World News – USA – Roblox partners with Ernest Cline on the Ready Player Two event

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Ready Player Two, the highly anticipated sequel to Ernest Cline’s global bestseller Ready Player One, makes its debut in the U. . S.. . and you. K. . on the 24th. November. In a partnership, Roblox is launching a themed treasure hunt with seven user-generated games based on the book within the Roblox platform.

This is another example of the plans to spawn the Metaverse (or in the setting of Ready Player One, the Oasis), the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, as in novels like Snow Crash and Cline’s book. Dave Baszucki, CEO of Roblox, will be announced on Jan.. January at the GamesBeat Summit: Speaking into the Metaverse.

The collaboration should get a lot of attention as the science fiction book is likely to be the biggest fiction book of 2020. And it comes shortly after Roblox announced its submission for an initial public offering that could value the user-generated games company at $ 8 billion.

Those players who have completed the treasure hunt will receive virtual goods specially developed for the Ready Player Two and Roblox events.

The event will include a virtual Q&A with Cline and Baszucki. The Q&A will be from 1. Streamed December at 10 a.m. as part of the Ready Player Two event. m. Pacific.

The Q&A contains instructions for navigating the treasure hunt. In addition to the Q&A, users can find clues by calling Ready Player Two prior to the start of the event on Jan.. December read.

The Ready Player Two and Roblox event is open to the global Roblox community of more than 150 million users. In 2018, Roblox and Warner Bros. . worked on an event related to the release of Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster adaptation of Ready Player One, and over 13 million people actively participated in the event on the Roblox platform.

Baszucki said in a statement that it is fair to say that this event will be even bigger. The Ready Player Two event area in Roblox is officially open to fans in preparation for the start of the event. Over a million Roblox users visited the area in the first 24 hours. Free Ready Player dual theme merchandise is available to anyone visiting the space for a limited time.

Cline said in a statement, “Roblox is the closest to the oasis in real life, and this competition is the closest to the treasure hunt in my book. ”

The original title was released in 2011 and envisioned a near future where the world would experience a pandemic and find itself in a severe economic depression, allowing humanity to escape an inhospitable real world to ensure the safety of a virtual one. (Yes, the pandemic part sounds familiar to me. The predictive novel was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than 100 weeks, and Steven Spielberg made a film on it.

In Ready Player Two, Cline takes readers on a new adventure through his virtual universe, the oasis.

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