LAMINA1 and Crucible Launch Pathfinders: Open Metaverse Discovery Month

Crucible and LAMINA1 are launching Pathfinders, a month-long program that will empower builders and creators to begin exploring new open metaverse experiences, coinciding with the integration of Crucible’s Emergence SDK toolkit into the LAMINA1 blockchain.

Starting October 1st, the program will include joint quests and bounties, hands-on workshops for game developers, and sponsored competitions for community creators – with a chance to launch Spaces (playable experiences) on the LAMINA1 Hub, as well as digital assets to be used across many open metaverse games & experiences.

To participate in Pathfinders: Open Metaverse Discovery Month and stay updated on its upcoming competition, quest, and bounty initiatives, join the LAMINA1 and Open Meta Discords at https://discord.gg/lamina1& discord.gg/OpenMeta

The program marks the official integration of the Emergence SDK as the preferred SDK for LAMINA1. Using Crucible’s Emergence SDK with LAMINA1, game developers can now seamlessly connect experiences built on Unity and Unreal engines to enable features like VRM avatars, on-chain assets, and blockchain interactions, and begin testing them with its community of over 50,000 open metaverse builders.

In celebration of the new integration, Pathfinders Discovery Month will include:

Hands-on workshops that will let developers easily link their experiences to the LAMINA1 blockchain using the popular Unreal and Unity game engines
Joint bounties and quests for participating in AMAs, Creator Competitions, campaign amplification, and beyond that invite community members to earn rewards for participating in Pathfinders initiatives across the Open Meta and LAMINA1 ecosystems
The launch of 2 co-sponsored Creator Competitions offering developers and players a chance to begin exploring the open metaverse and have their art/experiences featured in upcoming experience launches on LAMINA1.

The first set of workshops from Open Meta and LAMINA1 will be hosted on Wednesday, October 25 (Unity) and Thursday October 26 (Unreal) on the Open Meta Discord at 4:00pm UTC. A sign-up form for the workshops with additional details for interested developers can be found here

Image: Emergence is now integrated with the Lamina1 blockchain for both Unreal and Unity.

On the tooling side of things, Emergence provides easy plug-and-play Web3 functionality so game developers can focus on creating great experiences. With integration complete, the tools are now matched with LAMINA1’s purpose-built infrastructure optimised for an open, creator-driven metaverse.

Says Ryan Gill, Founder of Crucible, “LAMINA1 has been a leader in establishing a vision for an Open Metaverse that’s open and inclusive. We’ve been hard at work building the infrastructure to make it easy for game developers to easily create web3 experiences. Now, it’s time for our communities to begin experimenting and prototyping the future.”

Aleissia Laidacker, Head of Product and Technology of Crucible, adds, “Our singular focus with Emergence is to make it easy to tap into the utility of blockchains such as LAMINA1. Now that our integration is complete, we’re excited to see what game developers create using this full suite of tools.”
Gordon Mattey, Chief Product Officer of LAMINA1 says: “Crucible and LAMINA1 are leaders in their fields when it comes to developing the tools and infrastructure for the Open Metaverse: Emergence is a toolkit for game developers that lets them easily integrate Web3 features, including VRM avatars, on-chain inventory, and read/write to the L1 blockchain, while LAMINA1 is building the core infrastructure to allow for an equitable and open metaverse that empowers communities, developers, and creators.”

About LAMINA1

LAMINA1 is a blockchain optimised for the open metaverse — providing builders and creators a flexible framework for a better online future. The organisation was founded in June 2022 by renowned author and futurist Neal Stephenson, who originated the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash, and crypto pioneer Peter Vessenes, digital currency expert and founder of the first venture-backed Bitcoin company.

Its mission is to provide the infrastructure, API and tools necessary to empower a dynamic global community of open metaverse creators, championing the development of a robust, efficient and interoperable ecosystem that gives creators and consumers more agency and ownership in the next online era.

About Crucible

Crucible was founded in 2018 with the goal of creating the tools, marketplaces and interfaces to facilitate an Open Metaverse. The company developed Emergence with the Open Meta Association, and has since released it for Unreal and Unity.

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