Today, Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) Game7 and MetaMask announce HyperPlay, an open-source desktop application where interoperability is the default for Web3 games. 

HyperPlay is the world’s first Web3-native game launcher, built to make the user experience free of friction for both players and developers. The platform allows users to carry the same wallet with their NFTs, tokens and achievements into every game they play, enabling full interoperability for Web3 games.

Until now, Web3 game developers have been forced to sacrifice UX for function with no solution for adding interoperability to native games.

“With HyperPlay, developers can build the permissionless game economies they dream of,” says jacobc.eth, HyperPlay founder and Game7 core contributor. “Players can take assets between games, use them in DeFi, and follow their friends’ wallets.”

Web3 gaming can be more than secondary markets or yield farms, and HyperPlay proves that. Players can connect their wallet (MetaMask or WalletConnect) via the launcher and carry the wallet into each native desktop game they install and launch from HyperPlay. 

The game launcher supports both the Epic Games Store and GOG, making any game released through a supported store or side loaded into HyperPlay playable. Early supported titles include The Sandbox, and many more to be announced soon.

For developers HyperPlay is open source, free to build on and provides a simple API to request transactions, signatures, or any other requests possible with MetaMask. 

“The launch of HyperPlay is a significant milestone for the gaming industry,” says Taylor Monahan, Global Product Lead at MetaMask. “Gaming is one of the most popular use cases on MetaMask and this milestone is crucial as it represents the first time that players can carry their MetaMask wallet into and across desktop games.”

Game7 is a DAO on a mission to define gaming standards, fund open-source software, and make the gaming industry sustainable.