Solana blockchain Archives - Play to Earn https://www.playtoearn.online/tag/solana-blockchain/ NFT games, play-to-earn, GameFi and blockchain entertainment Thu, 29 Jun 2023 19:13:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 https://www.playtoearn.online/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-logo-500x500-1-1-32x32.png Solana blockchain Archives - Play to Earn https://www.playtoearn.online/tag/solana-blockchain/ 32 32 Mini Royale: Nations Launches Season 5 https://www.playtoearn.online/2023/06/29/mini-royale-nations-launches-season-5/ Thu, 29 Jun 2023 19:13:04 +0000 https://www.playtoearn.online/?p=40946 Mini-Royale launches into Season 5 of their browser-based FPS with a new clan wars format, new heroes, new weapons, new missions, a new battle pass, and even a new map editor! With the nautical theme of Pirate Booty, expect to see some interesting hero and weapon skins this season! Avast matey! It’s time to start […]

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Mini-Royale launches into Season 5 of their browser-based FPS with a new clan wars format, new heroes, new weapons, new missions, a new battle pass, and even a new map editor! With the nautical theme of Pirate Booty, expect to see some interesting hero and weapon skins this season!

Avast matey! It’s time to start earning nautical themed character and weapon skins with Pirate Booty, the latest seasonal content for Mini-Royale! You can jump right into Mini-Royale, the browser-based FPS, and start playing, no NFTs required. Though there are certain perks that come with owning items from the latest season.

Mini-Royale is free to play — no purchase required. But advancing through the battle pass is helped tremendously by owning and staking an NFT hero from the current season. Also, there are a number of missions that require owning a hero or weapon skin from the latest season.

Seasons in Mini-Royale revolve around owning and minting character and weapon skins from the latest release. These are created from Shards, which can be acquired in-game from battle pass and mission rewards, or purchased via a ‘Pirate Booty Drop‘. In this drop, players buy boxes which contain a random selection and rarity of Shards. Gather enough Shards of the same rarity and same hero and you can combine them into a usable game item that can also be minted into an NFT! For those who want to skip the assembly part, Heroes are available for purchase from other players on Magic Eden.

What else is new in Season 5?

Mini-Royale has also added a PvE, Campaign mode, as a way to introduce new players to the game. The Campaign mode gives players certain objectives to achieve when playing. Completing these objectives earns Star points, which unlock new objectives and chapters. Along the way players also earn Orbs and Shards.

In addition, a new map hits the game servers. Called Paradisa, this is the first map that was designed by someone outside of the Faraway team. Expect to see more maps in the near future as Mini-Royale plans to open up map-making to everyone!

Recently, Mini-Royale announced their creator program. This program allows players to create custom, 3D skins for the game and sell them to other players. A few weeks ago they made another creator based announcement. This time about maps. Partnering with a company called Hiber, Mini-Royale wants users to create their own maps with the Hiber 3D Editory and import them into the game. The Hiber3D editor already comes loaded with hundreds of objects and textures. It features a drag and drop building system, with the goal of making map creation accessible for everyone.

Faraway is working with Hiber to create a seamless import system that will allow players to create maps specifically for Mini Royale. Expect this functionality to become available sometime soon!

Season 5 battle pass
Season 5 battle pass

What is Mini-Royale?

Mini-Royale is a web-based FPS running on the Solana blockchain created by a company called Faraway. It is free to play, though owners of Premium NFTs receive bonus points towards their Battle Pass ranking with every match. The game runs in a web browser and supports both random, and public games, as well as private matches.

Mini-Royale offers a few different game modes such as Team Deathmatch, Battle Royale, and Capture the Flag. Team size maxes out at five players, though you can also play with fewer. PvP matches are generally quick and action-packed. Mini-Royale includes leaderboards and clan (guild) competitions.

Players earn character experience, gain battle pass points, and level up their items by playing the game. Along the way, they also earn special weapons and avatar skins. Some of these can be minted to the blockchain as NFTs once they’ve been leveled up. Mini-Royale currently only accepts the Phantom wallet for wallet connections. The team continually works on improving the gameplay as well as expanding and upgrading the game visuals and maps.

Mini-Royale recently added the ability for users to create and monetize their own avatar skins, and plans to add map creation to their set of user tools as well.

To learn more about Mini-Royale, visit their website, follow them on Twitter, and join their Discord.

Paradisa, the newest map in Mini-Royale
Paradisa, the newest map in Mini-Royale

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Star Atlas to Close Escape Velocity and Sell Mining Ships https://www.playtoearn.online/2023/06/29/star-atlas-to-close-escape-velocity-and-sell-mining-ships/ Thu, 29 Jun 2023 17:13:15 +0000 https://www.playtoearn.online/?p=41071 The end approaches for Escape Velocity. This mini-game from Star Atlas that was a combination tech test and means for players to gather game resources without owning a Mining Claim. But never fear resource-gatherers, for Star Atlas is introducing a new, mining class ship that can gather resources and earn ATLAS tokens! On July 7th, […]

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The end approaches for Escape Velocity. This mini-game from Star Atlas that was a combination tech test and means for players to gather game resources without owning a Mining Claim. But never fear resource-gatherers, for Star Atlas is introducing a new, mining class ship that can gather resources and earn ATLAS tokens!

On July 7th, 2023, Star Atlas will close down their Escape Velocity game. Escape Velocity is a browser-based moving and scanning mini-game that uses the Solana blockchain for all of its calculations. By scanning for loot, players can find Star Atlas resources and even NFTs such as Ships and Mining Claims!

Escape Velocity is free to play, though it does require a refundable deposit of 1000 ATLAS tokens. The Star Atlas team also announced that they discovered a few players using bots to play the game for them. These players will have their rewards capped. Any extra resource rewards they accumulated will be distributed to all the other players who engaged with Escape Velocity.

Going forward, anyone who wishes to gather Star Atlas resources will need with a Mining Claim. Alternatively, players can pick up one of the new Mining Ships that were just announced!

resources earned in Escape Velocity
resources earned in Escape Velocity

Armstrong Mining Ships

As they close down Escape Velocity, Star Atlas opens a new sale for Mining Ships, vehicles dedicated to extracting resources.

We don’t have any details yet about how many resources owners can expect to extract. But we do know that they can be staked either in Faction Fleet to earn ATLAS tokens, or in Faction Claims to earn resources. Faction Fleet and Faction Claims are pre-launch staking systems that encourage players to hold onto their Star Atlas NFTs in exchange for being able to harvest tokens and resources.

These new mining ships come in three sizes, small, medium, and capital. The smallest option, the Armstrong IMP Tip, has a total supply of 10,200 and costs $860 USDC ($430 USDC if you make an early purchase)

And, as seems to be the standard practice for Star Atlas, the ultimate mining ship, the legendary, capital-class, Armstrong IMP, costs quite a pretty penny. $27,500 USDC to be exact! Though, if you manage to pick one up in the first tranche, you can acquire this ship for a mere $13,750.

For all of the mining ships, Star Atlas plans to sell them in three groups, or tranches. The first 30% of each ship type will be in the first group and sell for a 50% discount. The second 30% sells for the base price, while the final 40% of the supply will cost purchasers an extra 10% premium on the base price.

Mining ships should be available in the official Star Atlas marketplace later today.

small mining ship
small mining ship

What is Star Atlas?

The year is 2620. Three factions, MUD, ONI, and USTUR, exist in an uneasy truce across the galaxy. Players explore unknown systems, delve into rocks and earth to acquire resources to build, expand, and conquer! Will you be a fighter, testing your mettle in the arena games? Or an explorer in the depths of space, far beyond the reach of any help? Perhaps a shipwright, creating objects of beauty and technological prowess? Maybe you have bolder ambitions, ones of control and rulership? Well all of these roles and more are open to you in Star Atlas, the space MMO currently in development on the Solana blockchain.

Star Atlas aims to build a galactic, space opera MMO where players control the markets and dictate the ebb and flow of goods and products. The rise or fall of various factions will happen because of player actions, not a directed script.

Along with this comes the expected space exploration and combat, and also land ownership, player governance, and graphic novels. Land owners can build a variety of structures, which allow for mining, production and research. The game taxes land plots to encourage players to use the land rather than sit on it.

Players can currently download the Star Atlas showroom which allows players to roam around a planetary base, engage in races, and try flying various ships.

To learn more about Star Atlas, Visit their website, follow them on Twitter, and join their Discord.

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Synergy Land Opens Public Playtest https://www.playtoearn.online/2023/06/16/synergy-land-opens-public-playtest/ Sat, 17 Jun 2023 01:33:00 +0000 https://www.playtoearn.online/?p=40548 Another new, public playtest for Synergy Land opens this weekend, with prizes for those who can complete the most quests! And this farming, crafting, and dungeon clearing certainly has plenty of quests to go around! Synergy Land opens a public playtest, available to everyone, with some prizes for those who complete the most quests! The […]

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Another new, public playtest for Synergy Land opens this weekend, with prizes for those who can complete the most quests! And this farming, crafting, and dungeon clearing certainly has plenty of quests to go around!

Synergy Land opens a public playtest, available to everyone, with some prizes for those who complete the most quests! The playtest started earlier today (June 16th) and runs until June 19th, 10 am UTC.

Special prizes go out to the top 10 players. A rare Loot Box for places six through ten, an Epic Loot Box plus 50 SNG tokens for fourth and fifth place, a Legendary Loot Box and 100 SNG tokens for second and third, and a Unique Loot Box plus 300 SNG tokens for the player who can complete the most quests during the weekend. And for those who can’t make it into the top 10 list, an additional 30 Common Loot Chests will be raffled off to random players. Emails will be sent out to the winners on June 21st.

The game is free to play and available from the website, or via the Elixir Games app. Synergy Land features a series of tutorial quests to help introduce players to the game.

What is Synergy Land?

Synergy Land sees players starting out as owners of their own private, floating island where a helpful merchant is ready to guide them through rebuilding the place and turning it into a thriving community. Players farm crops, place buildings, craft, feed their works, and all of that sort of town-building stuff. Synergy Land includes a wide variety of crops and craftable items. The interactions between the various crafting stations and farming grow increasingly complex as you move up the ladder of item crafting. Luckily, the game provides a continuous stream of quests to introduce new buildings and features.

But all of this is just a springboard for the real adventure, Diablo-style dungeon explorations! Complete with skill trees, equipment, bosses, and everything else you would expect. It does take a while to get there though, as players must slog through rebuilding their town first.

One interesting twist with the game is that Synergy Land plans to sell Boss NFTs. Players who own Boss NFTs can upgrade them and receive a payout every time their Boss defeats player characters! Synergy Land will also include Pets, a PvP arena, an in-game, player marketplace, and more!

Synergians are sort of the Genesis NFT for Synergy Land. They act as playable characters, provide ongoing benefits and game acces,s and can be found on a number of third party marketplaces including Magic Eden.

To learn more about Synergy Land, visit their website, follow them on Twitter, and join their Discord.

getting started in Synergy Land
getting started in Synergy Land

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Star Atlas Releases Major Showroom Update https://www.playtoearn.online/2023/06/03/star-atlas-releases-major-showroom-update/ Sat, 03 Jun 2023 21:00:13 +0000 https://www.playtoearn.online/?p=39926 Star Atlas releases a major update to their Showroom, bringing bigger arena battles, more ships to fly, a racing simulation, and even jetpacks! Though the Showroom represents only one part of one station in the game universe, Star Atlas is already packing it full of features! This is official release 2.1 of the Star Atlas […]

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Star Atlas releases a major update to their Showroom, bringing bigger arena battles, more ships to fly, a racing simulation, and even jetpacks! Though the Showroom represents only one part of one station in the game universe, Star Atlas is already packing it full of features!

This is official release 2.1 of the Star Atlas showroom. And this update is a big one, with something for every type of player!

The Star Atlas Showroom is a downloadable app (available only for Windows machines at the moment). You can download it at https://play.staratlas.com/. To access the Showroom, you will need a game key, which you can acquire in two ways. You can either stake one or more ships in the SCORE Program for a week or stake tokens to spawn a ship in Escape Velocity, the web-based resource hunting, mini-game. You can redeem the code at https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/redeem

And you don’t need to own a Star Atlas ship to try these features out. The game provides two, free ships to play with, which rotate every three days. These include ships from across the spectrum, even large vessels.

Whats New in Showroom 2.1?

The biggest feature of this update is probably the Volant Station Racing Track. This track allows players to test drive 49 different ships and engage in competitions for the fastest times around the track! To help players familiarize themselves with all aspects of driving in Star Atlas, this race also includes weapons and items that can be found during the race. The ships handle differently based on their ship type and stats. So test driving them all to find the perfect fit for you might be in order!

Future updates will bring additional racing competitions.

race for glory and fun!
race for glory and fun!

The Galactic Marketplace has now been integrated into the Showroom. Players can purchase ships directly from within the app and immediately access them in-game!

And for those who are more interested in hanging around the station, jetpacks are now available to all players, making traversing the area a cinematic breeze! And supposedly, there are even some secret spots around the expanded station. Players can take screenshots of what they find, which will feed into upcoming photography contests! Each contest will have specific rules, so you’ll have to wait until they are announced for details. But we do know that the winners of these competitions will have their photographic artwork minted as NFTs, which the winner can choose to sell or give away! That’s kind of cool and a great way to engage the community!

The combat arena has also received an update. Players can now summon ships up to large size and try to fend off up to twelve waves of NPC enemies. The Star Atlas team has revised the arena itself to make the challenge more interesting and dynamic.

And finally, we have new ‘Experimental Modes’ available. The details of these are left for the players to discover. But the team says that these experiences are designed to provide sneak peeks into the future of Star Atlas!

screenshot from the new Arena
screenshot from the new Arena

What is Star Atlas?

The year is 2620. Three factions, MUD, ONI, and USTUR, exist in an uneasy truce across the galaxy. Players explore unknown systems, delve into rocks and earth to acquire resources to build, expand, and conquer! Will you be a fighter, testing your mettle in the arena games? Or an explorer in the depths of space, far beyond the reach of any help? Perhaps a shipwright, creating objects of beauty and technological prowess? Maybe you have bolder ambitions, ones of control and rulership? Well all of these roles and more are open to you in Star Atlas, the space MMO currently in development on the Solana blockchain.

Star Atlas aims to build a galactic, space opera MMO where players control the markets and dictate the ebb and flow of goods and products. The rise or fall of various factions will happen because of player actions, not a directed script.

Along with this comes the expected space exploration and combat, and also land ownership, player governance, and graphic novels. Land owners can build a variety of structures, which allow for mining, production and research. The game taxes land plots to encourage players to use the land rather than sit on it.

Star Atlas has put together a number of previews and mini-games around their game features which are already available for play.

To learn more about Star Atlas, Visit their website, follow them on Twitter, and join their Discord.

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Play to Earn with Eternal Dragons via PvP and PvE Leaderboards https://www.playtoearn.online/2023/05/29/play-to-earn-with-eternal-dragons-via-pvp-and-pve-leaderboards/ Mon, 29 May 2023 16:26:51 +0000 https://www.playtoearn.online/?p=39763 Eternal Dragons adds new play and earn opportunities to their alpha with weekly PvE Quests and a Daily PvP leaderboard. Players can play and earn USDC, Eternium tokens, and even Dragon Eggs! Play and earn takes a more prominent seat in the land of Eternal Dragons with the introduction of weekly leaderboards for PvE Quests, […]

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Eternal Dragons adds new play and earn opportunities to their alpha with weekly PvE Quests and a Daily PvP leaderboard. Players can play and earn USDC, Eternium tokens, and even Dragon Eggs!

Play and earn takes a more prominent seat in the land of Eternal Dragons with the introduction of weekly leaderboards for PvE Quests, and daily leaderboards for those engaging in PvP combat!

Eternal Dragons is now running a weekly PvE quest event with rewards for the top 100 players. Each quest offers a specific arena challenge, leaving it up to the players to figure out how to progress as far as they can. The current PvE quest, Dust Storm, features increasingly strong AI teams of Tanker and Slayer enemies and runs until June 2nd. The top two players win Eternium and Descendant Egg NFTs while the rest of the top 100 earn tokens based on their final placement.

gameplay options in the Eternal Dragons alpha
gameplay options in the Eternal Dragons alpha

For the PvP players, Eternal Dragons introduced a new, daily PvP leaderboard. These leaderboards reward the top 10 players every day with USDC tokens. Eternal Dragons also runs longer format tournaments, having just recently completed their second round that included nearly $10,000 USDC in the prize pool!

Eternal Dragons is still in alpha (Alpha 0.2 to be exact), but it is free, open to all, and available to play via webpage or as an app on Android devices. Even though this is an uto-battler, there is quite a bit of depth to assembling your team. And since the game is free to play, this is an excellent play and earn opportunity for anyone who likes competitive strategy games!

And for the true Eternal Dragons fans, the team is hosting a convention in Hamburg, Germany on July 1st!

fight for glory and loot!
fight for glory and loot!

What is Eternal Dragons?

Eternal Dragons is an eSport, auto-battler game built on the Solana blockchain with Dragons as combat units. With numerous different classes, position-based abilities, and elemental affinities, Eternal Dragons is sure to offer plenty of room for different strategies and team builds. All units have basic stats of hit points, elemental power (magic damage), and physical power (physical damage), though Dragons tend to be stronger than their human counterparts.

In addition, units in Eternal Dragons have a number of other attributes that affect their combat abilities. First each has a default skill. This is the basic, and most often used skill for that Dragon. It can be an attack, heal, buff/debuff, or even some combination. Units also have prime stats they prefer. This will matter when players add items to units, as matching items to prime stats will provide better combat value. Dragons also have Skill Sets and Class Skills. Skill Set is a collection of abilities. Only Dragons with matching Skill Sets can use those abilities. And, as you might guess, Class Skills are specific to certain Dragon Classes.

Also, each Dragon class has certain other classes that it enjoys pairing with. These are known as “neighboring dragons”. Neighboring Dragons share Skill Sets. And they will tend to have class skills and abilities that harmonize well together. Dragons also receive bonuses from sharing affinities with teammates. Each unit has an associated affinity such as Earth, Air, or Void.

There is definitely a lot of strategic decision making involved in the game!

To learn more about Eternal Dragons, visit their website, follow them on Twitter, and join their Discord chat!

purchasing units in Eternal Dragons
purchasing units in Eternal Dragons

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Create and Earn with Mini-Royale https://www.playtoearn.online/2023/05/11/create-and-earn-with-mini-royale/ Fri, 12 May 2023 03:18:19 +0000 https://www.playtoearn.online/?p=38364 Mini-Royale brings a new create and earn system to their user base. You don’t even need to be a player. Anyone with the eye and skill to create cool, custom skins can earn money by selling them in-game! It’s the time for modders in Mini-Royale as they open up a new create and earn system. […]

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Mini-Royale brings a new create and earn system to their user base. You don’t even need to be a player. Anyone with the eye and skill to create cool, custom skins can earn money by selling them in-game!

It’s the time for modders in Mini-Royale as they open up a new create and earn system. This system allows users to create custom skins for the game’s characters and weapons, and receive a percentage of the sales income!

Getting paid as a modder is not always easy in the world of regular gaming. But web3 gaming is breaking those old molds in many ways. And one of them is the monetization of user created content. No longer do modders need to set up a Patreon and ask for donations. Now they can easily receive a rightful portion of the sales made with their creations!

Faraway, the parent company of the Mini-Royale game, opens up the first phase of their Creator system. This system will expand over time, but for now, creations are limited to textures (skins) for existing Season 4 characters and weapons from Mini-Royale.

 The creator system is open to everyone. Anyone can download the character pack, create their own textures, and submit them for acceptance. Creators who have their content accepted will receive 50% of the SOL spent for their items!

Creators can also apply to become a Sponsored Creator once they have five approved skins in the marketplace. Sponsored Creators can get their creations listed on the official Faraway Marketplace (coming soon) for greater exposure. And they can also open their own, personalized Storefront and receive 90% of the sales made there! In addition, Sponsored Creators receive a guaranteed income of $250 USDC each month! However, they can’t just sit back and count their free money. Sponsored Creators must maintain an output of at least 10 approved creations every month.

Read the official creation guide for more details. You can download the files and submit entries on the Faraway site.

create Custom skins for Season 4 Heroes
create Custom skins for Season 4 Heroes

Where do I find these custom skins?

For now these custom skins are only available via the in-game character page. Select a Season 4 item in your inventory, and at the bottom will be the various options available.

Farway also plans to build the Farway Shop, a web-based marketplace where creators can customize a storefront to promote their creations.

What is Mini-Royale?

Mini-Royale is a web-based FPS running on the Solana blockchain. It is free to play, though owners of Premium NFTs receive bonus points towards their Battle Pass ranking with every match. The game runs in a web browser and supports both random, and public games, as well as private matches.

Mini-Royale offers a few different game modes such as Team Deathmatch, Battle Royale, and Capture the Flag. Team size maxes out at five players, though you can also play with fewer. PvP matches are generally quick and action-packed. Mini-Royale includes leaderboards and clan (guild) competitions.

Players earn character experience, gain battle pass points, and level up their items by playing the game. Along the way, they also earn special weapons and avatar skins. Some of these can be minted to the blockchain as NFTs once they’ve been leveled up. Mini-Royale currently only accepts the Phantom wallet for wallet connections. The team continually works on improving the gameplay as well as expanding and upgrading the game visuals and maps.

To learn more about Mini-Royale, visit their website, follow them on Twitter, and join their Discord.

Mini-Royale screenshot
Mini-Royale screenshot

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Everseed Opens New Demo https://www.playtoearn.online/2023/05/06/everseed-opens-new-demo/ Sat, 06 May 2023 15:51:28 +0000 https://www.playtoearn.online/?p=38701 After a long period of quiet since their last playtest, Everseed drops a surprise release of the latest version of their gameplay demo. Known as the Path of Radiance, the latest Everseed demo brings us a new interface, new maps, new creatures, new plants, and a new upgrade system! So there is plenty to experience, […]

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After a long period of quiet since their last playtest, Everseed drops a surprise release of the latest version of their gameplay demo.

Known as the Path of Radiance, the latest Everseed demo brings us a new interface, new maps, new creatures, new plants, and a new upgrade system! So there is plenty to experience, even for those who have played in the previous demos.

This demo game is still only open to those who hold Ranger or Plant NFTs. Rangers are the more expensive of the two NFT types, but players can pick up an Everseed Plant for as low as 0.8 SOL (~$18 USD). Once you have an NFT in your wallet, you can access the demo at https://www.everseed.com/

new front page for the Everseed demo
new front page for the Everseed demo

This latest demo brings a number of new features to the game. First off, we have a new interface. It’s still very basic, but definitely a step up from the extreme minimalism of the previous demos. In addition, there are new Plants and new Monsters to fight. The new plants include a fire spitting plant and another that makes new stream tiles.

Also, there is now a new layer of strategic decision making when placing defenses. Aside from watering, players can now upgrade their plants via a system called Radiance. This system allows players to spend their energy on picking one of two perk selections for the plants. The perks are based on the Plant type and can be things such as more damage, greater range, that sort of thing. Each Plant can be given up to two of these upgrades.

The new Everseed demo includes a Shop, and players receive Gems when completing a map, but neither of these features have any use at the moment.

One downgrade for this demo is that players no longer get to choose their Pet companions. Instead they are auto-assigned. Hopefully this feature will return in the next demo. Until then, may your gardens grow lush and tall!

screenshot from latest Everseed demo
screenshot from latest Everseed demo

Everseed Demo Gameplay

While the larger Everseed world will feature exploration and other such stuff, the gameplay for the demos focuses on the tower defense game, where players use plants to defend against waves of incoming blighted beasts. But Everseed offers a bit more strategy than most tower defense games. The creeps don’t have set paths they follow. Instead, they take the shortest route they can to your base. Players have a mostly free choice about where to place their plants (towers), though some terrain cannot be built on. So, as the waves progress, players end up creating their own, customized gauntlet of doom for the creep waves.

Players have limited Energy to spend each round. So choosing between placing new plants, revealing hidden terrain, and watering (leveling up plants) requires some thought and planning. And since watering is an area of effect ability, finding ways to group your plants together for maximum efficiency can be important as well.

Players also choose a pet Companion to help them. Pets can move freely before the round starts, block creep pathing, and have a special ability or two.

To learn more about Everseed, visit their website, follow them on Twitter, and join their Discord.

Everseed social hub

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Customize Your Genopets With Augments https://www.playtoearn.online/2023/04/29/customize-your-genopets-with-augments/ Sat, 29 Apr 2023 16:59:15 +0000 https://www.playtoearn.online/?p=38348 Players of Genopets have been crafting Augments for some time. But now, at long last, players can use those Augments to customize their pet’s appearance — including tail, mane, color, and more! Genopets takes another step forward in Phase 2 of their game development with the addition of Augment equipping. Genopets owners are no longer […]

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Players of Genopets have been crafting Augments for some time. But now, at long last, players can use those Augments to customize their pet’s appearance — including tail, mane, color, and more!

Genopets takes another step forward in Phase 2 of their game development with the addition of Augment equipping. Genopets owners are no longer stuck with the default look for their pets. Now they can use a variety of Augments to change the appearance of their pet, from various body parts to even the color!

More About Augments

If players don’t own any Augment NFTs, Genopets provides everyone with a few, free, starter Augments that are account bound. Players who do own Augment NFTs can transfer them into and out of the game via the Genopets website.

Unfortunately, there is no fitting room option, so the Augments just get equipped when selected. Augments can be swapped once attached, but not removed directly. So if you only have a single item of a specific part, once you equip it, you can’t remove it! Also, Coloring Crystals, are burned when used. Which kind of sucks when there is no warning and no preview! Hopefully these issues will be fixed soon.

Augments are made by players via Habitats. Players need to use Crystals (also acquired from Habitats) and KI or GENE tokens to craft Augments. When creature battles are introduced in a future update, Augments will provide extra combat moves for the pet.

Augments receipes
Augments receipes

In addition to equippable Augments, Genopets also introduced a new, daily step tracking chart, and the Genodex, an in-app compendium of every Genopet in the game. This lets players easily see other people’s Genopets and provides a place for everyone to show off their fancy Augments!

Up next for Genopets to finish out phase 2 are turn-based, PvP mini-games, and a system where players can earn rewards by completing challenges. I imagine this will be tasks such as walk X miles this week and things like that.

What is Genopets?

Genopets is a free-to-play, move-to-earn game built on the Solana blockchain. When using the Genopets app, players collect steps while walking. They convert those steps into Energy, and then use that Energy to level up their Pet or exchange for KI tokens. KI tokens are the main currency in Genopets and used to craft Crystals, upgrade Pets, and maintain Habitats.

Genopets visually change as they level up. Higher level Pets also offer a better step to Energy conversion rate. Genopets recently introduced new level-based Energy conversion system that greatly reduced the amount of Energy generated by players. Especially those with low level Genopets.

Genopets features a number of NFTs, as well as the new style ‘SFTs’ for stackable resources. The main NFTs are Genesis Genopets and Habitats. SFT Resources include Raw Crystals, Refined Crystals, Terraform Seeds, and Pet Augments. Pet Augments are used to customize the Genopets.

Genopets is currently in closed beta, though finding an invitation code is not difficult.

Visit the Genopets website, follow them in Twitter, and join their Discord server to learn more about this move to earn game.

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Play and Earn with Escape Velocity from Star Atlas https://www.playtoearn.online/2023/04/27/play-and-earn-with-escape-velocity-from-star-atlas/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 18:57:36 +0000 https://www.playtoearn.online/?p=38366 Star Atlas unveils a new play and earn mini-game / test event called Escape Velocity. This game sees players moving around a grid map, searching for treasures which can include everything from basic resources up to a legendary ship! A new play and earn event comes to Star Atlas with a game called Escape Velocity. […]

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Star Atlas unveils a new play and earn mini-game / test event called Escape Velocity. This game sees players moving around a grid map, searching for treasures which can include everything from basic resources up to a legendary ship!

A new play and earn event comes to Star Atlas with a game called Escape Velocity.

In order to participate in this test event, players must lockup 1000 ATLAS tokens (current cost ~$3) to spawn a ship. These tokens are fully refundable when the player chooses to despawn their ship.

Escape Velocity screenshot
Escape Velocity screenshot

Escape Velocity

In Escape Velocity, players move ships around a grid map and scan for treasures. Each grid point represents a star system and also equates to a cartesian coordinate on the Solana blockchain. Some squares hold star systems, but this is just a graphical effect at the moment — it has no effect on gameplay.

Star Atlas says that treasures spawn randomly and stay until found. The exact spawning mechanism is secret, though supposedly the number of players and the amount of game activity can effect the spawn rate.

Warping and Scanning both have a separate, 30 second cooldown. And though it’s fun to find things, the actual gameplay becomes tedious pretty quickly. Especially since every warp and scan requires a wallet transaction. I can see this game being filled with bots very quickly. In fact, it seems kind of perfectly suited for automation!

But the potential to score some nice NFT loot, including Stake Claims and even a Fimbul BYOS Tankship (a Legendary ship that would cost $97,500 USD if you wanted to buy it!) is sure to draw in plenty of players.

This demo is a pretty cool way to showcase your tech, get players involved, and also reward them with game resources. You can join and play now at https://sage.staratlas.com/

potential loot that can be found in Escape Velocity
potential loot that can be found in Escape Velocity

Gather Resources with Claim Stakes

Aside from playing Escape Velocity, Star Atlas players can also accumulate resources with Claim Stakes. Eventually, Claim Stakes will need to actually be placed on land areas in-game, but for now, owners can stake them on the Star Atlas website and receive a passive income of food, ammunition, fuel, and toolkits.

Players can purchase common level Claim Stakes for as low as $30 USD, but the price goes up quite quickly for higher rarities.

This is the second passive staking phase for Star Atlas. They also allow ship owners to earn ATLAS tokens by pledging their ships to support one of the three main factions.

What is Star Atlas?

The year is 2620. Three factions, MUD, ONI, and USTUR, exist in an uneasy truce across the galaxy. Players explore unknown systems, delve into rocks and earth to acquire resources to build, expand, and conquer! Will you be a fighter, testing your mettle in the arena games? Or an explorer in the depths of space, far beyond the reach of any help? Perhaps a shipwright, creating objects of beauty and technological prowess? Maybe you have bolder ambitions, ones of control and rulership? Well all of these roles and more are open to you in Star Atlas, the space MMO currently in development on the Solana blockchain.

Star Atlas aims to build a galactic, space opera MMO where players control the markets and dictate the ebb and flow of goods and products. The rise or fall of various factions will happen because of player actions, not a directed script.

Along with this comes the expected space exploration and combat, and also land ownership, player governance, and graphic novels. Land owners can build a variety of structures, which allow for mining, production and research. Land plots are taxed to encourage players to use the land rather than sitting on it.

To learn more about Star Atlas, Visit their website, follow them on Twitter, and join their Discord.

Star Atlas banner

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The Eternal Dragons Alpha Goes Mobile https://www.playtoearn.online/2023/04/26/the-eternal-dragons-alpha-goes-mobile/ Wed, 26 Apr 2023 13:38:34 +0000 https://www.playtoearn.online/?p=38282 Currently still in alpha testing, Eternal Dragons expands their potential playerbase with a new mobile app release! With play and earn leaderboards already available in this strategic auto-battler, the new mobile version may result in a noticeable increase in the number of active players. Web3 gaming companies continue to make moves to claim their share […]

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Currently still in alpha testing, Eternal Dragons expands their potential playerbase with a new mobile app release! With play and earn leaderboards already available in this strategic auto-battler, the new mobile version may result in a noticeable increase in the number of active players.

Web3 gaming companies continue to make moves to claim their share of the lucrative mobile market. Eternal Dragons brings us a new mobile app, available for Android devices. You can download it here. The alpha is free to play and also runs in a browser if you don’t have an Android or don’t want to install the app.

Though still in alpha testing, Eternal Dragons features both PvE and PvP game modes, with leaderboards and prizes for both. Players can win Eternium tokens and even Descendant Eggs, which hatch into Genesis Dragons!

Eternal Dragons recently added a new Psychic Affinity to their units. Stack a team with Psychics to increase your team’s spellcasting and resistance. They also have a special upcoming Guild Tournament, complete with a new selection of Player Cards.

Guild Tournament

Eternal Dragons has a special guild tournament happening this weekend (April 29th-30th). This is an invite only tournament. Eternal Dragons selected the guilds to participate, and the guilds have already chosen their champions. However, you can still have a part in the tournament by purchasing Player Cards. Player Cards are special NFTs associated with specific players and tournaments. Holders of these cards receive a percentage of the player’s earnings during that tournament!

The players choose how to distribute their Player Cards. So they can choose to monetize them, work on building a support community, or whatever structure works with their ideas and goals as a professional eSports player.

This is a very interesting way for Eternal Dragons to build themselves up as an eSport and also provide professional players with assets they can use to further their careers.

You can look for Player Cards on Magic Eden.

competitor list for the upcoming Guild tournament
competitor list for the upcoming Guild tournament

What is Eternal Dragons

Eternal Dragons is an eSport, auto-battler game built on the Solana blockchain with Dragons as combat units. With numerous different classes, position-based abilities, and elemental affinities, Eternal Dragons is sure to offer plenty of room for different strategies and team builds. Dragons have basic stats of hit points, elemental power (magic damage), and physical power (physical damage).

In addition, units in Eternal Dragons have a number of other attributes that affect their combat abilities. First each has a default skill. This is the basic, and most often used skill for that Dragon. It can be an attack, heal, buff/debuff, or even some combination. Units also have prime stats they prefer. This will matter when players add items to units, as matching items to prime stats will provide better combat value. Dragons also have Skill Sets and Class Skills. Skill Set is a collection of abilities. Only Dragons with matching Skill Sets can use those abilities. And, as you might guess, Class Skills are specific to certain Dragon Classes.

Also, each Dragon class has certain other classes that it enjoys pairing with. These are known as “neighboring dragons”. Neighboring Dragons share Skill Sets. And they will tend to have class skills and abilities that harmonize well together. Dragons also receive bonuses from sharing affinities with teammates. Each NFT has an associated affinity such as Earth, Air, or Void.

So there is certainly a lot to consider when making teams and playing the game!

To learn more about Eternal Dragons, visit their website, follow them on Twitter, and join their Discord chat!

Eternal Dragons gameplay screenshot
a Dragon battle in progress

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