of Q4 2017.
"Last year, Dual Universe
became the third highest funded video game on Kickstarter,
collecting more than $670K from over 8,000 backers,”
explained JC Baillie, CEO at Novaquark.
"With this new round of funding, we have reached a new level of
support that will help the project reach its full
potential”.
Dual Universe is a new type of massively-multiplayer online
experience: it takes place in a vast Sci-Fi universe, focusing on
emergent gameplay and content building, with player-driven in-game
economy, politics, trade and warfare. The vision for Dual Universe
is to create the first virtual online civilization.
At the heart of Dual Universe is a truly innovative proprietary
technology, which was developed to lay the foundations of the game.
The CSSC (continuous single-shard cluster) manages one single
universe with potentially millions of people interacting in it at
the same time. A multi-scale voxel engine enables players to
physically modify the world; dig a hole, carve up a mountain or
build anything they want, from space ships to orbital stations, at
any scale they desire.
Novaquark is building a virtual world environment where they
hope millions of people will be able to live exciting collective
adventures within a vibrant and emergent universe where everything
is possible. The company aims at creating a new form of
entertainment, where participants are free to create their own
stories and environment.
“Our ambition is to become the number one platform for
user-generated entertainment, all happening in the same universe,
to create an ecosystemic amplification mechanism similar to that of
social networks” notes JC Baillie, CEO at
Novaquark.”
About Novaquark
Novaquark is a Paris-based game studio formed in 2014 by
veterans from Ubisoft, Sony, Apple, Gameloft, with a mission to
renew the MMO genre through technological innovation. Dual
Universe, their flagship title, fosters massively emergent gameplay
in a huge continuous single-shard virtual world. The studio is
currently hiring experienced and motivated candidates in technical
and business positions.
Check out the latest news
Game site:
https://www.dualthegame.com
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/dualuniverse
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/dualuniverse
Devblog:
https://devblog.dualthegame.com
Community:
https://community.dualthegame.com
Forum:
https://board.dualthegame.com
Music:
https://soundcloud.com/dualuniverse
Media contact : HomeRun PR – Damien Sarrazin –
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