ULTIMATE THREAD: BAYC OTHERSIDE 🧵 I analyzed every tweet + source I could find and listened to the 4 most recent Twitter Spaces from Garga and Figge Years in the making and it launches this month 👀 Built on ApeChain and Powered by ApeCoin Here's ALL THE ALPHA you... missed 👇show more

VISION & PHILOSOPHY @OthersideMeta aims to build a platform that enables creators to push boundaries, even without the core team's constant involvement, drawing inspiration from game modding history (e.g., Counter-Strike from Half-Life and Roblox) Accessibility: The platform strives to be accessible, hiding the complexities of blockchain from Web2 players who may not realize they are playing a Web3 game

MONETIZATION & OWNERSHIP In-game items can be NFTs or Fungible Tokens such as ERC20s, 721s, 1155s and others that users can collect. Imagine running around like Sonic collecting memecoins or NFTs that go straight to your wallet Monetization Opportunities: The platform aims to expose more surface area for people to monetize and get creative with tokens. This includes: - Token-gating experiences - Allow listing for mints - Airdropping or claiming tokens from within 3D Worlds - Monetizing wearables, stickers, emotes, and graffiti stickers NFT Community Integration: The team is open to existing NFT communities meeting, gathering, and monetizing on Otherside. Uploading their 3D avatars and 3D models permisionlessly without having to ask the @yugalabs Team. The specs will be shared more broadly in the near future

XP / GAMES / EXPERIENCES Diverse Game Offerings: Garga envisions Otherside having a "Netflix-style scrolling menu" with any number of incredible 3D experiences, not just one or two as creators can submit their own games XP System: An XP system will launch around the time of Bathroom Blitz, with retroactive rewards for past participants. This system aims to support and reward users who return, playtest, engage, and create for the ODK Bathroom Blitz (July): An 8v8 deathmatch shooter game set in the BAYC bathroom, described as wacky with grappling hooks, developed with community member @CryptoVonDoom and @cmnd_line Otherside Outbreak (August): A zombie infection game where one player has the plague and infects others, developed with Prismatic

KODAS, LORE & WORLD BUILDING Nexus: This is the ancestral home of the Kodas and the main city of Otherside, this is where their story will be unpacked and special spots will be tokengated to Kodas only and other areas for Mega Kodas only Kodas: They are central to the lore, serving as guides and bringing this epic war with them Overarching Story: The main narrative of Otherside is the battle between "creation" (represented by blue soma magic) and "chaos energy" (red, making people crazy, leading to conflicts like "Project Dragon")

CREATOR TOOLS & DEVELOPMENT (ODK) Otherside Development Kit (ODK): Yuga Labs provides tools for builders to create their own game modes, likened to a Web3 Roblox Web3 Dev Simplicity: A standard contract is being developed in-game by @imjameshall & @0xQuit, allowing anyone to launch ERC20s, 1155s, 721s (and more) without needing Web3 development experience or coding knowledge Target Users: The ODK caters to groups ranging from amateur to professional developers with Unreal Engine familiarity Assets Provided: The ODK provides a thousand 3D assets across all 29 biomes as "Lego pieces" for devs to build with

AI & BUILDER TOOLS "Barbell Level" Approach: Otherside is adopting a dual approach for accessibility: Amateur/Pro: AI tools aim to "demystify" Unreal Engine, enabling users to interact with the interface and build using natural language prompts Entry-Level/Casual: For casual users, the goal is in-game building directly on their Otherdeed, similar to drag and drop decorating a house in Animal Crossing. This includes creating sticker packs or wearables AI's Long-Term Vision: While immediate "vibe-coding" of an entire experience isn't available, future AI advancements might allow users to type prompts to create environments for social gatherings e.g., “bubbles”. There's also potential for AI to enhance NPCs and quest lines for atmosphere while maintaining game loops

ON-BOARDING FROM WEB2 Streamlined User Experience: User experience is simplified via Yuga ID and "Glyph": which provides a self-custodial wallet generated by @privy_io just by signing up with either email, Google account, Twitter or Apple ID With Glyph, users can use Apple Pay and debit cards to buy @apecoin for microtransactions Users can interact with tokens without needing to understand blockchain complexity, though they can check on ApeScan on @ApeChainHUB or a block explorer if desired

BUBBLES: LIKE TWITTER SPACES BUT BETTER Bubbles & Deep Links: Bubbles is like Twitter Spaces but with 3D Avatars. Launch a Bubble up to 500 people together simultaneously. Drop a link on any social platform for anyone to easily and instantly join the conversation or listen in through web browser Live Streaming: Stream Bubbles or any experience in Otherside to your social platform of choice using a universal stream key. Yes, you read that right. Stream to anywhere with no limits We'll get our first on-going taste of Bubbles as the official @BoredApeYC "Meet at The Clubhouse" Spaces will be broadcast weekly from Bubbles starting in July.

NEW AVATAR SYSTEM & MOBILE Avatar System: A new Voyager 2.0 avatar system is being developed, designed for composability and a wearable system. This allows for endless reskinning and enables different NFT communities to create and monetize digital apparel, stickers, and emotes, with creator royalty enforcement Cloud Streaming: Users can play Otherside without a powerful gaming PC from a web browser, as the game is rendered on a cloud computer and streamed. This enables quick onboarding even from a less powerful PC or phone. Alternatively, you can download Otherside for superior graphics Platform Focus: Near-term focus is on PC and Mac, with significant optimization for Mac users, with mobile in the plans, but coming at a later date 2026 the goal is to onboard hundreds of thousands of people into the platform. 2025 is the final testing before major scaling

2026: EXTRACTING RESOURCES & IN-GAME ECONOMY If the goal is to make all in-game items on-chain then it may be safe to assume that resources will be on-chain as tokens of some sort. "There's a preview of an ore extractor at the end of the video, if anyone caught that" - Garga "Being able to extract resources from your Otherdeed and to be able to use those resources in the gameplay" - Garga "Resources is a very big system because that's a whole economy and that's something that we want to be very exacting about when those details are gone over. There's many variables at play, right? There's the resources that exist and basically concatenate to Anima, Ore, Root and Shard which have different purposes and then there's different tiers of those resources and those resources have to get consumed in a certain way. This is really a dynamic game that's kind of being played by tens of thousands of people and there's certain assumptions that you have to work through in detail. We have a pretty rich point of view on this already but we have to also be quite careful in the roll out of that. That's why we're doing the Otherdeeds first and then the resources on that Otherdeed second because it really needs their own focal point to make sure that we're very buttoned up with it. There's certain considerations where Kodas used to be on Otherdeeds, right? Then you could separate your Kodas from an Otherdeed. I think there's been speculation around "Oh, are there other things that you can do around that?" You have to ask yourself what does that do to the rest of the system if artifacts could move around for instance? There may not be a benefit to that. It may actually make it more complicated to be able to do that separation. I don't want to distinguish one way or another, publicly right now in a way that could affect the collecting that's going on. on. Suffice it to say there's deep thought about the systems and the sinks and the faucets about this world because we know it's important. I can say that as somebody who bought many Otherdeeds myself, I want to make sure we get this right." - Figge

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