"EVERY COMMUNITY CAN WIN HERE": Yuga Labs' Michael Figge Says In Bound Interest In Otherside Is On The Rise As People Start To Understand Its A Platform Not A Game
- Kyle
- Aug 2
- 3 min read
While some collectors in the Web3 world seem intent on stirring up player-vs-player conflicts between communities, Yuga Labs is thinking bigger with Otherside and is on a mission to create a metaverse filled with opportunity and the tools needed so “every community can win here.”
Saturday felt like a tale of two timelines. On one hand, some danced on the Apes’ graves (even though a gold fur Ape sold for $2,350,000 USD the night before). On the other, Yuga Labs Chief Product Officer Michael Figge reminded everyone that Otherside Bubbles and Bathroom Blitz are live, another game is dropping this month, and more whales and builders, both inside and outside the ecosystem, are looking to ape in!
“Big collectors are making moves. With Bubbles, Bathroom Blitz, and Otherside Outbreak releasing this month, people are starting to understand the potential of @OthersideMeta- community built experiences,” he tweeted. “It's not just about what Yuga can make, the real story is about what everyone else can build. More in-bound interest this week than I've seen in a long time. Every community can win here. The biggest parts of what we've been working on hasn't been shown yet. Collectors who get it are doubling down with conviction.”
As the Bored Ape Gazette has previously reported, and it bears repeating, Otherside is a platform and tt features two distinct types of content. There's Mainline Otherside created by Yuga Labs, where the company defines the gameplay and rules. And Then there's ODK Otherside, built with the Otherside Development Kit, where independent developers can create their own gameplay, experiences, and mechanics without permission!
“The goal has always been to have aspects of MMORPG's. Don't get me wrong, it's NOT World of Warcraft. It's a metaverse with an onchain economy, wearables, crafting, and quests,” Garga said recently on Discord. “Plus, a flexible story like what I've talked about here regarding Soma and Chaos. There's also a Roblox-like aspect to this though. We can create our own experiences, but MANY of the most successful video games are things that come out of mods and stuff. So in the spirit of web3, we're giving holders the same assets and toolkit that we're using to build mainline Otherside to them.”
This concept of Otherside as a platform, not a game ,was first emphasized by ImprobableIO Founder and CEO Herman Narula, who’s been working alongside Yuga Labs to bring the metaverse to life since 2022.
“Otherside is not a game it’s a platform,” Narula tweeted in September 2022. “It is powered by M squared which is a network of platforms that all work together. If you own an otherdeed then as we add more worlds to M2 you get more potential people to come visit your content. It’s all stronger together.”
The first ODK built Otherside experience, Bathroom Blitz, launched last week and was developed by BAYC member CryptoVonDoom’s Command Line Gaming Studio.
It serves as a proof of concept for Yuga’s vision of a metaverse filled with user-generated content.
“My long-term vision for Otherside is to have it be the most thriving modding community essentially in crypto… where I want to bring it should be the most fun, easiest, coolest place for builders to come and create a 3D world or experience,” Garga said on March 10th 2025. “I think that’s one of the most important things for me when I think about Otherside is it’s not enough to just do the exact same thing and slap crypto rails underneath it. I want to create kinds of experiences and enable my community to make those experiences as well… I want to create scenarios where our users, everyone can build and be rewarded by a protocol that enables people to do things that you can’t do anywhere else in the world.”
As Phase One of the always on Otherside rollout continues, everyone, regardless of what NFT they hold, or even whether they have a wallet or not, is invited to ape into the swamp, experience Bubbles firsthand, or pick up a weapon and participate in Bathroom Blitz to earn loot packs and more.
For more information, visit, Yuga Labs’ Otherside website and ape into the metaverse here: https://launch.otherside.xyz/
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