March 8, 2024

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Metakey Monthly - February 2024

Mateen Soudagar
CEO & Co-founder

Hello Metakey! 

As promised, we are back with another routine monthly update, providing you all with some deep insights into what we’ve been up to over the last 4 weeks.

February was another big one for both our Metakey Roblox Studio, and New Ganymede.

We amplified our blog strategy to bring you 3 new, value packed pieces ranging from interviews, team highlights and comprehensive Roblox case study breakdowns.

As we continue to grow, and take on new clients we had to expand our team, welcoming several new team members, as well as being able to celebrate the company anniversaries of others.

To be considered expert game developers, we have added new channels to showcase some of our proudest artwork. We thought, ‘What’s the point of hiding all these epic images and videos?!’.

Lastly, we have some exciting updates that we have been making to New Ganymede.

Read on to hear and see more!

Hello Metakey! 

As promised, we are back with another routine monthly update, providing you all with some deep insights into what we’ve been up to over the last 4 weeks.

February was another big one for both our Metakey Roblox Studio, and New Ganymede.

We amplified our blog strategy to bring you 3 new, value packed pieces ranging from interviews, team highlights and comprehensive Roblox case study breakdowns.

As we continue to grow, and take on new clients we had to expand our team, welcoming several new team members, as well as being able to celebrate the company anniversaries of others.

To be considered expert game developers, we have added new channels to showcase some of our proudest artwork. We thought, ‘What’s the point of hiding all these epic images and videos?!’.

Lastly, we have some exciting updates that we have been making to New Ganymede.

Read on to hear and see more!

Let’s quickly touch on VISION

Metakey's overall vision has evolved into becoming a full scale creative studio that builds games and experiences.

To break this down even further, our studio efforts go into 2 main build types:

  1. Our Roblox/Fortnite studio:

    This allows Metakey to open conversations with brands, blockchain games and other businesses that want to expand their IP beyond Web3.


  2. New Ganymede

    Our first blockchain game title. An Action RPG that’s been in development for ~2 Years.

Focusing our resources on these 2 projects will allow us to bridge the gap between Web2 and Web3 gaming. 

This is a problem that the industry is yet to fix. It's a BIG industry wide effort which we think we can help tremendously with

New Ganymede

While we're continuing to stress test New Ganymede, the Crypto market has been on a major upward trend which has coincided perfectly for the launch.

Our dedication to the game over the past two years has placed us in an exciting position. We've successfully built a finished product that has piqued the strong interest of VC's investors.

As of this week, investors have reached out to invest in New Ganymede as blockchain based games are starting to make headlines again

This will enable us to engage in an impactful marketing campaign over the coming year.

We’re hoping that by sharing this blog post it may provide some clarity as to why we have pushed back Alpha and play testing. 

It is still early days and nothing has been solidified. However, it's a different, more favorable landscape for blockchain gaming in comparison to a year ago!

Here are some of the latest updates that we have made to New Ganymede:

  • Independent server architecture has been built and is currently in testing, with working integration (i.e. wallet read and corresponding assets unlocked) of IMX and main net;

  • Core combat systems have been rigorously tested and refined (tightening animations, hitboxes and damage number balancing);

  • Enemy spawn rate, pathing and wave composition has also been refined;

  • Golmog boss fight has been overhauled;

  • Architecture for quest and dialogue system has been mostly developed and started to be integrated;

  • Several optimisation passes have been completed;

  • Closed demo opportunities will be right around the corner and rolled out iteratively.

Pictured above: Vintage SOLAR outfit (ed.1 exclusive season 0 reward) and Medean Telson weapon (ed.2 exclusive)

Metakey utility?

Metakey's have always been at the heart of what we do. We've tested dozens of utility and perk campaigns and the below is how we plan to integrate them into what we are working on:

  • Metakey's will be usable across New Ganymede

  • We plan to activate more collaborations to add new value to them

  • For Discord alpha, we are looking to bring in and facilitate more sharing of Crypto strategy and landscape news as the space is heating up again

Let’s quickly touch on VISION

Metakey's overall vision has evolved into becoming a full scale creative studio that builds games and experiences.

To break this down even further, our studio efforts go into 2 main build types:

  1. Our Roblox/Fortnite studio:

    This allows Metakey to open conversations with brands, blockchain games and other businesses that want to expand their IP beyond Web3.


  2. New Ganymede

    Our first blockchain game title. An Action RPG that’s been in development for ~2 Years.

Focusing our resources on these 2 projects will allow us to bridge the gap between Web2 and Web3 gaming. 

This is a problem that the industry is yet to fix. It's a BIG industry wide effort which we think we can help tremendously with

New Ganymede

While we're continuing to stress test New Ganymede, the Crypto market has been on a major upward trend which has coincided perfectly for the launch.

Our dedication to the game over the past two years has placed us in an exciting position. We've successfully built a finished product that has piqued the strong interest of VC's investors.

As of this week, investors have reached out to invest in New Ganymede as blockchain based games are starting to make headlines again

This will enable us to engage in an impactful marketing campaign over the coming year.

We’re hoping that by sharing this blog post it may provide some clarity as to why we have pushed back Alpha and play testing. 

It is still early days and nothing has been solidified. However, it's a different, more favorable landscape for blockchain gaming in comparison to a year ago!

Here are some of the latest updates that we have made to New Ganymede:

  • Independent server architecture has been built and is currently in testing, with working integration (i.e. wallet read and corresponding assets unlocked) of IMX and main net;

  • Core combat systems have been rigorously tested and refined (tightening animations, hitboxes and damage number balancing);

  • Enemy spawn rate, pathing and wave composition has also been refined;

  • Golmog boss fight has been overhauled;

  • Architecture for quest and dialogue system has been mostly developed and started to be integrated;

  • Several optimisation passes have been completed;

  • Closed demo opportunities will be right around the corner and rolled out iteratively.

Pictured above: Vintage SOLAR outfit (ed.1 exclusive season 0 reward) and Medean Telson weapon (ed.2 exclusive)

Metakey utility?

Metakey's have always been at the heart of what we do. We've tested dozens of utility and perk campaigns and the below is how we plan to integrate them into what we are working on:

  • Metakey's will be usable across New Ganymede

  • We plan to activate more collaborations to add new value to them

  • For Discord alpha, we are looking to bring in and facilitate more sharing of Crypto strategy and landscape news as the space is heating up again

Blogging

Blogging gives us the opportunity to tell interesting stories in greater length. That’s why we have set ourselves the goal of posting 1 blog a week that will live in the ‘News’ section of our beautiful website that you are currently surfing. These posts serve to bring clarity to our business ventures but also bring eyeballs to our Roblox studio and game development capabilities.

Our topics vary greatly from week to week in order to contribute value through variety, including the following headlines that we launched in the month of Feb:

  1. Roblox Advertising - EVERYTHING you need to know

This is an extremely detailed breakdown of all the attributes that make up the advertising function on the Roblox platform.

It covers everything from how it works, to all the different types of advertising, targeting, algorithm, analytics, case studies and more.

We highly recommend you read this one back to front if you want to learn how to effectively use Roblox Ads!

  1. Metakey Monthly - January

The first of our Metakey Monthly updates! 

A versatile and visual depiction as to what the month of January looked like for our brand.

  1. Brookhaven: A thorough breakdown of one or Roblox’s biggest games 

We believe this is the most comprehensive case study of Brookhaven available anywhere.

Using all original insights and content this breakdown looks at everything from the psychology of RPG gamers, the attributes that make Brookhaven so popular, user retention strategy and generation Alpha’s persona.

If you can replicate the strategy of Brookhaven, then you’ve got yourself a winning Roblox game - Read it now!

Celebrating the new, and the loyal

February saw the induction of 2 new team members.

We are extremely excited to have welcomed Alex Shuford, who has joined our art team as a Games Developer.

With several years of experience designing and building on Roblox for some huge brands, he is a welcomed addition to our team! Take a look at some of his prior work:

  • Chipotle Burrito Builder ✅ 25.4 Million visits

  • NFL Tycoon ✅18 Million visits

  • NFL Quarterback ✅12.4 Million visits

  • Honda Rewired ✅ 500k Visits

We also brought on board Prithvi Raj Chauhan to support our marketing department.

Prithvi has an incredible passion for Roblox and an unbelievable understanding of the platform, how it works and the power it holds if leveraged correctly by brands.

Specialising in content creation, he has been responsible for some of our blogs including the Brookhaven breakdown and his own LinkedIn channels which direct traffic back to Metakey.

In addition to our newer team members, we also celebrated the longevity of some of our OG Metakey team members.

Nick Sawchyn, our 3D lead designer, and Timi M, our Unreal Engine lead, both celebrated 2 years with us.

This was a huge milestone not only for them, but for us too, as it gave us a great depiction of the type of workplace that we have created at Metakey - a place where our team want to learn, grow, feel engaged and fulfilled.

Showcasing our best artwork

If you’re going to talk the talk, you have to walk the walk too.

We wholeheartedly believe we have one of the best art teams around so we are making a concerted effort to showcase this through all of our key channels including the latest page addition on our site ‘Portfolio’.

This page shows dozens of sharp, eccentric and breathtaking pieces of art that our team have created over time from some of our biggest projects including New Ganymede, Tuned Global and more.

Scroll through and check it out!

If you follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter, you would have seen that we’ve increased our posting, especially with our art content.

We are showcasing multiple times a week sneak peak art from upcoming projects and older work from New Ganymede, to Sophia AI, to Roblox test animations and more.

It’s integral to us to continually show our community exactly what we are working on and the amazing things we have designed and built in the past.

Make sure to follow us to see daily content on this!

That's it for this month - See you next March for another update!

Mateen Soudagar
CEO & Co-founder

Matty is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metakey.

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unlocking dreams

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