Ascenders held their land sale just last month, though it was a bit of a dissapointing turnout, with less than half of the available plots purchased. But the Ascenders team is still moving forward, releasing an alpha playtest for Ascenders Simulation, a base building game in which these land NFTs will play a vital part!

This playtest doesn’t offer any immediate rewards. And all of the player progress will be wiped before beta, which will be on the mainnet. However, the team does promise to airdrop rewards to alpha testers later based on the time and effort they put into helping test, reporting bugs, and providing feedback.

What is Ascenders Simulation?

Ascenders Simulation is a companion game to the Ascenders MMO game. Much like Illuvium Zero for Illuvium Overworld. And it features the same sort of base building, resource gathering, trading, and crafting features.

Players choose whether to side with Olympus City or Alexandria. And though this choice will affect available resources, players can still use all of their Premium Land NFTs, even if those associated with the other faction. In fact, the Land NFTs, or Premium Lands, act as an extension for the Home Land, which is the base starting point for all players. Players must clear debris, upgrade their base, unlock new features and buildings, and build a portal to access construction on their Premium Lands. Larger size land NFTs provide more options for construction and resource extraction.

Ascenders Simulation uses a currency called AGEM. AGEM is used for pretty much everything in-game. Players can sell items to the city merhcants to acquire AGEM tokens. Players will also need a variety of resources, both raw and processed, to grow and build their city.

The ultimate constructions in Ascenders Simulation are Components. Components will be needed to craft SFTs, items that can boost production of plots. Components will also have futher uses in future updates.

The playtest is scheduled to open on June 8th, 2023. You will need a land plot to participate. Plots can purchased from Open Sea for about 0.035 ETH

What is Ascenders?

Ascenders is a sci-fi / fantasy, action MMO in development on the Arbitrum blockchain. Featuring an open world experience on an alien planet where players must build up their civilization, Ascenders also offers instanced dungeons and PvP. Ascenders will focus heavily on crafting. Players won’t find ready to equip items when out adventuring. Instead they will find parts and resources which can be combined into the items.

Ascenders will include a dual token system. Their blockchain token, AGC (Ascenders Governance Council) is expected to launch in the second half of 2023. The game currency will be GC (Glow Gems).

And while the primary game is still a ways off, the team is releasing Ascenders Simulation, a base building, resource gathering game, in early summer of 2023.

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

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Ascenders brings a land mint to their playerbase, offering NFTs that will provide game utility in both the primary MMO, and a new, soon to be released land simulation game called Ascenders Simulation!

The land sale opens on May 18th and will be held on MetaDrop. A total of 6,500 NFTs are up for grabs, priced at $70 in ETH for those on the whitelist — $100 for the public sale. The sale will be on the Arbitrum network.

This sale includes a whitelist and a public portion. And if you’re not already on the whitelist, you may want to start looking around now for spots. There continue to be opportunities with various partners and collaborations. Check the Ascenders Twitter feed as well as your other favorite web3 projects for chances to win a spot on the whitelist.

What is Ascenders Simulation?

Ascenders Simulation launches in June 8th, providing a first opportunity for land owners to utilize their NFTs. Ascenders Simulation is a browser based, base building, resource gathering simulation game. Players will have a number of Building Plots to use based on their land NFT. Players without NFTs will have access to a few starting plots they can build on. When starting the game, players pick a City to ally with. This choice affects the potential resources available. In-game, players choose workers, build extractors, refineries, and fabricators, and upgrade their production potential.

This is kind of similar to Illuvium Zero, and hopefully Ascenders has similar plans to let players eventually create items that can be used in the larger, MMO game.

What is Ascenders?

Ascenders is a sci-fi / fantasy, action MMO in development on the Arbitrum blockchain. Featuring an open world experience on an alien planet where players must build up their civilization, Ascenders also offers instanced dungeons and PvP. Ascenders will focus heavily on crafting. Players won’t find ready to equip items when out adventuring. Instead they will find parts and resources which can be combined into the items.

Ascenders will include a dual token system. Their blockchain token, AGC (Ascenders Governance Council) is expected to launch in the second half of 2023. The game currency will be GC (Glow Gems).

And while the primary game is still a ways off, the team is releasing Ascenders Simulation, a base building, resource gathering game, in early summer of 2023.

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

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Players in Ascenders can try the rented NFTs before deciding to buy them. This concept would attract many players who refrain from investing in in-game NFTs. Furthermore, the lower rental price will easily allow players to try new NFT lands. On the other hand, players who already own NFT lands can lend, rent and sublease their lands on Double Protocol. In this way, Land owners can generate parallel revenue by renting out NFT assets to other players.

About Ascenders Land NFTs?

NFT lands in Ascenders are small land parcels in the Ascenders world that are close to the Seedships and can be purchased and developed by players. The NFT lands can be bought from the marketplace or earned as rewards from tournaments. They provide several utilities to land owners besides being the critical component in the economy of Ascenders. 

Land owners will receive a portion of the resources grown or processed by other players on their land. Owners can use strategic skills to build specific gameplay structures on their land that will cater to a large number of players. All NFT lands are unique and have different terrain and layout. Each plot of land has a distinct topography, including hilly grounds, forests, and plains. 

About Double Protocol

Double Protocol is an NFT rental platform for in-game and metaverse assets. The fully decentralized platform uses a dual-role NFT standard EIP-4907 that enables the separation of ownership and usage rights easily. 

The new standard introduced by Double Protocol reduces the integration costs of NFT leases for games, metaverse, and other NFT sectors. The platform supports the rental of virtual land in Decentraland and in-game assets in the GameFi project Warena. It also offers Web3 Domain Subscription alongside other web3 products.

Double Protocol raised $1.5M in a seed round led by Matrixport, Shima Capital, Youbi Capital, Red Building Capital, and LucidBlue Ventures in March this year. They also partnered with the play-to-earn Battle Royale PC game Katana Inu to develop and integrate NFT rental features for the Katana Inu ecosystem.

What is Ascenders?

Ascenders is a blockchain-based open-world game focused on building a player-driven economy. The game is built on the Avalanche blockchain and has a dual-economy system. The world of Ascenders is known as Ascension, which is a large area of diverse landscapes where players can fight, build and explore. 

The game includes NFTs of weapons, armor, skins, and resources that players can use and trade. Additionally, a player can choose among the game’s three roles: Explorer, Fighter, and Builder. 

As an Explorer players can freely explore the Ascenders world and uncover hidden lands and rare resources. As a Fighter, players have to defeat monsters inside dungeons and clear up the land before construction, and as a Builder, players can build silos and refineries to improve productivity. 

Ascenders has two in-game tokens, glow gem – the utility token, and the Ascenders Governance Council ($AGC) – the governance token.

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Land NFTs are small land parcels in the Ascenders world that are close to the Seedships and can be purchased and developed by players. The NFT lands will be available in the marketplace or earned as rewards from tournaments. They provide several utilities to land owners besides being the key component in the economy. All NFT lands are unique and have different terrain and layout. Each plot of land has a distinct topography, including hilly grounds, forests, and plains.

The Battle for Land feature will allow players to venture far into the dangerous areas of the Ascension world and compete for lands. The world of Ascension has untamed dangerous areas that players have not ventured. Players can choose to build an NFT Land in these areas; however, the difficult terrain and presence of enemies will pose a challenge for players. The Battle of Land challenge invites players to participate in the events, compete against global players, and earn an NFT land in these wild areas. The wild NFT lands will be situated far away from the center of the map and contain hidden treasures worth finding.

Benefits of owning a land

Landowners will receive a portion of the resources grown or processed by other players on their land. In addition, owners can use strategic skills to build specific gameplay structures on their land that will cater to many players. For example, it can be a massive guild hall where players can meet together or a travel portal. These developments will increase the passive income of land owners, and they can also gain automatic membership for the guilds built on their land. Landowners will also receive a permanent season pass and early access to special events.

Developing lands

Land owners can create multiple structures on their land by efficiently using a small area of land. The structures are divided into classes based on their use, for example, silos and refineries for gathering, hospitals for services, armorsmiths for weapons, and guildhalls for the community. Owners can choose what to build on their land based on what community of people they are targeting as a customer. Location and type of structure on land play an important role in building a valuable economy. From time to time, owners can upgrade structures, destroy old ones and plan on creating new ones by predicting the market economy.

What is Ascenders?

Ascenders is a a blockchain-based open-world game focused on building a player-driven economy. The game is built on Avalanche blockchain and has a dual-economy system. In addition, it is the first game to make use of Avalanche AVAX subnets. The world of Ascenders is known as Ascension, a large area of diverse landscapes where players can fight, build and explore. 

The game has NFTs of weapons, armors, skins, and resources that players can use and trade. A player can choose to be an Explorer, Fighter, or Builder. The game has two worlds Overworld and Dungeons. Players can explore and discover resources or fight with enemies before acquiring land. Ascenders have two in-game tokens, glow gem – the utility token and the Ascenders Governance Council ($AGC) – the governance token.

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Ascenders is an open-world story-driven game with a decentralized player-driven economy to deliver a new ARPG (Action Role-playing Game) experience. Built by Legendary Foundry Limited, the game is powered by the Avalanche blockchain and features a dual token economy and NFTs created by players. The Ascenders ecosystem consists of various opportunities for competition and trade. Players can choose from various play-to-earn roles and specialize in them with its challenges and resources.

If you want to learn more about the game and its various mechanics, we have published a previous article diving deep into tokenomics, gameplay, NFT use, and the roadmap ahead. This article will primarily be looking at gameplay and development as markets capitulate the play-to-earn industry suffers. 

While the game is still in the development stage, Legendary Foundry has released a comprehensive combat demo to showcase the possibilities of the game. One of the more striking aspects of Ascenders is the quality of both gameplay and graphics. Below is a screenshot from my own time playing the Ascenders combat demo.

In sharp contrast to other games in the Play to Earn genre thus far, Ascenders has the graphics and world-building to rival many traditional games. 

Gameplay Experience

Sitting down to play Ascenders was a genuinely fun experience. As of the writing of this article, the game had two major modes. The first of these was the traditional hack and slash gameplay of the player vs. an army of machines that the game has featured since mid-march. The second mode was the polar opposite: the player takes control of a robot and plays against an army of humans in a timed survival challenge. 

I had a blast playing through each of the individual modes. The team behind Ascenders has clearly made an effort to make gameplay easy and intuitive, while also being fun and addictive. The Demo featured a small and enclosed area of what will eventually be a massive open-world experience, and once the game is released in full, it seems inevitable that it will attract a significant player base. 

Events

Ascenders has also been deliberate with the organizations that they partner with. GuildFi, a major gaming guild in the crypto space, partnered with Ascenders to sponsor the Robot v. Human limited time event mentioned earlier. This partnership is only one of many, as this is the 3rd limited-time event since the initial release of the combat demo in March. 

Previous Limited-Time Events

• Easter Egg Hunt Challenge
• Rolling Robot Time Trial 
• GuildFi Survival Challenge 

Each of these events has featured a new take on the gameplay of the first combat demo. The Easter egg hunt had players collecting hidden items across the map, while the rolling Robot challenge had players jumping through rings and speeding around the map sonic style. What stands out the most from any of these events is how the Ascenders team keeps building and shipping new gameplay to their community. 

Partnerships

In addition to high-quality gameplay and consistent building, Ascenders has been building out its investor showcase. Since the Avalanche summit in March, they’ve expanded their backers and feature industry names such as:

• Paramount Capital 
• Defiance Capital
• Blizzard
• Firestorm Capital

With the help of Paramount Capital, Ascenders has raised in excess of 6 million USD to act as funding while the company works to build its core gameplay and world. With these backers, it’s unlikely that Ascenders will fail from financial issues. As crypto markets flounder, this may become essential to success for game studios. 

With the potential for a bear market looming, teams that build good products and provide for their followers and fan bases will be in the best positions for success when markets inevitably return to a bull mentality.  Ascenders plans to ship their full game in late 2023, and if the early combat demos are any indicator, there is massive potential hiding in this ecosystem. 

The combat demo and any active limited-time events are available for PC and Mac on the official Ascenders Website.  

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2021 saw a significant rise in the gaming scene and an explosion of speculation, much of which pushed gaming tokens and NFTs to all-time highs last spring. But much of that hopeful adulation, has died down, as most of these games have had not much to show and even less to actually play. But that is about to change in a significant way in 2022. And April is just a sign of what’s to come. We have a lot to cover, so let’s get too it!

Axie Infinity Origin Launch

Long the biggest name in blockchain gaming, and play to earn in particular, Axie is near to releasing a major overhaul of their game. Known as Origin, this release brings a slew of new abilities, a revamped combat system, and a new free to play system.

Delayed due to a recent hack on their Ronin chain, expect to be able to play Axie Origin on April 7th.
Read more about the Axie Inifinty Origin launch week here.

Drunk Robots IDO

Though IDOs seem to have fallen off in popularity, here’s you chance to join one for Drunk Robots. The primary currency for Drunk Robots, $METAL, goes up for IDO sale on April 7th. Three launchpads, Liquidifty, Gamefi, and Trustpad will all provide opportunities for users to get in on the initial token price of $0.01. Drunk Robots and its tokens live on the Binance Chain.

Read more about the Drunk Robots IDO here.

Sunflower Land Launch

Notorious for bringing the Polygon network to a crawl, Sunflower Farmers is relaunching and rebranding as Sunflower Land. Their contracts have all been rewritten to close coding loopholes and try and discourage botting. The new game will begin with a slow rollout, adding new features over time. Expect to see the initial launch on April 7th.

Read more about Sunflower Land here.

Ascenders Demo and Combat Challenge

Offering a pretty sweet incentive to get involved with the Avalanche blockchain, Ascenders, an action RPG, launches a free to play version alongside a one month challenge for over one million $AGC token in prizes. Players can download the demo game and try out the combat challenge. Those with the top 100 high scores at the end of the month with $AGC, governance tokens for Ascenders.

Learn more about Ascenders and their Combat Challenge here.

Metashooter Early Alpha

Hunt virtual animals for fun and profit in Metashooter! Running on the Cardano blockchain, Metashooter features its own token, NFTs, and land ownership. Get ready to try out this hunt to earn game as they bring us a first look and early alpha sometime in April.

Genesis Worlds Mint

Genesis Worlds brings us their next set of Mining Claims. Each Mining Claim issues daily GENESIS tokens and runs on a bonding curve, meaning that cost for new Claims increases as more are purchased. This release sees five new worlds opened, with the first, Xoth, on April 7th, and the other four the following week. Mining claims must be purchased with GAME tokens.

Read more about the next Genesis Worlds Mining Claims here.

Solana NFTs on OpenSea

Pretty much any Solana game should be worth looking at now that OpenSea has announced their intentions to support Solana NFTs starting in April. Any move by the biggest NFT market is sure to bring additional notice. No official launch date, but the technology and partnerships are already in place, so we expect an announcement very soon.

Tiny Colony Mint

Speak of Solana, the ant-themed game, Tiny Colony, is launching their character mint there on April 28th. Unlike other 10k projects, players get some control over the ant person. Minters can choose from nine different factions at mint time. From Hero to Scientist to Samurai! Tiny Colony already had their Nest sale, and Nest owners receive Whitelist spots for the Character mint. Other folks have to complete some basic tasks in a Gleam contest to vie for a spot.

Learn more about Tiny Colony and the upcoming mint here.

Metwana Mint and Launch

Mint Baby Buds, on… you guessed it, April 7th! Metwana promises some sort of hybrid fusion of farming simulator and creature battler with a 420-themed style. The mint will be on the Fractal marketplace on Solana. The initial mint cost was supposed to be 2 SOL for the whitelist mint, and 2.5 SOL for the public sale, but, given the recent market rally, the team decided to review the pricing. It will be 1.25 SOL for the WL sale and 1.69 for the public sale…

Check out our article about Metawana and take part in our Whitelist token giveaway ! 10 Metawana Whitelist tokens to win.

Green Rabbit Racing Launch

Green Rabbit has steadily assembled a complex crafting ecosystem over the past year. And though the final fruits of that labor are still around the corner, we do have the first looks at the 3D world of Green Rabbit, including their social hub and free 3D, practice racing! This is supposed to go live at 11pm PST on March 31st. We don’t have a lot of details yet, but once it’s up we’ll get all the important info to you. Green Rabbit runs on the WAX blockchain.

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Ascenders is an open-world story-driven game with a decentralized player-driven economy to deliver a new ARPG (Action Role-playing Game) experience. The game is powered by Avalanche blockchain and features a dual token economy and NFTs created by players. The Ascenders ecosystem consists of various opportunities for competition and trade. Players can choose from various play-to-earn roles and specialize in them with its challenges and resources.

In Ascender, you can explore new dungeons, discover resources, build their land and engage in combat. The game is based on a player-driven economy where players have full control over the supply and demand of resources inside the game.

The game story takes you through two worlds, namely Overworld and Dungeons.

• Overworld: The Overworld contains different terrains with its features, different challenges, resources, and enemies. Players can explore the Overworld for resources that can be used to mint NFT items. Certain areas demarcated in the Overworld map indicate NFTs that allow landowners to create buildings visible to other players.
• Dungeons: The Dungeons serve as periodic tournaments that allow players to compete on PvEvP leaderboards for rare and valuable resources. Players can explore deep dungeons to get rewards that can be used to mint NFT items. The dungeons are filled with enemies, and they need clearing out before it is safe for the community to begin construction. Players have to use their combat skills here to obtain rich rewards.

Game Economy

The Ascenders game focuses on decentralization and players’ lanes. So, all functional NFT items such as equipment, armor, resources are minted by players at buildings created by players who own their land. The resources have also been divided among the “economic lanes.” Some types of resources can be found only in dungeons, whereas some can be found only in the Overworld.

Players can specialize in dungeon farming or trade with other players to acquire resources. This system creates opportunities for trading inside the game that strengthens the game economy. This gives freedom for players to choose whether they want to fight, explore or build.

Player Lanes

As the Ascender economy is divided into economic lanes, each lane has its features such as gameplay, resources, and rewards. There are three lanes Explorer Lane, Fighter Lane, and Builder Lane.

• Explorer Lane: The resources players collect in this lane can only be found in the Overworld. This lane is for players who enjoy farming, collecting, and steady progress. Players can harvest resources from the Overworld or collect rewards for finishing the story campaign.
• Fighter Lane: Competitive Players who enjoy being on top of the leader board can choose this lane. They can combat, attack dungeons, search for rare resources, and chase leaderboards. The resources they win can be found in the dungeon only.
• Builder Lane: Players who like to own land, trade in the market, and build their land can choose this lane. Players can mint NFT items like swords and armor to defend the land and grow resources.

Tokens in Ascender Game

The two main tokens of the Ascenders Ecosystem are the Ascenders Governance Council (AGC) governance token and the Glow Gems (GG) currency token.

• AGC Token: The $AGC Token is the main governance token of the Ascenders game and is the engine that powers the Ascenders ecosystem. Players use it to participate in important gameplay and direction decisions via the Ascenders Decentralized Autonomous Organization (ADAO), a Decentralized organization that governs aspects of game operations and future development.
• GG Token: GG Token is a utility token used for economic activities like building construction, crafting upgrades, item minting, and others. GG is used to reward player engagement with the game’s story, tournaments, quests, and world events.

What are Land Parcels?

A land parcel is an ownable piece of land in the Ascenders Overworld. Each land parcel is unique, with different sizes, layout resources, and terrain. Land parcels vary in size from small estates to vast Sovereign lands. These provide a passive resource income to the landowners. The larger the land parcel, the more space for the building will be available. Landowners can build or upgrade:

• Weapon and Armor smiths
• Silos and refineries for resource production
• Hospitals, temples, and fast travel portal
• Local marketplaces in the form of Player-managed shops
• Guildhalls which act as social hubs

Ascenders’ free-to-play version and rewards for grabs

The first Ascenders event is the Combat Challenge “Be the Best,” consisting of a one-month leaderboard and one million $AGC prize pool. The Combat Challenge is a timed attack against enemies within the Ascension region. You have to explore this area and defeat enemies, break containers to collect score orbs, and also, if you get hit, you lose the orbs that you collect. The players with high scores will be displayed on the global leaderboard.

The combat challenge is available for PC and Mac on the official website. The challenge will last for one month. At the end of the event, the leaderboard will be finalized, and the top 100 players will be rewarded with the governance token $AGC. There is another event, “Hash and Tweet.” You have to share and tweet something creative about the game to get a chance to win the $AGC token.

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