New Otherside clip teases dark backstory for Yuga Labs’ Kodas

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Bored Ape Yacht Membership creator Yuga Labs dropped a brand new teaser for its forthcoming on-line recreation Otherside on Thursday night time, which hints at a troubled backstory.

The 2-minute clip opens in a temple-like area filled with statues of Kodas — the mysterious creatures created by Yuga which reside in Otherside. It additionally included mages resembling a number of the Otherdeed land NFTs, together with mycelium, molten and botanical lands.

Blue mild trickles round these photos, however then the video zooms out to disclose an ominous purple mild surrounding and mixing with the blue. A single Koda with a sword on its again seems. It collects a number of the blue mild in a bottle.

However not sooner does it achieve this than a chaos portal opens up. The Koda runs desperately because the objects round it are sucked into the portal. A second, inexperienced chaos portal seems and, trapped between the 2, the Koda is sucked into the purple one.

It falls by the air and collapses on the bottom because the bottle rolls into the water close by. It travels with the present earlier than it’s fished out by the Bored Ape named Curtis, marking the beginning of a earlier Otherside trailer launched in Might.

What are Kodas?

Little is thought about The Kodas save for a number of cryptic hints dropped by Yuga Labs. They’re briefly talked about within the Otherside litepaper alongside one thing referred to as “The Decoupling.”

A leaked pitch deck for Otherside printed on-line in March described them because the final surviving race of celestial creatures created throughout the Massive Bang. Nonetheless, Yuga Labs co-founder Gargamel described the pitch deck as previous and outdated on Discord. 

Not a lot is thought both in regards to the function The Kodas will play within the metaverse. Some Otherdeed land NFTs comprise Kodas on their tons, and these NFTs are likely to promote for a lot increased than their non-Koda counterparts.

The tweet accompanying the video additionally hinted about one thing coming in This fall. Whereas it’s unlikely the corporate’s metaverse is prepared for rollout fairly but, it might be a sign that one other journey is upcoming. The “first journey,” an early take a look at the world for NFT holders, passed off on July 16.