Inkle is known for its highly replayable narrative-focused games such as 80 Days, Heaven’s Vault, and Overboard. "I'm not interested in attention sinks, these are all things which make people turn their brains off, and the point of narrative is to turn your brain on."
"As a narrative person, I'm not interested in compulsion loops," said Inkle co-founder and narrative director Jon Ingold during his Develop Brighton keynote last week. However, what makes a game replayable from a design perspective can often be diametrically opposed to narrative. Games are inherently designed to be replayed, from the 'one more go' mentality of the arcades to the persistent loops of modern live service games. By acquiring the hottest visual effects tools, the company could branch deeper into the metaverse, the catchall term for the 3D environments that sci-fi nerds and Silicon Valley potentates won’t stop talking about.Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox If you’ve ever found yourself watching a 10-second commercial on a free iPhone casino or brain-teaser app, it’s likely Unity served it. But it makes much of its money the way many internet companies do these days: through targeted advertising. “We go from being a player in this space,” he told employees, “potentially to being the leading artist platform for literally everything.”ĭevelopers love Unity for the easy-to-build-on game engine it licenses to third parties such as Niantic Inc., which used it to create the wildly popular app Pokémon Go, and smaller studios that have built hits from Cities: Skylines to Cuphead. The $1.6 billion deal, Riccitiello believed, would give Unity the 3D development tools they needed to conquer all types of augmented and virtual realities, things like immersive digital worlds and hyper-realistic avatars. spilled the news to his staff during a Zoom town hall: The company was about to buy the technology division of WetaFX, the visual effects shop behind the Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones movie and TV franchises. Last November the chief executive officer of Unity Software Inc.
John Riccitiello was on top of the metaverse.
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