Novaquark Reaches $11.5M fundraising to support Alpha launch

On top of its fan-based crowdfunding, Novaquark signed a deal to increase its private investors funding by $3.5M over 2018, totaling $11.5M to support the launch of the Alpha and advancement of the project.

PARIS, FRANCE - August 8, 2018 - Novaquark, developer of Dual Universe, finalized a $3.5M fundraising with Andurance Venture and Azom Partners to support the launch of its Alpha, and to grow the team behind the project that brings online gaming to a new level.

Watch the latest video, outlining the development team’s ambitions and fundraising successes: https://youtu.be/sDgB7FL-HVQ

This investment follows a cumulated previous investment of $6.7M, that was accompanying the successful Kickstarter campaign run by Novaquark in 2016. It raises the total funding of the project to $11.5M, including the crowdfunding revenues. Novaquark is currently based in Paris, with 40 employees developing the in-house technology and the game Dual Universe, and now plans to expand the production team over 2019.

Dual Universe is an ambitious continuous single-shard sandbox MMO taking place on a multi-planets Sci-Fi world, and focusing on massively emergent gameplay. Players are free to create their own economic and political systems, gather in organizations and explore the procedurally generated world for resources and opportunities. Players are also able to modify the voxel-based world: create cities, various scriptable constructs like vehicles, spaceships or giant orbital station. All players share the same gigantic "single shard" universe: there is only one reality, giving birth to emergent stories and player specializations around activities like building, politics, security, piracy, space colonization and exploration, logistics, harvesting, manufacturing or industry production.

Similar in concept to worlds like the Oasis of Ready Player One, Dual Universe aims at revolutionizing the genre by creating the first global digital entertainment platform, fostering massive online communities cooperating or competing to rebuild civilizations in a virtual metaverse. Dual Universe is available now in Pre-Alpha and will reach Alpha stage in 2018.

At the heart of Dual Universe is a truly innovative proprietary technology, which was developed to lay the foundations of the game: the CSSC (continuous single-shard cluster), which manages one single universe with potentially millions of people interacting in it at the same time, with no loading screen: a metaverse. Coupled to this, an innovative voxel engine enables players to physically modify the world; dig a tunnel, carve up a mountain or build anything they want, from cities to space ships and orbital stations, at any scale they desire. Novaquark is building a virtual world environment meant to welcome millions of people, who will be able to live exciting collective adventures within a vibrant and emergent universe where everything is possible.

This freedom to explore, build, trade and conquer represents the uncompromising vision of scientist and Artificial Intelligence expert Jean-Christophe Baillie, founder of Novaquark and long-time science fiction devotee. Dual Universe picked up early momentum following a successful crowdfunding campaign, earning over a million euros in funding on both Kickstarter and its support pack campaign. Dual Universe was the 3rd biggest worldwide Kickstarter of 2016 for a video game and has a vibrant community of over 10,000 backers and 2,000 in-game organization communities.  For the latest updates visit the official website, and you can also follow the game on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and YouTube.