The creator of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds wants to build a “metaverse” but says it could take 15 years and he can’t yet explain what it will look like.

Modder-turned-millionaire Brendan Greene, who designed the battle royale game PUBG: BattlegroundsHe wants to make his studio’s next game a “metaverse,” though he says he’s wary of using the word. The project is called “Artemis” (at least for now) and you won’t see it anytime soon. This is because the studio is still working on the technology and plans to release two other games before then. That means it will be 10-15 years before it actually comes out.

Green describes Artemis as an Internet-like platform where users can create and share things, but he doesn’t say specifically what those things might be. The user-driven “multiverse” doesn’t know how to edit it, or how to prevent copyright infringement, or what to distinguish this idea from, say. Roblox. However, he is “full of confidence”.

“(Yes) it’s a big vision,” he said. In a recent interview with IGN“But I have a great team of industry professionals and they don’t think it’s that crazy.

“I hesitate to talk about it, because it’s such a dirty word, but I don’t think anyone else because I want to build Metaverse. I think everyone is building IP bubbles that can talk to each other to some degree. In the future, maybe if we’re lucky, it’s not Metaverse, it’s creating your own world. And you should be able to make them all work together with a protocol like HTTP. So the world is Page and I’m trying to work with Artemis. I am what I am.

What Artemis looks like, and what kind of players (users?) will be doing in her realm, isn’t really said, except to say that it might look a bit like that. Star Trek‘s Holodeck or Minecraft’s survival mode. His studio, PlayerUnknown Productions, said he could build it with the world-class technology they’re creating for their next survival game. Introduction: Go backSo far, it seems to be running gracefully and correctly through hunger, thirst and all the usual game of survival. Artemis itself is still years away from release, Green said. And even when it comes out, it can take time to absorb.

“When the Internet first started, it was empty, and it was just sharing data, and that’s how I see it. It might be empty for the first few years, but eventually you start to see what you can do with this kind of world generator that feels like many worlds.

Green expands on the idea in the interview, but the bottom line is this: Artemis is still a lot of big, cloudy ideas. My gut reaction to millionaires stalking the metaverse is crass, mouth-mouth-mouth-mouth-mouth-doubt. The two mentioned inspirations (The Holodeck and Minecraft) technically speaking have a gulf between them. And the player-driven innovation Green has revealed exists in other games like Roblox. The audience only fights to protect children from harm.

Until then, Fortnite has given players tools Make your own creations with the real editor for Fortnite And other studios are developing similar games for the platform. everywhereforthcoming Make your own minigame machine Build Rocket Boy, itself described as a bit grander, is basically a PlayStation dream with multiplayer options. The types of games that Green thinks of as “IP bubbles” may actually exist, but it’s not clear what makes PlayUnknown’s Metagrounds different from them.

Artemis is also – let’s face it – less likely to be as revolutionary as the Internet, which Green Stuff repeatedly compares. I’m wary of calling the Metaverse the holy grail of the tech world, mainly because people with a lot of heads in games and tech seem to hear the word “holy grail” and it’s definitely something we can achieve if we pour enough money into it. It’s!” Which isn’t the original meaning of the phrase. But calling Metavas a “sacrament” suggests that it’s something universally desirable in the first place. And I’m not sure that’s true. Most people want to play video games.

Green talks about all the possibilities for Artemis in the interview, so it’s worth a read if you want to understand his reasoning and gain insight into some of the other questions that arise from his thoughts. When asked how such a world-world can be fixed, he said: “We have to understand it” and “it is necessary to fix it”. When asked if he uses NFTs, Artemis says he doesn’t. Previous report Saying this will happen.

At present, Artemis remains a dream of unproven value. Whatever it is, it can be fun. In fact, it can reach hundreds of thousands of Plunkbat players. But is it worth millions of greenbacks? Will there be a second 3D Internet? not sure.