Baobab Studios, the powerhouse animation studio behind the profitable Momoguro franchise, introduced the approaching launch of their metaverse recreation this summer season. The Momoguro recreation, titled Momo Quest, is an journey recreation coming to Roblox, the worldwide gaming platform which counts greater than 58 million each day energetic customers and 13.4 billion hours of consumer engagement per quarter.
“Roblox is an ideal platform to create experiences that enable gamers to attach by way of gaming in immersive worlds with nice tales and characters, and which mix gaming with greatest at school storytelling in immersive worlds,” says studio CEO & Co-Founder Maureen Fan. “Bringing our recreation to the platform first displays its ubiquitous presence and rising maintain in popular culture in the present day.”
Having just lately made its first foray into digital collectibles — which bought out in beneath eight hours — Baobab sees the metaverse and Roblox specifically as the subsequent step in its persevering with journey to have interaction audiences by way of well-crafted storytelling and leveraging new fan communities around the globe.
Baobab, which has gained 9 Emmy Awards and creates story franchises throughout movie, TV, video games and guide publishing that has attracted such expertise as Oprah Winfrey, John Legend and Ali Wong, additionally introduced plans to increase upon the success of its metaverse IP into movie and TV.
The studio just lately introduced a number of collaborations with Disney+ to develop animated sequence from Baobab’s library, together with The Witchverse, based mostly on the studio’s three-time Emmy Award-winning VR movie Baba Yaga, in addition to the office comedy Intercats, which Baobab can also be growing right into a graphic novel sequence at First Second Books / MacMillan Publishing.
Baobab’s government board contains Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull and Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin, and buyers embody Disney, Samsung and Comcast.
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