2023年5月30日

2022年6月6日迈克Atamas我很高兴分享(OCP提出了额外的1625万美元的由安山好瑞的新gaming-focused基金,游戏基金,由普通合伙人安德鲁•陈。我们也与我们现有的投资者的参与:前期投资和Everblue管理。这额外的资金将加速我们的努力让每个球员都成为创造积极参与游戏。人类是自然的说书人。公共围坐在篝火是其中一个最强大的共享图片正是因为我们普遍渴望创建和分享故事。今天,我们觉得通过游戏欲望最强烈。游戏是现代一种占主导地位的互动媒介,汇集了最好的部分之前的艺术形式:音乐、雕塑、绘画、建筑、电影,和讲故事。编织在一起这些艺术形式的创造性的复杂性使得游戏很棒,但也让他们出了名的困难。现代游戏的开发过程和工具忽略了这种创造性的复杂性。相反,他们已经设计和优化行业专业人士,致力于大型团队的技术和艺术专家。 Attempts to democratize game development have so far focused purely on technical simplification of tools. This leaves game creation needlessly difficult and requires a player-turned-creator to weave together multiple artistic disciplines on a blank canvas—a massive creative challenge. We’re going to change that. OCP’s mission is to make game creation accessible to every player by tackling both the creative and technical challenges of game creation. To accomplish this, we’re building two projects, codenamed CreatorLab and Muse. CreatorLab is a tightly focused sandbox that contains only the tools necessary to express novel game design in an intuitive and accessible way. It’s not a general purpose engine, but a clean, minimal palette of tools that is highly relevant to any creator. As we build CreatorLab, we are using it to simultaneously build a full-featured social game—Muse. With Muse, the OCP team is orchestrating all of the complexity of game creation so that a player can take Muse as a base and modify or extend it as far as their imagination will take them. Because Muse is a full-featured game, players can focus solely on the aspects they want to modify and trust that OCP has taken care of the rest. A player can use CreatorLab to modify Muse and change a weapon, redesign an NPC, or make their own quest. These changes instantly and seamlessly work with the living world of Muse. Players can make a single change or make a series of changes and turn Muse into a completely new experience of their choosing. “As we look to the future, we are excited to see how the right modding systems can turn siloed games into platforms, and how the next generation of indie developers can leverage the work of developers before them. We believe the OCP team is leading the charge here, and we’re ecstatic to support them on the next phase of their journey!” Andrew Chen, general partner at A16Z The combination of Muse and CreatorLab will put the power to craft stories squarely in the hands of players. But stories aren’t only meant to be created, they’re meant to be told. To enable this, we’re building social and community tools directly into CreatorLab. Players-turned-creators will have everything they need to share their creations and build communities with CreatorLab. The details of OCP’s creator-focused social and community tools are under wraps for now, but we’re excited to share more in the future. Games have already become the focal point around which we form communities and connect with our friends. By putting the power to craft stories into players’ hands and giving them a platform to share and tell those stories, we hope to bring the magic and communal intimacy of sitting around a campfire with friends to digital gaming. “It's been incredible watching Mike and Nick start from scratch a year ago and bring together a world class team of industry veterans that are making rapid progress on CreatorLab and Muse. The OCP team is composed of some of the best engineers, artists, designers and community builders from gaming companies like Epic Games, Valve, id Software, Roblox, ArenaNet and Bungie.” Kevin Zhang, partner at Upfront Ventures OCP is a fully remote and international team, with people across the US, Europe, and APAC. We’re actively hiring. If you’re excited about our mission and want to contribute to Muse or CreatorLab, please take a look at our openings at ocp.gg/jobs or reach out at contact [at] ocp.gg Share this post