Immutable X Marketplace Offers Highrise Virtual World Creature Club NFTs to Join Whitelist Land Sale

April 28, 2022 2 min read

Highrise World

Highrise developer Pocket Worlds announces the launch of Highrise World, a community-owned digital nation that uses blockchain technology to create a world that is owned by its users. The platform invites communities to build their own Highrise metaverses within Highrise World as a place for users to earn rewards by designing environments, host experiences, create virtual goods, and participate in play-and-earn events.

What began as a social game in 2015 has evolved into one of the largest digital nations on the Internet with two million monthly users. Every day, Highrise users create rooms, style avatars, host experiences, trade collectibles, connect with others, and more. Now, as its economy evolves into web3, Highrise will be known as the Highrise 101 tower. The Highrise World will then expand to include Highrise 101 and multiple self-governed towers. The first new tower will be launched in partnership with Everskies, a pixel doll community also operated by Pocket Worlds. The Highrise launchpad will also empower creative developers and individuals to launch NFT-oriented projects that can be used in a fully featured metaverse.

Land Sale

Today, Highrise World shares information on its first LAND sale, available exclusively for purchase by Highrise Creature Club NFT holders. This sale will offer 11,111 ERC-721 LAND parcels on the Ethereum blockchain that compose an island called Creature Island. The Creature Island LAND sale begins April 27 at 9 a.m. PST at https://highrise.game. Landowners will be able to build and brand their own nations, cultivate a rich and unique identity by creating experiences, build, rent and give away rooms, earn an income and profit, and govern and rule.

“Highrise World is a true metaverse built by its users,” said Anton Bernstein, co-founder and CEO of Pocket Worlds. “We’re giving our community members, brands and other community leaders the ability to become landowners in a decentralized space with actual user engagement. Owners will be able to choose how to customize, govern and monetize their Highrise, providing a never-before-seen capacity for income.”

Outlook

As Highrise World expands, three different parcel types will exist on the map: LAND, individual parcels on which landowners can create their own tower and determine how to distribute rooms to their community; ESTATE, larger domains composed of multiple LAND parcels owned by a single user that will offer more customizability, richer experiences, and higher revenue shares with the platform; and DISTRICT, larger domains composed of multiple LAND parcels owned by multiple users. Districts can be governed as decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), complete with governance tools that allow owners to make key district decisions. By owning more connected LAND in the form of ESTATES and DISTRICTS, users will have more opportunities to design complex systems for gaming, social, and creative experiences. As Highrise World evolves, Pocket Worlds has future plans to introduce its native currency, the Highrise World Token, a Highrise Gamemaker for the community to develop its own experiences in Highrise World, the Highrise Marketplace and Highrise Assets, enabling users to make their own NFTs that can be traded in the marketplace.

Current Highrise Creature Club NFT holders can join the whitelist for the first LAND sale via this form. Those who don’t own a Creature can purchase one on the Immutable X Marketplace. To learn more about Highrise World and visit Creature Island, visit https://highrise.game.

Pocket Worlds

Founded in 2013, Pocket Worlds is a metaverse company that focuses on the power of play and creativity to connect people. Its deep, rich worlds are social by design and built to last for decades. Its mission is to empower creativity and connection in a digital world. Pocket Worlds’ first metaverse, Highrise, launched in 2016 and the company acquired Everskies in 2021.