Today I’m here to talk to you about what my future holds. Where I am going in life.

This is going to be a personal piece as I’m not speaking in the capacity of my role at Scatter, but just as a man living a life.

It’s been two weeks or so now, and I am happy to announce that I have come to an understanding with Ultra that most of my time would be best spent helping them build what they are building.

This doesn’t mean Scatter doesn’t move forward, as Nathan is still on it and pumping out updates, with a special focus on RIDL and FIO, and our new Simple Scatter interface.

When Nathan is ready, he’ll also be joining the Ultra team, and I’m sure he will write a bit more about why we are joining and what we hope to achieve there.

There are plans in motion to make sure that Scatter lives on as a community funded and developed platform. We will release a follow up article shortly that goes into deeper detail.

But, why?

It’s hard to talk about what we have seen at Ultra which makes us so interested in joining them because it is all confidential and I can’t provide any real details other than what you can see at Ultra.io or on their Medium for now.

But, let me tell you this: the vision is outstanding. It has so taken my attention that I feel like a young man about to start his first big project. The first thing that he thinks really matters.

That is how I feel about the products that Ultra are building.

These products give me shivers because I know that it will be a genuine, permanent shift of where the floor of the market expects to be going into the future. Never again will we, as a market, go back to our previous expectations of ownership and economy.

I want to be part of that. I want my focus to be there, because I believe that there has to be a sea-change in the rights of the owners. The individual matters. You and me matter.

Hand in hand with that go the rights of the game developer to make ends meet. The plans that Ultra have, and the tools that they want to provide developers, are revolutionary. They level the playing field and hopefully will make it easier to make a great living off of the Ultra platform, even for small indie developers.

What you own online should be up to you. I believe that we have to take back the rights that have been taken from all of us and build a more egalitarian digital society.

Anyone that is paying attention knows that gaming is the future of entertainment. It is slowly merging into “visual storytelling with you as the master”. Games have depth now, and they try to entertain in new, exciting ways. Now I get to be part of that industry and it feels like a giddy dream come true.

Ultra, here I come.

— Rami James | Telegram: https://t.me/farfaraway