Announced in mid Dec. of last year, Midnight Society, YouTuber Dr Disrespect's newfound AAA video game studio, is building a high-class and NFT-integrated "vertical extraction shooter" (VES), according to the firm's recent blog post. Midnight Society's game, coined in the interim as simply "Project Moon," will merge both arena shooter mechanics with the "scale and scope of battle royale player counts."
The reality behind Midnight Society and its myriad ambitions have been steeped in controversy as of late, due in large part to the studio's forthcoming utilization of NFTs in its game, as well as its initial entry fare. The company debuted $50 Founders Active Passes in March, accruing a whopping 400,000 potential applicants that had to be whittled down to the base 10,000 NFTs minted for the event.
Via its Founders Active Passess, participants are guaranteed sweet rewards, like exclusive merchandise, game feature voting rights, exclusive game development discussion, as well as the download and playtesting of Midnight Society's ongoing Snapshots project for Project Moon. Snapshots act almost like mini-demos for the studio's ongoing development, dropping "vertical slices of key aspects of the game meant to focus the community's discussion around specific features or mechanics we're actively building."
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Midnight Society's main goal behind Snapshots, which will be released every six weeks, is essential transparency, community discussion, and general feedback. The firm relates that "communities deserve access to games currently in development." The issue with this, however, is in the fact that games aren't typically made in this fashion. Forbes writer Paul Tassi reached out to various game developers via Twitter, posing the question of Snapshots' viability as a development tactic, which ended up receiving a lot of skepticism and negatives from most respondents.
innovation comes from trying stuff that others think won’t work, so maybe they’ll discover something cool
My 2cents are the cycles seem too fast for meaningful new changes
games are bad for a long time, I’d worry most features get panned before they get a chance at iteration— Joe Blackburn (@joegoroth) July 11, 2022
The Two Time himself, Dr Disrespect, replied to Tassi's tweet with a rather snarky "Damn we forgot to run our plans by the 'Gamedev folks'. Hope they say it's okay." It adds additional proof in the fact that Midnight Society has a lot of proving ground to make up for, despite its enlistment of several well-known video game developers, including the likes of Call of Duty's Robert Bowling, among plenty other individuals behind such games as Gears of War III, Duke Nukem Forever, Halo: Infinite, and more.
As far as any official release date for Project Moon goes, little is known. The studio's recent roadmap highlights an upcoming meet and greet scheduled for July 29 in LA. It is here wherein lucky participants will be given the very first hands-on experience with Project Moon, offered only for those who own the Founders Access Pass. Its last event, which took place on June 7 in New York City, saw the Midnight Society logo plastered across a Times Square billboard, heralding the studio's ostentatious presence within the industry.
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Written by Ryan Epps
