{"id":36328,"date":"2018-07-27T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/323111"},"modified":"2018-07-27T17:11:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T17:11:00","slug":"netease-invests-50m-in-improbable-to-use-spatialos-in-upcoming-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/27\/netease-invests-50m-in-improbable-to-use-spatialos-in-upcoming-game\/","title":{"rendered":"NetEase invests $50M in Improbable, to use SpatialOS in upcoming game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese internet tech company NetEase has made a $50 million investment in SpatialOS dev Improbable, picking up what a <a href=\"https:\/\/improbable.io\/company\/news\/2018\/07\/26\/improbable-announces-investment-from-chinese-games-giant-netease-netease-to-make-games-using-improbables-spatialos-tech\">press release<\/a> describes as a \u201csmall stake\u201d in the company in the process.<\/p>\n<p>For Improbable, however, the partnership represents a way for the company to bring its cloud-based platform to both China and developers in the Asia Pacific region, something that is typically difficult to do for a Western company.<\/p>\n<p>SpatialOS itself is a cloud-based technology geared toward developers making online games. The platform divides the computational work of managing online worlds and divides it up between a battalion of cloud-based servers, allowing developers to create more vast and persistent online worlds. So far, the tech has been used in the recently released MMO game <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/321762\/How_Bossa_relied_on_players_to_help_build_its_skyfaring_MMO_Worlds_Adrift.php\">Worlds Adrift<\/a> <\/em>and is used by the upcoming AI-driven MMO title <em>Seed <\/em>as well.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the partnership, NetEase itself has announced that it will be releasing at least one SpatialOS-powered game in the future, though it won\u2019t officially reveal the title itself until later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese internet tech company NetEase has made a $50 million investment in SpatialOS dev Improbable, picking up what a press release describes as a \u201csmall stake\u201d in the company in the process. For Improbable, however, the partnership represents a way for the company to bring its cloud-based platform to both China and developers in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}