Juho Pääkkönen joins Village Studios, the makers of the interoperable avatar platform Playken, as Head of Progress. Pääkkönen joins from Prepared Participant Me the place he was VP of Developer Relations.
Boasting skilled expertise at corporations like Digital Chocolate, Unity, Rovio and Subsequent Video games, Pääkkönen brings veteran-level data and professionalism to Village Studios. He joins to supervise the upcoming launch of the Unity-compatible Playken SDK which can enable builders to shortly combine 3D avatars into their sport.
“I joined Village Studio as a result of I’m very excited in regards to the potential of the Playken platform and the way it presents sport builders a easy, performant integration, whereas additionally offering a direct income stream” mentioned Pääkkönen.
Scheduled to launch in March 2023, the Playken United SDK will allow builders to simply promote and generate income from wearable objects. It is going to provide gentle, simple to combine property that might be performant throughout a variety of cellular units.
“These wearables function units of stats that sport designers can map as energy ups for his or her video games. This offers gamers an incentive to purchase and transfer their Playken avatar sport to sport” mentioned Will Luton, Chief Product Officer.
Additional data relating to the SDK might be popping out within the subsequent few months. These can try the corporate’s Discord server and Twitter.
