Star Ferry history comes alive in South China Morning Post metaverse experience on The Sandbox

The South China Morning Post has launched a metaverse experience on blockchain gaming platform The Sandbox
Players can move around the game, which features a backdrop of Hong Kong’s skyline, and interact with game characters to understand the city’s history
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The South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong paper with 118 years of history, has sent off a metaverse experience on blockchain gaming stage The Sandbox, offering a vivid, gamified visit through the city’s notable Star Ferry Pier.

The Post’s metaverse experience, Hong Kong Star Ferry Pier, is among in excess of 35 that The Sandbox is presenting with a new season that will go during that time of March, and is available to people in general free of charge.

The game depends on a broad visual library of grant winning photography, visual outlines, information, infographics and related reporting that the paper claims, covering over 100 years of Hong Kong and central area Chinese history.

The game is based on an extensive visual library

The metaverse is a computerized existence where true ideas of significant worth and shortage can probably exist. SCMP’s 118 years of detailing and broad library of photos offered us the chance to inhale new life into authentic areas in the metaverse, said Gary Liu, CEO of South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd.

This fills in as an extension to interface with another age of perusers and advanced locals and we anticipate working intimately with our accomplices to keep serving our crowd.

The Star Ferry, one of Hong Kong’s most seasoned types of transport, started tasks in 1888. The experience, worked in a joint effort with neighborhood metaverse studio Index Game, will include a virtual gateway that transports players between the current day and minutes previously, where they can gain proficiency with the ship dock’s set of experiences and remember a portion of the city’s most notorious minutes and occasions.

Players can move around the game, which includes a scenery of Hong Kong’s monumental horizon, and collaborate with game characters to comprehend the city’s set of experiences, incorporating chatting with the Star Ferry’s longest-serving worker to figure out how Victoria Harbor has changed throughout the long term.

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Players can move around the game and complete a variety of quests, or embark on a virtual ride on the ferry

They can likewise finish an assortment of missions, or leave on a virtual ride on the ship to investigate its famous twofold finished plan.

As a feature of the Post’s continuous endeavors to keep steady over the most recent innovation drifts, the organization has likewise wandered into non-fungible tokens (NFTs) – information added to a blockchain that demonstrates an advanced thing’s uniqueness and proprietorship.

NFTs let individuals own and exchange computerized resources, and are viewed as a driver of things to come from the metaverse economy.

In July, the Post sent off ARTIFACT, a blockchain metadata standard for verifiable and authentic NFTs. On March 14, the paper will likewise deliver its first assortment of recorded NFTs under the title of ARTIFACT by SCMP.

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