KCON World

KCON World is a K-pop lifestyle metaverse built in Unity on the Zepeto platform. Fans use it to meet and hang out with popular K-pop artists. It has reached more than 660,000 users and holds a 92% satisfaction rating from over 9,600 users. A new version went out for each KCON tour: Los Angeles and Saudi Arabia in 2023, then Japan in 2024.

What we worked on as part of the core team:

• Several versions planned and shipped on tight deadlines, each one on time and without release bugs.
• Real-time multiplayer for characters and minigames that held up under thousands of concurrent users at peak.
• A server-authoritative backend in TypeScript for game networking, which keeps cheating down and protects in-app purchases.
• Sprint planning with the client’s project manager, so every sprint ended with a build the team could actually test.