CoinDesk Podcast Network Why CCP Games is Building a New Universe for EVE Frontier on Sui
Oct 8, 2025
Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, CEO of CCP Games and mastermind behind the iconic EVE Online, joins forces with Sam Blackshear, co-founder of Mysten Labs and former Facebook Libra lead. They unveil the ambitious EVE Frontier on blockchain Sui, a game focusing on player ownership and community-driven experiences. Discover how Sui's architecture supports vast real-time space battles and a dynamic economy. The duo emphasizes the importance of building a forever game and harnessing player creativity to ensure a vibrant, enduring universe.
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A New City, Not A Retrofit
- EVE Frontier is a reimagining of EVE Online built from decades of lessons and hindsight.
- CCP frames it as a new city built from different material, not a retrofit of the old game.
Sui Built For Real-Time Games
- Mysten Labs designed Sui with gaming use cases in mind, targeting realtime actions and high concurrency.
- The stack emphasizes programmability, storage, and performance so games don't wait on the chain.
Object Model Enables Horizontal Scale
- Sui uses an object-centric data model to scale horizontally like Web2 giants.
- Modeling inventories and world data as objects simplifies programming and parallelization for large games.