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Monsarrat - Can You Come Out to Play?
Monsarrat is a Los Angeles-based augmented reality game studio building what it calls the world's first Outdoor RPG. Founded by Johnny Monsarrat - who co-founded Turbine, one of the first MMO companies, later sold to Warner Bros. for $160M - the studio's demo game Landing Party spreads an entire fantasy world across any real-world park or open space instead of pinning one creature to a GPS point. Backed by seven-plus patents, a ~12-person team, and an advisory board of former PlayStation, Blizzard, Niantic, and Lucasfilm executives, Monsarrat pitches outdoor gaming as an antidote to a loneliness epidemic - a reason to walk outside and play.
Johnny Monsarrat
Johnny Monsarrat co-invented the MMO genre at Turbine in 1994 - the studio behind Asheron's Call, Lord of the Rings Online, and Dungeons & Dragons Online before Warner Bros. acquired it for $160M. Now as founder and CEO of Monsarrat, he is building Landing Party, the world's first outdoor AR roleplaying game, with 7 patents, $2.7M raised, and advisors including the former CEOs of PlayStation and Blizzard.
Linden Lab
Linden Lab is the San Francisco company behind Second Life, the user-built virtual world it launched in 2003. More than two decades on, the platform still runs a multimillion-dollar creator economy where residents design avatars, sell virtual goods, host live events and trade in Linden Dollars - a quiet, persistent metaverse that predates the word itself.