Worldwide Webb is a social 2D browser-based Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG), themed on Web3 and pop-culture, and founded by contemporary artist, hacker, game developer and magician Thomas Webb.
This month’s Special Topic is a tribute to Worldwide Webb, and the multiple tools the project develops to offer you, the player…in a world where you can truly belong.
Worldwide Webb is currently in building, constantly adding features and quests, lore and content, and hoping to become one of the main virtual worlds that will “make it” through the bear market, to mass adoption.
But what makes a virtual world last?
What’s one key deciding factor?
In a word: community.
Check out World of Warcraft’s guilds, and their almost military management. Dive into the subcultures of Second Life and the freedom they relish, emancipated from mainstream judgment or social norms. Go hang with students chatting in Fortnite’s lobby, chilling out after school as if it was the local skatepark.
While many may lament over the lack of social interactions in our digital world, many others exploit the freedoms offered by digital tech to build new connections and reach those they cannot in “real life”, create new spaces for and modes of communication, and participate in more meaningful events and conversations.
Because we crave contact.
We need to communicate.
More than that: we need to be recognized for who we are.
And this is exactly what Worldwide Webb offers in multiple, meaningful ways: a place to be yourself, and be recognized in social groups.
Express yourself!
Hey, do you know Mark ?
Oh, you mean that big, brown dude with a big mop of hair on his head?
Yep, that funny bro. I think he works on the third floor.
Yeah! Funny guy, right ?
These few lines won’t award their author a Nobel Prize in Literature.
It’s an everyday conversation.
This is how we commonly describe each other. How we look, what we do, how we usually interact with others. They are all elements that define who we are.
And Worldwide Webb offers you as a player the chance to define your identity by way of all these elements.
How you look: choose your hero!
When we consider a virtual world, or the Metaverse, as a concept, for many it represents a place where we can login, look exactly as we want to, as we feel we are, or feel we want to be.
And Worldwide Webb, drawing deeply from the (in-building) Web3 culture, determined to open a new pathway on this crucial question of avatars. And so, Worldwide Webb allows you to choose your own Avatar from external NFT collections that you own… and appear just like it in-game!
Our previous article on BYOPills presented one way to build interoperability: by creating NFTs that can be used inside of other virtual worlds.
This time, it’s the other way round: in Worldwide Webb, NFTs from other projects can be integrated into the metaverse, which is fast turning it into a leading pioneer in interoperability.
Connect your wallet, and the game engine immediately scans it for compatible NFT projects. Upon finding them, it loads them directly into the avatar inventory inside the game menu. PFP avatars are then overlaid over your in-game Avatar, with the possibility to change your look from any of your NFTs to another anytime you want.
The list of integrated projects is expanding fast — each week the team is adding new projects and integrating new collections.
The team even released an integration tool to allow projects to view their avatars in-game before submitting for integration. Which could lead, one day in the future, to a free-to-use tool that helps you turn any NFT into an avatar?
This NFT-to-avatar system can bother some players — appearing as your favorite NFT can be awesome, but it also means that you have to have the money to buy the NFT that gives you the look you want. And NFT collections don’t come cheap.
But in the fast-growing ecosystem of NFT projects and the Metaverse, this capacity to appear as your treasured NFT has caught the eye of many.
That being said, it’s not the only one worth mentioning — far from it.
Build something — to show who you are
In Worldwide Webb, your Apartment is entirely yours to design. With an expanding catalog of features and furniture, you’ll be able to express… who you truly feel you are, or want to be, to anyone that comes through the door.
A fortune-hunter with a store of rare treasures?
A skilled interior designer?
A talented architect able to design fun, intriguing layouts, or a real labyrinth?
Whoever you want to be, and be recognised for, you can work for it!
But wait, you tell me, isn’t this just like in any other virtual world?
Let’s go a bit deeper, my impatient friend.
For in the Apartments of Worldwide Webb, interior design and architecture are not the only ways in which to reveal something of yourself to the World. You can also use it as a way to design and let people experience your own story, or stories!
We love making quests that are topical about what’s happening in the world”— Thomas Webb
If you had to tell a story, huddled by the campfire, beneath the beautiful depths of a dark blue sky, out in the wilds of nature…
What story would you tell?
A sad one? Funny one? A joke? Or a profound and mysterious tale?
One thing is for certain — you won’t tell the same story that I will.
Because we all have our own story to tell…and our own way of telling it. Of sharing what’s going on deep inside of us.
And in Worldwide Webb, you are able to tell your story.
Your Apartment will integrate a “quest creator”.
You wanna be seen as someone humorous, captivating, or knowledgeable on a particular subject?
Tell the story you want to tell…in the form of an event, minigame or quest…and attract those who will appreciate what you think, and offer the World.
Create new and innovative ways for people to remember you, talk to and about you, through the stories you tell.
It’s dangerous to go alone: Find your communities!
We do not belong to simply one community.
Our social identity grants us inclusion in many communities — it could be that of your town, your age, economic class, ethnicity, religion, political views, hobbies, and the list goes on… All these labels lump you into a bunch of different communities.
But so many of these are imposed on you by others; they are disconnected from the real you, or who you feel you are or wanna be.
The Metaverse thus offers you a way to liberate yourself from all those labels imposed on you by others, and create your own identity.
Label yourself! Build yourself! And connect with meaningful communities who can relate…
By meeting other collectors of Your Avatar’s collection
Imagine you’re in-game. Wandering in this 2D reference-packed metaverse, jumping from one mini-game to another, leveling up your Avatar. And then you meet…a cool cat!
Yep, another player, appearing as a “cool cat”, from the Cool Cat NFT project! Awesome — you have a “Cool Cat” too!
So off you go — select your Cool Cat Avatar from your inventory, and start interacting.
Chat with him or her, inquire where this Cool Cat is off to, and perhaps meet some other friends along the way…also sharing your love of course for this Cool Cat NFT project.
This avatar feature helps you recognise others from your NFT community, just as a profile picture would on Twitter or Discord.
Move your pixelated body — to meet others!
Worldwide Webb, when it’s open (the world is currently in Alpha Opening for its special Halloweeb event) is a place where many parties are happening.
Community themed or not, with partner projects or simply hosted by any player who wants to get down and party hard in the Metaverse… there’ll always be a party going down to suit your style, whether that be one of the ‘lit’ events inside of the popular Teshimi club, or anywhere else a player decides to hold one.
If you’re not confident enough in your dance moves to meet people in your “real life” local nightclub…this can be a great solution! Grab a virtual drink and meet other avatars, no strings attached!
This is not an advertisement for a one-night stand, but… go get your ass on the dancefloor! This Kongz will show you what you can do with your pixelated body.
Be “that cool one”: throw parties and hangouts, and contribute to the community
Your Apartment is a place to express your creativity and imagination. However it’s also a place to create bonds with new people.
Gather your friends and existing community to hang out or party…or decide to host a public performance or concert, political meeting, or any event you wish.
Easy peasy, right?
By enabling events in your own Apartment, the team at WorldwideWebb enables you to create points of interest for like-minded folks…or even very different ones.
You’ll meet new people, form new and special bonds…whatever your passion happens to be.
Since you can lock the doors to your Apartment with a code, you can also provide unique content for the few special friends you’ve selected. This ranges from allowing them to view your NFT collection, to accessing your secret rave, or using your rare and precious crafting table and recipes to forge new in-game items.
Find comrades in war: soon-to-be PvP, and guilds!
There are many battles you’ll have to win on your own in this game. But you don’t always need to fight alone — in Worldwide Webb, you can have a Pet!
And not just any Pet.
You can, just as you can with your Avatar, make any external NFT collection you own appear as your Pet/s.
The official Roadmap foreshadows the idea of building a system to train those pets and then… launch them against others in a PvP environment.
Will you decide to become the ultimate Pet master? Or catch them all? Even launch one of your very own guilds — forecast in the Roadmap for Q4 2022! How about roaming through the world(wide-web3), crushing enemies and slaying monsters, as you prevail in one battle to the next? Will you create a League with some of your friends to test young trainers?
The choice is yours! But witnessing the growing popularity of raising and battling with Pets, this feature may very well draw the attention of many players World-wide, and allow them to carve their very own trainer legend in the ever growing metaverse of Worldwide Webb.
Conclusion
Worldwide Webb has made some drastic choices — 2D graphics, browser-based, and, to quote the founder Thomas Webb , “Built around memes, culture and news”.
It’s clearly not a project that will speak to everyone.
But it will deeply connect with many.
And for those who are attracted to this virtual world, they’ll want to own their Apartment, look like their favorite NFTs, to gather friends, meet like-minded others, trade in-game NFTs to power-up or build fantastic monuments or venues, share their stories, or utilize the (in-building) possibility to mint NFTs in-game…
Thomas Webb, in a Twitter Space held just last week, announced a backend solution that will enable them to connect any blockchain to the game, “so it’s entirely cross-chain.” This would allow them to not only integrate avatars from any L1 or L2 (Solana, Immutable X, BSC, Cardano, Avalanche, Polygon…), but also launch and issue NFTs on-chain.
At oneland.world and virtualrealestate.tech, we believe this could very well unleash a novel and unprecedented experience in Web3!
But for now, with a bear market in full swing, and prices low, will there ever be a better time to buy an Apartment?
With a current floor price of 0.375 ETH for a small Apartment (and 0.472 for a Medium, 1.7 for a Large, or 29 for that prized Penthouse) (11.7.2022, 13:21 UTC), you will definitely find something that is right for you. So enter now into the Marketplace and check out the Apartments awaiting you, connect your private wallet, and settle in…
Then express yourself!
And take your pride of place in the many communities soon to be discovered in-world.
The unique choices made by the team, and the many opportunities its players have to interact, build, meet and create bonds in-game should allow this powerful metaverse to grow a strong and dedicated community from all over the world.
So… long live this fantastical, futuristic, retro, mega-fun and interoperable World!
Or whatever it is 🙃
This article was written in partnership with virtualrealestate.tech, creator of the Virtual Real Estate Comparator for the Metaverse: https://virtualrealestate.tech
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