Inside the minds building the OtherSide
Yuga Labs is one of the most recognizable names in web3, known for building rich, character driven digital universes. With the OtherSide metaverse, they give players a way to bring the characters they own into a shared 3D world and explore together. Their team is deeply technical, wildly imaginative, and committed to crafting digital spaces that feel alive, social, and worth returning to.
When a metaverse needs real conversation, not just text
OtherSide already had a basic global chat, but it didn’t support the deeper social behaviors that make a virtual world feel real. Players needed:
Ways to talk to friends
Privacy controls
Simple ways to build and maintain relationships.
A way to stay connected even when not logged into the full game.
Yuga Labs needed a chat foundation they could trust. Something:
Flexible enough to fit naturally inside Unreal.
Stable enough for scale.
Intuitive enough that developers wouldn’t have to reinvent messaging from scratch.
From React sample app to fully game ready social system
The engineering team started with our React sample app and shaped it into a chat experience that fit the architecture of OtherSide. They:
Used our recommended token based authentication flow.
Re themed the UI.
Built custom logic for friend requests and privacy controls.
Integrated chat so it felt native inside the 3D world.
CometChat now powers player to player conversation inside OtherSide, with plans to extend it beyond the game so users can stay connected on the go. As the experience grows, Yuga Labs expects to migrate their global chat to CometChat too, creating one unified social layer across their universe.
Throughout development, they leaned on:
CometChat documentation.
Straightforward integration patterns.
Async Slack based support.
A communication backbone built for the worlds they’re creating
With CometChat in place, Yuga Labs no longer has to maintain custom chat infrastructure. Their team can:
Move faster.
Test and iterate with less friction.
Ship social experiences that match the ambition of their world.
Players get seamless, more personal conversations. The engineering team gets a reliable system built for scale. And as Yuga Labs expands how people access OtherSide, they now have a communication backbone ready for whatever their universe becomes next.
