Are you passionate about using games for wellbeing and health? Do you believe
in the transformative power of art to heal and inspire? Are you interested in
building a "metaverse" for the betterment of humanity? If so, we want to hear
from you!
At TheVerse, we're creating digital experiences (including art and games) that
enhance wellbeing. Our experiences explore calm focus, equanimity, compassion,
prosociality, empathy, and perspective-taking. We believe that art and games
have incredible potential to make us healthier, happier, and more hopeful.
We're currently seeking candidates who are passionate about art, co-creation,
community building, gaming, games for change/health/wellbeing, gamification,
transformative technology, XR (Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality), game
design/development, health and wellbeing, positive psychology, neuroscience,
Buddhism, and psychedelics.
If this sounds like you, please get in touch! We'd love to hear about your
interests and how we can work together to build a better world through art and
gaming.
### * _Web Development: *_
**We are early starge startup with lots of hats to wear:**
* Building A MetaVerse! * _Who does not want to do that! *_
* Web development intern. Build landing pages to A/B messaging and product market fit.
* Front End Development - work with web team to optimize, update, and development web offerings. Including design, development,and analytics.
* Full Stack Developer - Integrate existing algorithms including user profile functionality, recommendation engine, and content recommendation engine into web stack. Working alongside graphic designers for web design features.
* Developing front end website architecture.
* Designing user interactions on web pages.
* Creating servers and databases for functionality.
* Designing and developing APIs.
* Create databases that track and query events, calculate billing transactions and generate notification emails/nudges/reminders, and billing back end.* The applicant must be knowledgeable with the following languages: HTML, Postgress SQL, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, MySQL, & Linux.
**The Verse is an engine for the development of Game Based Therapeutics &
Social Therapeutics that shift health and consciousness**.
### * _Game Based Therapeutics: *_
* **Adventures In Breath (AiB):** Breath is fundamental to health and wellbeing, and we recognize its importance. Through collaborations with clinicians, academics, and partners, we have studied the science of breath and are creating an ecosystem of breath-based games called Adventures In Breath. These games use breath as a game mechanic, meaning that players use their breath to interact and move within the game. Each breath ritual within the game is tied to a scientifically validated breath therapeutic and is expressed through interactive mechanics and responsive design. By incorporating breath therapeutics into immersive game narratives, AiB gamifies and playifies the act of breathing, resulting in a fun and engaging way to improve overall wellbeing.
* **Karma The Six Realm Game:** Gamifying Prosociality: The Six Realms represent different states of mind or forms of existence that beings are born into based on their karma. These realms can be seen as personality types or situations in life. However, not everyone experiences the Six Realms in the same way. Journeying through the Six Realms is a journey through the mind, and our game aims to gamify this experience. Gameplay starts in the "Ladder", where a micro game calculates a player's score based on their self-interest and how they engage with prosocial scenarios. This score determines which of the Six Realms the player is born into. Each realm offers unique gameplay mechanics that explore cause and effect through prosocial interactions.
### * _Social Therapeutics: *_
WalkXR is a virtual experience that offers a unique way to experience,
explore, and learn from the collective and individual expressions of our
emotional and mental states. Our platform allows organizations, schools, and
companies to customize their training and wellness programs using the science
of prosociality, promoting empathy, prosocial behavior, and perspective-
taking. TheVerse's social therapeutics incorporate mechanisms for sharing
experiences, taking different perspectives, and engaging in prosocial
activities, facilitating learning and behavior change.
### **The Verse**
Our distributed structure enables The Verse to organize around smaller,
focused nodes of interest that incubate experimental initiatives, while the
wider network develops and organizes activities that have a broader scope. We
attract people who want to change the world by making an impact on our
individual and collective health, happiness and hope.
* We are an organization that requires highly creative and intelligent people who are looking for more. They are looking to develop, express and grow. (self-actualization).
The Verse attracts and connects makers/builders, artists, visionaries…
* They are undergraduates looking for purpose and meaning,
* They are grad students (MAs and PhDs) wanting to do more with their training and aspirations,
* They are the “dissatisfied and disillusioned” - those who have worked on Wall Street, in big tech and big media.
* They are the academics and clinicians whose work is siloed and who are looking for real world applications!
* WE RECEIVE 100+ applications per month from all over the world (Japan, NZ, India, China, Kazakhstan, +++! )
The Verse is you and me… _The Company Of The Future_
* Driven by collaboration and community.
* Validated by our ability to build digital experiences in the form of games, art, & therapeutics that shift health and consciousness.
### **What will you get working with TheVerse?**
* Opportunity: Experience building impact games and art based experiences that transform. Be part of building a MetaVerse.
* Visionary Product: Be part of a passionate and committed team that is building games and art experiences that shift health and consciousness.
* Access: TheVerse is working with a visionary group of transformative technology thinkers, innovators, entrepreneurs, gamers, neuroscientists, clinicals, academics, and artists who want to change the world.
* Training: Opportunity to work on a diverse range of projects (game dev, data analytics, product development, biz development, and community building).
* References/Recommendation
Please include your resume, and tell us what you think is interesting about
The Verse! If you do not hear from us, please be patient – we are growing
rapidly. Info about our projects @ <https://bit.ly/3BaG5Vd>. Contact
[bst@versebuilding.com](mailto:bst@versebuilding.com) for more info and/or
with any questions! We are always interested in connecting with the right
people.
Thanks.
Ben Simon-Thomas
Co-Founder
* * *
TheVerse team is 50+ entrepreneurs, artists, and game developers with
experiences and expertise (MAs & PhDs) in gaming, world building, metaverses,
build in the open, community development, health & wellbeing.
* Ben Simon-Thomas - Founder/CEO. Buddhist-leaning entrepreneur and ecosystem developer. Founded startups in the 3D space (SoundFit: 3D Scanning & ODMS: parts-on-demand), social commerce (GroupGain), worked in health-care startups and life style modification businesses (PMRI). MA in Buddhist psychology, degrees in Religious Philosophy and Language. <https://www.linkedin.com/in/bensimonthomas/>
* Anshul Pendse - Experience Design/PhD. Anshul is a world-builder, experience designer and creative technologist. With a background in feature film VFX, computer animation, interactive media and game design, Anshul builds immersive, multi-sensory virtual worlds that elicit the sense of heightened awareness, mindfulness and altered states of consciousness. <https://www.linkedin.com/in/apendse/>
* Brandon Howard -Designs and manages the software development for numerous data-driven products and applications. Managing development teams of up to 70+ across various business lines, developing mobile apps, web apps, API/SDK integrations, video games, websites, hardware products, sentiment AI and more, Brandon has developed an expertise around data that improves wellbeing. <https://www.linkedin.com/in/bcehoward/>
The Verse focuses on Video Games, Health and Wellness, Digital Health, and
Virtual Reality. Their company has offices in Los Angeles, Berkeley, and Santa
Barbara. They have a small team that's between 11-50 employees.
You can view their website at <https://versebuilding.com/> or find them on
[Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/versebuilding/) and
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/building-the-verse).
