Otherside, the much-anticipated metaverse gaming platform from the creators of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), is open for business. Over the weekend, 4,300 “Voyagers” were invited for a demo and tour of the immersive, ape avatar-navigated online platform. The game details don’t matter – unless you’re a BAYC or Otherside enthusiast – but what does matter is the way Yuga Labs is leveraging a wide variety of Web3 technologies to tell compelling stories.
If you take a step back from the NFTs and crypto, what’s left is the drama of fan engagement, interactivity, copyright fights, status-seeking, pecking orders, questing, and conflict. In other words: great stories told with new tools.
The Yuga Labs journey is an object lesson in the possibilities and potential of Web3 in the hands of master storytellers… and the story continues.
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About Shelly Palmer
Shelly Palmer is the Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and CEO of The Palmer Group, a consulting practice that helps Fortune 500 companies with AI strategy, implementation and governance, as well as technology, media and marketing. Named one of LinkedIn’s Top Voices in Technology, he is a bestselling author, covers tech and business for Fox 5’s Good Day New York, is a regular commentator on CNN, and writes the popular daily business blog Think About This. Follow @shellypalmer or visit shellypalmer.com.