According to the developers, Dual Universe is remarkably successful. This positive development is providing the studio Novaquark with even more financial foundation. The reason for this is the good feedback from players.
Investors increase capital: The investors Andurance Venture and Azom Partners, who are currently supporting Novaquark and Dual Universe, have invested another $3.5 million in the upcoming game.
With the new funds, previous investments, and crowdfunding, Dual Universe now has $11.5 million available for development.
More money for development – thanks to the players
The reason for the renewed investment is that according to CEO Jean-Christophe Baillie, Dual Universe is developing very well. He especially thanks the players who helped in the pre-alpha of the game.
$11.5 million since 2016: The Dual Universe project started in 2016 with a crowdfunding campaign that was successfully completed. This also accompanied investments from companies totaling over $6.7 million.
With the support of interested players, the amount has increased by nearly another $2 million over the years. The interest in Dual Universe has now led the investors to inject even more money into the game.
This is what Dual Universe is about: Dual Universe is currently being developed by 40 employees of Novaquark in Paris. The sci-fi MMO is supposed to become a sort of Space-Minecraft with all possible freedoms.
The technology behind Dual Universe is the “Continuous Single-Shard Cluster” (CSSC), which manages a single universe with potentially millions of players. There are supposed to be no loading screens.
Through a voxel engine, similar to Minecraft, there is terraforming and crafting. Players should be able to build whatever they want – cities, spaceships, or orbital stations.
An alpha for all supporters is already planned for late 2018. A beta will come in early 2020. The planned release of Dual Universe is the second half of 2020.
