Kieran Warwick, co-founder of blockchain role-playing recreation Illuvium has lifted the curtain on a gaming idea he says has by no means been achieved earlier than — the interoperable blockchain recreation (IBG).

Talking to Cointelegraph throughout Token2049 in Singapore, Warwick stated Illuvium has three video games presently being constructed which will likely be underpinned by the identical financial system, ruled by a single token (ILV), and linked by the blockchain — making it an interoperable expertise.

“We’re constructing one thing that has by no means been achieved earlier than not within the mainstream and never in Web3.”

IBG, a time period coined by Illuvium, is a sequence of blockchain video games linked to one another, forming an ecosystem of interconnected titles which share NFTs, a typical in-game forex, or each.

Warwick says Illuvium is a “enjoyable recreation” initially, with participant enjoyment as a cornerstone, relatively than play to earn (P2E) andnon-fungible token (NFT) features that some titles within the GameFi area have tended to give attention to.

He hopes the shift in focus might be the important thing to attracting gamers from the mainstream video games market.

“In our genres that we’re hitting, there may be roughly 500 million those who we are able to usher in that actually will not know that they are taking part in a crypto recreation.”

The primary recreation is a metropolis builder, one which Warwick says is a “mixture of Sim Metropolis and Conflict of Clans” the place gamers can construct and mine assets to be used within the second recreation, “Overworld.”

Overworld focuses on exploring and capturing creatures referred to as “Illuvials”, which Warwick compares to Pokemon, that may then be battled within the third recreation, which will likely be much like on-line battle enviornment titles similar to “Teamfight Techniques or DOTA.”

Warwick says they won’t cease at three video games although, including in some unspecified time in the future they wish to “construct one other six video games on high.”

“Think about taking a type of belongings after which going over to the racetrack and taking part in a Mario Kart recreation, however you are not shopping for a brand new Nintendo recreation, it is only one asset that is usable throughout a complete universe of video games.”

At this stage, Illuvium nonetheless doesn’t have a proper launch date however Warwick hopes to have a working beta within the subsequent two or three months, with plans to publish on cellular, PC, and Mac.

“I reckon in all probability someday actually early subsequent yr is once we’ll have open beta with yields and all of the features that we’d like, however not totally polished.”

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Illuvium is ruled by the Illuvium DAO, a decentralized autonomous group. Warwick stated they initially had been going to boost $350 million in funding throughout the bull market, however the ongoing crypto winter has seen them reduce to between $10 and $20 million.

Warwick additionally revealed he made the Australian Monetary Assessment’s Younger Wealthy Listing once more this yr — however the market situations imply the billion {dollars} he was price final yr are a distant reminiscence.

Warwick jokingly famous that this was not a priority as his important motivation is just to be richer than his brother, Kain Warwick, the founding father of Synthetix, who additionally made the Australian Monetary Assessment’s Younger Wealthy Listing in 2022.