Ethereum Game ‘Illuvium’ Reveals AI Agent Plans via Surging Virtuals Protocol

Ethereum recreation franchise Illuvium is about to leverage the viral AI agent Virtuals Protocol to reinforce its non-playable characters, or NPCs. This comes after Virtuals has surged in reputation in current weeks after it lowered the barrier for AI agent creation, resulting in the creation of a few of Crypto Twitter’s favourite new characters.

The Virtuals Protocol straps AI brokers with its proprietary G.A.M.E giant language mannequin framework to energy AI brokers. AiXBT (AIXBT) is the most well-liked of all its creations to this point at a $489 million market cap, with over 320,000 followers on X (previously generally known as Twitter).

This identical expertise is about to be plugged into the Illuvium gaming franchise, which launched three gaming titles in 2024. Illuvium’s trio of video games (Overworld, Area, and Zero) span three distinctively totally different genres of an open-world survival multiplayer recreation, an auto-battler, and a metropolis builder—all of which can implement Virtuals tech, the developer mentioned Tuesday.

Put merely, utilizing Virtuals’ G.A.M.E framework goals to enhance gameplay and interactions with NPCs, as they’ll be powered utilizing simpler synthetic intelligence. This may present itself by way of extra dynamic questing, storytelling, and deeper NPC relationships.

Whereas the partnership announcement claims that every one three titles will ultimately use the framework, it seems that Illuvium’s evolving open-world survival recreation Overworld will use it first.

This comes after Illuvium outlined plans to maneuver the franchise ahead, as co-founder Kieran Warwick admitted in a weblog submit that “considerations” about its gameplay had been legitimate.

As such, Warwick proposed numerous adjustments forward for the franchise, together with specializing in one recreation at a time somewhat than three, decreasing microtransactions, and transforming its open-world recreation Overworld right into a “streamlined, extra accessible” expertise akin to a massively multiplayer on-line recreation, or an “MMO lite.”

“lluvium’s immersive world, mixed with an agentic NPC framework, positions it to steer the subsequent period of gaming innovation,” Ether Mage, the pseudonymous co-founder of Virtuals Protocol, mentioned in a press release. “We’re thrilled to deliver our proprietary framework to life of their upcoming ‘MMO lite’ and showcase the transformative potential of AI-driven gaming.”

The Virtuals token (VIRTUAL) runs on Ethereum, whereas AI agent tokens working on the protocol have been minted on layer-2 community Base. VIRTUAL has surged by 117% during the last 30 days, per knowledge from CoinGecko, sitting at a present value of $3.74.

Edited by Andrew Hayward