The Magic Media team has the pleasure of collaborating with Everreach Labs on an upcoming first-person shooter project titled REVENGE. This Web3 project is an ambitious shooter game currently in production with Magic Media providing several high-quality services.
As our work on the project continues, we wanted to provide some insight into the project itself, our collaboration with Everreach Labs, and the services we’re providing including game development, quality assurance, and services in numerous other areas of expertize. We’re excited at how REVENGE is currently coming together and for the opportunity to share more information about the project as it becomes available.
What is REVENGE?
REVENGE is an extraction-based first-person shooter title Magic Media is collaborating on with Everreach Labs. It uses a cyberpunk visual style and emphasizes spectator interactions and their ability to affect the gameplay. Through streaming and blockchain integrations, players will be able to directly affect matches with a variety of actions, making it a unique first-person shooter experience with nothing else quite like it currently on the market.
Magic Media’s Team Composition and Services
Magic Media was brought on board in March 2024 to provide our services. Currently, REVENGE is in a pre-alpha stage and we’re excited to continue working on the project with Everreach Labs as we work towards its completion. At the project’s inception, the Magic Media team consisted of 20 people fulfilling game development, production, quality assurance, game VFX, 3D art roles, and many more. As with all of our projects, we have a multitude of talented team members across countless disciplines so we can configure our teams in the best possible way for every project.
Other than working on the game development side of things, we’re also working with Everreach Labs to create a web-based dashboard, cosmetics store, and marketing materials, including an exciting trailer that was recently released giving players insight into the game’s unique visual style, gameplay, and tongue-in-cheek sense of humor.
After an initial couple of months working on the project with Everreach Labs, we were given the opportunity to scale up our team to a peak of 33 people to continue our game development services among others on a larger scale.
REVENGE’s Key Features
REVENGE boasts several distinct features that help it stand out from other first-person shooters on the market. Viewers of REVENGE on Twitch streams can fill the role of Oracles, spectators who can influence game sessions. At the most basic level, Oracles can cheer on players, but they can also directly influence gameplay by using Game Changers, powerful in-game abilities.
Game Changers are activated by players in-game and empowered by Oracles on-stream. These actions can be combat-oriented such as dropping health packs or reviving a fallen player, to more strategic choices such as changing the level terrain and triggering special events. The Oracle role helps transform a passive viewing experience into something more engaging.
We plan to include player customization using NFTs purchased with $EVER, Everreach Labs’ bespoke cryptocurrency. Between the unique spectator functionality and player customization, we’re confident that players will view REVENGE as a distinct and engaging first-person shooter experience.
Game Development Process and Collaboration
Throughout game development, there have naturally been some challenges that we’ve been able to handily overcome. As with any remote team-based project, there can be some challenges due to different timezones and people’s active hours, especially on projects like this that require frequent collaboration between key stakeholders and partners who are in different parts of the world.
Fortunately, as with any of our game development projects or projects requiring anything from our range of services, establishing clear communication pipelines helped us mitigate these issues. We ensured that our communication channels were open, relevant parties had regular check-ins, and that all goals and dependencies were crystal clear. Magic Media and Everreach Labs have been acting as one integrated team for this project. We’re pleased with how well the Magic Media team and Everreach Labs have seamlessly integrated for this project, with communication flowing fluidly as we work as part of one larger team effort.
As far as our game development work itself is concerned, we’ve made swift progress in creating prototypes, fully playable game sections, and set dressing in a matter of months. The efficiency of our work can be attributed to not just our ability and experience, but Everreach Labs also being incredibly supportive and encouraging of free-flowing discussions around game ideas that have enabled us to make decisions quickly – we’re encouraged to speak openly and honestly. Everreach Labs has the final say regarding the product, but we’re treated as a valuable partner in that our input is greatly valued. There’s an abundance of extremely talented and hard-working people working on this project from both our side and Everreach Labs, and it has been nothing short of satisfying seeing this collaboration blossom.
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