Ngāti Verse

Welcome to the Ngāti Verse!

Launch Party September 2022

NEXT NFT ART DROP SEPTEMBER 2022

Welcome to the Ngāti Verse, a 2D scrolling platform game of action and passion, where people and politics clash at the intersection of class and culture!

The people of Aotearoa New Zealand come in all different shapes and sizes, skin tones and political affiliations. We grumble and fight amongst each other, we shed blood and tears storming down city streets in protest and celebration! But whatever your views are on the Covid Mandates, Treaty Rights, Capital Gains Tax, Climate Change, or whatever else is afflicting you, underneath it all we are fighting for our rights and for the future of our people and communities.

So who are you in the Ngāti Verse?

Choose your side and find your way to Parliament in Pōneke beginning at Shelly Bay.

FOUNDERS NFT ART DROP JUNE 2022!

https://opensea.io/collection/ngativerse

TE NGAKO - PROJECT SUMMARY

The Metaverse has been hyped for the opportunities it presents for virtual worlds to collide and overlap. The Ngāti Verse sets out to test this hype, to see what is real and possible, and to calibrate how Māori and other Indigenous artists might exist and operate within this space.

The Ngāti Verse will grow and expand over a series of three digital platforms, beginning with this first simple 2D scrolling platform game and ultimately progressing to an immersive Web3 virtual Metaverse environment, Metawhenua. With each iteration in the series, the world expands, introducing new and increasingly complex ideas, characters, propositions and environments.

This process will enable us to develop a world-building methodology that is scalable, beginning with small achievable projects and expanding to more ambitious goals as our skills, research and understanding of the technology expands.

Our quest is to test popular Web2 and emergent Web3 ideas around the perceived value of digital art assets, including NFT gaming assets and the proposition of virtual land sales, to see if there is deeper value here in the digital space for Indigenous artists and communities.