Hello, Satoshi clubbers Another AMA took place in Satoshi Club and we would like to introduce to you the AMA session with our friends from metaEngine and our guest was . The AMA took place on the 16th of June.
The AMA session was divided into 3 parts with a total crypto reward pool of $500
In this AMA Recap, we will try to summarise the most interesting points for you.
Part 1 — introduction and questions from the Telegram&WebSite
Pavel P
Hello everyone and welcome to our AMA Session with metaEngine
Let’s meet and greet our guest @alexshalash
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
Hello @alexshalash welcome to Satoshi club
Alex Shalash
Thank you having me!
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
We are glad to have you here
How are you doing today?
Alex Shalash
Really excited to join you guys for this session
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
Great, so let’s start our AMA
Pavel P
So as we are!
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
We will start with an introduction
Can you please introduce yourself to us, your role in metaEngine and how you got into crypto?
Alex Shalash
Hi, my name is Alex Shalash – the co-founder and CEO of the metaEngine.
Got into crypto originally after watching Max Keiser show some 10 years ago, but was more passive until last year, when we launched metaEngine
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
For how long have you been building metaEngine?
Alex Shalash
We saw so many new GameFi / Metaverse projects coming to the market.
metaEngine is a new “fork” of HeroEngine platform that i have been involved in since 2009
metaEngine is integrating lots of the underlying MMO tech with blockchain
so, we have been building the game infra since 2001, with blockchain – since Oct 2021
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
Impressive 2009 to 2021 is about 12 years
Pavel P
What a great experience!
Alex Shalash
thx
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
Awesome
How many people do you have working on this project?
Alex Shalash
The team growing as we speak, at present we are 25
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
Are they all in same region?
Alex Shalash
That’s game engine engineers, blockchain engineers, game devs, etc.
we are spread around the world, waking up in Singapore, India, Ukraine, Switzerland, France, UK and USA
same as our developers we work in the cloud
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
Impressive spread
Pavel P
Impressive! Great team to build the best product!
Alex Shalash
we are doing our best
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
So Alex, what is metaEngine really all about?
Alex Shalash
metaEngine is a fully integrated metaverse development and publishing platform. With its own game engine, networking, servers, blockchain integration and publishing – end-to-end solution. If you are building or planning to build a metaverse-like game / open world – metaEngine is the only choice on the market today.
In addition, our underlying technology supports massive multiplayer online capabilities out of the box, this means millions of players can access your games without the need to develop and integrate networking and server technologies by yourself.
Pavel P
So, we can consider it as a Metaverse HUB for games
Alex Shalash
mainly for development at first, publishing later
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
I see that there are quite a lot of exciting things to dig out about metaEngine
Alex Shalash
let’s do it
Pavel P
I see. Indeed, it can some difficulties the game owners have at early stages
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
We will proceed to our community questions then
Pavel P
Let’s go
Pavel P
Q1 from Telegram user @MudaraSilva
You have promised to level up the gaming experience with the most advanced game engine in the world. As a gamer on plenty of platforms, I am interested to know how does metaENGINE change the gaming experience. What is the technology behind metaENGINE? What kind of changes can we experience? The introductory phrase also says you are the “Future of GameFi”. Can you elaborate more on this statement? How do you contribute to the future of GameFi with advanced technologies? Have you done any research on existing GameFi platforms and did you identify any drawbacks of them? If yes, please explain what are your solutions to fix them.
Alex Shalash
tech choices will determine the types of game one builds
Great and a very long question
Owing to its fully-integrated nature, metaEngine is capable of delivering MMO scalability out of the box. The core tech behind metaEngine is HeroEngine – MMO game dev platform used in games like SWOTR and TESO. metaEngine expands that functionality to include blockchain features and asset interoperability.
metaEngine brings to GameFi MMO scalability, planet-scale environments and real time development. Our mission is to remove obstacles in game development, decrease technology integration risks, and let devs focus on entertainment.
Current platforms are limited in scale, and do not provide the level of entertainment to keep players engaged. High level of financialization is actually keeping traditional players away from many of the early GameFi games.
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
Btw asides the tech side of things do you still have connections with HeroEngine?
Alex Shalash
yes, i am still the Chairman of the Board of Directors at HeroEngine.
and we have an ongoing collaboration between metaEngine and HeroEngine
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
Oh, great that means it’s being run in parallel
Alex Shalash
yes, but with a different focus
on large scale simulations
Pavel P
Do you plan to implement any innovations from metaEngine to HeroEngine?
Alex Shalash
yes, the underlying game dev tech infra development is share across both
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
Talking about high level of financialization, how does metaEngine solve this?
Alex Shalash
we remove the tech obstacles in game dev process, that way devs can build great engaging experiences. We are not the ones with the ideas for games – there are millions of games devs around the world. We provide the tech and infra to make it happen
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
Thank you for your Answers Alex
Ready for the next question now?
Alex Shalash
sure
Pavel P
Q2 from Telegram user @Neilselin
MetaEngine is a first-of-its-kind cloud-based platform for developing blockchain games, where developers can find all the advanced tools necessary to build and launch the most immersive game possible in the metaverse. Can you elaborate on the metaENGINE multi-chain infrastructure and how it enables frictionless decentralized network system that outperforms any traditional game engine? Can you give us some highlights of the tools that metaEngine will provide for developers to build and launch there games?
Alex Shalash
We at metaEngine can’t force game devs to use any specific blockchain for their GameFi / Metaverse projects.
By integrating support for Polygon, other EVMs, Solana and others, we aim to offer the multi-chain infrastructure to devs out of the box, so they don’t have to spend time and money doing it themselves.
metaEngine is unique in providing a cloud-based multi-developer environment. This allows multi-disciplinary teams from anywhere in the world to collaborate 24/7 and developer games faster.
From the first days of development, the projects are massive multiplayer online
Marketplace, integrated wallets, etc. are just a subset of tools
that we will offer to metaverse builders
Pavel P
That’s quite a lot, I should say
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
Do you already have Devs who are building with your tools?
Alex Shalash
We have an advantage of almost two decades of game infra experience
yes, we do have devs that have started building on metaEngine, but it’s early days, as we started marketing the platform in March. Many more devs will join in the coming weeks / months.
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
Thank you for your answers
Pavel P
As the market goes green, you will definitely have them
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
Do you want to add anything to this or should we proceed?
Alex Shalash
the marketplace is planned to go live in the next two months.
let’s go
Pavel P
Q3 from Telegram user @Meta_MateX
In one of your recent interviews it was mentioned that players can produce any game item – weapons, avatars, lands and then use it on multiple games through metaEngine. Could you go a little deep here and explain how does it really work on metaEngine. What are the games already covered by this possibility? Please also cover the prices as it should be important for the community. Thanks!
Alex Shalash
This is the holy grail of Metaverse dev.
Let’s break it down.
Owing to the underlying MMO nature of our platform, we enable Asset Interoperability for games built on our platform. Players will be able to enter their 3D house / hanger where they can see all of their belongings, choose the character, weapons, skins, pets, etc. and enter into any of the games that have chosen to enable those assets within their gameplay.
Our infra is unique in these capabilities, as other game engines are made primarily for single player experiences, or limited multiplayer (up to 100)
The underlying tech is already there, but games taking advantage of these features will be coming in the future.
We are going to charge 10% royalties on the revenues generated by games on our platform. These royalties will go to cover our engineering, infrastructure and other costs associated with the management of the platform.
for comparison, Steam charges 30%
and they don’t offer any infrastructure
Pavel P
That’s what we call a customer based approach
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
This makes metaEngine better
Alongside the assets interoperability, will the developers also be able to build across multiple chains?
Alex Shalash
the chains connections will be built into the Digital Asset Hub, the engine will provide their 3D representations and transactions API.
So, if you acquired NFTs and hold them in wallets on different chains
you will be able to see their 3D representation in your house / hanger and use them in games.
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
Thank you for clarifying this
Ready for the next question?
Alex Shalash
fire away
Pavel P
Q4 from Telegram User @Rozielyna
Strategic Partnership and investments are key to improving the credibility and success of a Project and its products. Can you tell us who are your partners? Are you currently working on any partnership? What are some of the positive impacts and advancements of these partnerships and investors on your project so far? What are the benefits your investors and Partners will enjoy as being part of your project ? How do you strategize to Attract more investors to MetaENGINE as the project advances and make them stay for a Long-term?
Alex Shalash
This industry’s success is built on partnerships, especially for an infra project like ours.
We are already working with a number of partners and have a dedicated team to expand the number of those. The key partnerships at present are focusing around platform development, such as Polygon, Solana, and many others. In addition, we are partnering up with Metaverse developers to provide our platform and support in developing their experiences. The third group of partners are content developers, who are eager to join our Digital Asset Hub and become part of the future games.
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
Do you have specific names of partners already?
Alex Shalash
Can’t announce yet the games, you will see those announced in the coming weeks.
We are preparing joint communications
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
We will be on the lookout for that
Thank you for your answers so far
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
Ready to proceed?
Alex Shalash
yes
Pavel P
Q5 From Telegram User @Icevermithraxx
Like Most Platforms, metaENGINE allow game developers to govern, monitor and operate the metaENGINE community through a DAO. What are the requirements for users(game Developers) to join metaENGINE DAO and participate in decision making of the community? I also noted that metaENGINE takes Royalties from games published on it’s platform. What percentage of Royalties does metaENGINE attached to Games developed on its Platform? Is the percentage of Royalty negotiable? Are these Royalties for a particular period of time?
Alex Shalash
There are two separate DAO types we should differentiate here.
metaEngine DAO – where our token holders will participate in the governance of the platform.
And GameFi / Metaverse DAOs that game devs are going to create for their own projects.
The Royalties are set at 10% of the total revenues and are going to cover our engineering, infrastructure and other costs associated with the management of the platform.
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
And how do users participate in the metaEngine DAO?
Alex Shalash
Following our TGE
which for now as you understand is on hold due to the market conditions.
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
Oh okay, well understood.
Thank you Alex
Alex Shalash
you are welcome
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
Right now we will like to proceed to the last question of this part
Are you ready for it?
Alex Shalash
let’s do it, my fingers are hurting already
Pavel P
Q6 from Telegram User @Ask4unik
Security is one key reason why some developers refrains from publishing their game in certain engine, considering the fact that hackers can gain access to private keys to forge fake withdrawals leading to huge losses.With this in mind,what measures or tools will MetaEngine employ to make it impossible for hackers to penetrate? Which security company/companies Will you be working with? Why should we trust your project? Kindly give us more information.Thanks
Alex Shalash
On the security front, we are working closely with our partners such as Polygon to make sure our platform is secure. We are not planning to take custody of NFTs or other digital assets, and will use industry partners expertise to offer those services.
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
They better not Hurt expecially with the second part coming up
Alex Shalash
hehehe
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
So you do have working partnership with polygon?
Alex Shalash
yes, they are our Seed investor and partner.
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
Awesome
Pavel P
Beforу we proceed to the second part, please share links to your official media
Alex Shalash
On the security side we also partnered up with Zokyo.
Alex Shalash
To learn more about our project please follow metaENGINE in the links below:
Website(https://metaengine.gg/)
➡️ Telegram Announcements
(https://t.me/metaENGINE_Announcements)
➡️ Telegram Community
(https://t.me/metaENGINE_Community)
(http://twitter.com/meta_engine)
➡️ Medium
(https://metaengine.medium.com/)
➡️ Discord
(https://discord.com/invite/YPmaeyp4kw)
(https://reddit.com/user/metaengine)
(http://linkedin.com/company/metaengine)
http://instagram.com/metaengine.official)
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
Thank you for sharing
Alex Shalash
sorry for the glitch
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
We will now proceed to the second part of our AMA, where our community will ask you their questions directly
Are you ready for them?
The chat will be opened for only 120 seconds
Alex Shalash
yes
open the gates
Pavel P
Let’s fire!
Jonah 🏅🎹 | Satoshi Club
Opening in 5 secs
Part 2 — live questions from the Telegram community
Q1 from Telegram user @Ms_Ross_saini
In the real time game development i have read that we can also change in the live game like the real metaverse Do so, could you tell us that what real changes we can change in the game ?
Alex Shalash
Using our real time dev, you can change, update or add new content while your players are already in the game. This way you can expand your metaverse from a smaller mini experience to a large open world.
Q2 from Telegram user @mucana
Does MetaEngine have any advantages over its two biggest competitors in the game engine space, the Unreal engine and Unity? If so, what are they?
Alex Shalash
unique features are:
– massive multiplayer online,
– fully integrated development environment,
– real-time multi-developer environment,
– integrated multi-chain support. NFTs created on different chains, could be brought into metaEngine and used across multiple games – real asset interoperability.
Our engine is cloud-based , this means that distributed teams from anywhere in the world can collaborate on the development of their 3D games
These are the core differentiating features
Q3 from Telegram user @Amalia_233
May I know How Your ASSET STORE Will Be Different From other TRADITIONAL GAMES and What are your Main Features due to Which Many People will Join the Platform ?
Alex Shalash
Using our Asset store, devs will be able to pull the digital assets into their games, and players will be able to trade those assets and see that ownership change in all the games that are using those assets. It’s a dynamic connection, unlike with other engines it’s baked in.
Q4 from Telegram user @KhaleesiKhalee
What are the Most desired features that you will bring to the GameFi World to Reality?
Alex Shalash
massive scale for environment and players
Q5 from Telegram user @munnabhaiya11
The platform takes complete care of the integrations that any developer would require while developing a world-class game, reducing your cost .How are you reducing the cost and how much cost do you reduce for any developer?
Alex Shalash
costs are reduced in many ways: no need to hire your own server, network, database, blockchain engineers – we have done all that work already. Devs can save millions during the lifecycle of the game.
Q6 from Telegram user @hectordonovans
Can you tell us about the relationship between Web 3.0 and Metaverse and the differences between them? Could you tell us about metaEngine’s tasks and complementarity between Web3.0 and Metaverse?
Alex Shalash
Metaverse is utilizing Web3, but not Web3 by itself.
Q7 from Telegram user @Madan94495721
Some gaming engine requires some set of skill to operate, create & build games upon. What set of skills will a game developer required to have in order to develop game on metaEngine?
Alex Shalash
any game developer or creator can learn to develop on game engines, just need to dedicate time and passion.
Q8 from Telegram user @Lestmarisv13
GameFi is poised to take over a huge chunk of the gaming industry worldwide, and connecting GameFi with SocialFi can give both platforms the boost in engagement they need to become truly ubiquitous. What will be the influence and impact of MetaEngine in all this?
Alex Shalash
metaEngine’s contribution here is in bringing professional level tools to build better experiences.
Q9 from Telegram user @queen_king786
CAN YOU TELL US THAT HOW IT IS GOING TO BE A FUTURE OF GAMEFI ?
FROM WHICH LINE IS THE DEVELOPER OF THIS PLATFORM CAME ?
TELL US ?
Alex Shalash
We believe that we will transition from GameFi Play2Earn to Play&Earn, where there is less focus on money and more on entertainment.
Q10 from Telegram user @Tavasya23
You have Said that METAENGINE Is the FUTURE OF GAMEFI , Could You Please Talk More about this and There are Already Big Names in the GAMEFI , So How You Will be Different ?
Alex Shalash
There are big players in GameFi, but not on the infrastructure side yet. We are planning to take that spot in the future as more traditional game devs embrace blockchain and more metaverse projects come online with fun games.
Part 3 – Quiz Results
As usual, for the third part, Satoshi Club Team asked the chat 4 questions about the crypto project. A link to a Quiz form was sent into the chat.
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