Meet the Metaverse Partner: Electrotank – Making it Easier to Build Multiplayer and Mobile Games

Today our community managers and project managers enjoyed a very informative demonstration and brainstorming session with one of our game technology partners, @Electrotank.

Electrotank has built a platform that powers the rapid development of MMOs and social applications in both Flash and Unity 3.  It’s called the Electrotank Universe Platform (EUP), and has been licensed to build over a dozen MMOs.  In addition to providing game technology, Electrotank also has a decade of experience building browser-based games, MMOs and virtual worlds.

Like us, Electrotank is owned by its founders and employees, and has a distributed workforce and an office in DUMBO (Brooklyn).  We also share some customers, including the recently-launched @FunGoPlay, an innovative sports-themed virtual world that was built on the EUP platform.

The company’s @mikegrundvig and @mattwiesner walked us through the EUP platform’s features and tools and how it provides a much easier way for game developers to create and manage rich content (maps, items, quests, etc.).  Not exactly Game Development for Dummies but a heck of a lot easier than re-inventing the wheel!  The platform’s tool suite, like the avatar animation, quest, and item editors, are very cool, and given our mission, we were especially interested in its customizable tools for managing and moderating user generated content.  Very useful!

Thanks Electrotank for the demo and congrats on such a great product.  For more information on Electrotank, you can follow them at @Electrotank or click here.

–Mike Pinkerton, COO (@mikepink)