Base jump introduced its Web3 social gaming platform with an AI-powered gaming substrate called Action that enables players to create their very own games.
The company also closed a strategic investment round from Community Labs. Scheduled to launch in early 2025, Basejump will allow players to earn, explore and share game resources and even create entire games.
Basejump is built on Action, an open, AI-driven substrate developed by the Basejump team that enables users to generate content without programming knowledge, making game creation more accessible and interactive.
Action runs on AO, the distributed supercomputer that leverages Arweave's persistent storage technology to be sure that user-created content, corresponding to game assets and worlds, are stored on the blockchain and will be accessed indefinitely.
“Basejump is a discovery interface for the three.2 billion individuals who use avatars in games and digital worlds,” Basejump CEO Matt Mason said in a press release. “Imagine a spot where you may bring your game characters, items and skins into an expanding universe of worlds you could immediately create and explore. This dream is finally possible because of the AO supercomputer.”
Lex Johnson, chief creative officer, said in a press release: “Building on Action’s AI capabilities and AO’s powerful infrastructure, users will have the opportunity to bring unique, interoperable game worlds and assets to life.” And because of Arweave, they may these creations live to tell the tale permanently. The opportunities for brand new cultural and industrial experiences are incredible.”
“Basejump’s unique approach to combining social gaming with AI-driven creation on AO’s infrastructure is strictly the kind of groundbreaking initiative that aligns with our mission,” Community Labs CEO Tate Berenbaum said in a press release. “We are enthusiastic about this partnership and the chance to support their vision to reshape the long run of gaming.”
Community Labs is uniquely positioned at the middle of the Arweave and AO ecosystem and is devoted to constructing foundational tools and infrastructure to unravel the important thing challenges facing developers and users. The organization's mission is to drive innovation and create impactful solutions. Through its enterprise studio, Community Labs equips founders and teams with the resources they should discover, develop and scale product ideas from ideation to mass adoption.
Action is an open, permissionless gaming substrate enabled by AO's horizontally scalable on-chain computing, enabling users to create AI-powered gaming experiences, avatars, and interoperable gaming assets.
AO is a hyperparallel computer (actually a supercomputer created by aggregating unused GPUs) designed to offer trustworthy and cooperative computing services without practical scalability limitations. It combines the trust minimization advantages of blockchain networks with the speed and scalability of traditional computing environments.
Key features include support for any variety of parallel processes, unlimited computing capabilities, and seamless integration with Arweave for data storage. This architecture allows developers to construct scalable, efficient, and verifiable decentralized applications.
Origins
The company formerly generally known as Dazzle Ship released an NFT collection about 18 months ago. Based on the community that formed across the metaverse-like spaces, the corporate decided to develop Basejump starting with interoperable game avatars, Mason said in an interview with GamesBeat.
Together together with his co-founders (Brent Fitzgerald, CTO and Lex Johnson, CCO), Mason began to assume the subsequent generation of the Internet and its requirements. He hopes that Web3 technology like wallets will eventually just work and fade into the background while players can have a magical experience. Work began in November 2022. The team consists of three founders and five other people.
“Today, 3.2 billion people use game avatars worldwide,” he said.
But these avatars don't work whenever you switch from game to game. Competitors like Ready Player Me have created their version of interoperable avatars which are playable in 1000’s of games. But Basejump has its own tackle this and would consider an alliance with Ready Player Me, Mason said.
“Many worlds have partitions between them, but increasingly of them may have fewer partitions,” he said. “It's becoming easier and easier to take something from a game and use it as a feature on a social network or vice versa,” Mason said. “And that’s why base jumping is actually made for that reality.”
The company began constructing a 12 months ago, working with Community Labs, the corporate that develops the technology for AO, which is expounded to Arweave, which has scalable on-chain decentralized storage. AO effectively runs decentralized GPU computing to assist enterprises create metaverse-like experiences. Basejump raised money from Community Labs to develop Action, the substrate that AO can use. The Action Protocol will likely be an open, permissionless connection tool.
“AO performs parallel computing on-chain, allowing you to perform large calculations or run large processes in a single block. And which means you might have a fancy game character in a single block,” Mason said. “With this technology, it is simple to register game worlds and assets and create things using AI. With AO you may speak and produce a world into being. It’s like ChatGPT for gaming.”
The company is working on alpha testing next week and hopes to launch it in early 2025. The company doesn't have an NFT behind the project yet, but could have one sooner or later, Mason said.
“The business will really take off in 2025,” he said.
