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Today The Game Breakdown

Introduction

Socials References 🌍

• Twitter

• Discord

• Website

• Side

• This is not a lore

Sections of the newsletter

• Description ✍🏼

• Team 👷🏼‍♂️

• Funding & Support 💲

• Core Product Details & Experience ⚒️

• Community curation & engagement 🌐

• Degen details 💰

• Business model 🤑

• Utility & Benefits 🚀

• Post mint details 🛣️

• Key details / What do we like? 🎯

• What are we keeping an eye on? 👀

• Closing thoughts 💭

Description ✍🏼

• Building a simulation game focused on adventure, fantasy genre

• They are developing at the intersection of web3 gaming and the AI ecosystem

• You can design virtual worlds, specifically islands, and are joined by digital AI-based NPC companions who become your residents

• Focused on strong digital experiences, providing AI-based tools for building personalised islands

Team 👷🏼‍♂️

• A super stacked team from the best of both worlds - storytelling and gaming, including Oscar winners and leaders from Unity, SEGA, Nintendo, and many more

• Team overview:
• Michael the founder and CEO, has previously led products generating $800 million in revenues, showcasing massive scale.
• Benjamin is the co-founder & creative director who also won an Oscar for their Swan Song for Apple TV+ and Stutterer
• Donaldo is the head of growth for community
• Mirror is also a part of the team :)

Funding & Support 💲

• They must have definitely raised a sizable round of funding since:
• Hiring for some key hot profiles like ml researchers, game economist
• Doing the first mint free - need to have a capital to run it through and sustain the economy. Something not possible without funding 🙂

Core Product Details & Experience ⚒️

• The focus is on building immersive experiences and leveraging AI to make it as personalized and user-friendly as possible for the player

• A quick tldr of the lore, you can read it here
• Alyanya's message comes from a distant, mystical planet called Une, where her civilization thrived in harmony with nature, bonding deeply with unique creatures called Hōyōs.
• This idyllic existence was disrupted by newcomers, forcing the planet to protect its inhabitants by putting them in a state of forced hibernation. Alyanya, now in a liminal state, has devised a game that acts as a bridge between our world and hers.
• By playing this game, designed to reflect Une's essence, players inadvertently send love and healing to awaken Alyanya's people.

• This narrative offers a unique blend of science fiction, environmental consciousness, and the power of collective action through gameplay, aiming to save a civilization across the cosmos.

• It's a compelling, innovative game concept that merges storytelling with a purposeful mission, appealing to gamers and environmentalists alike.

Community curation & engagement 🌐

• They have been curating and connected with the communities over a year now

• They also airdropped SBTs to 243 users who have the AL for the upcoming mint and have been early supporters of the game since a long time

• They have very good traction on social platforms, with almost 40k members on Discord and 180k followers on Twitter.

• One very cool campaign that they ran recently was, planting trees IRL to be eligible to get an AL spot, a pretty unique concept. Loved it!

• Running a weekly community update campaign as well on twitter, which has been running over 60 weeks now, that’s commendable - keeping the users updated about the progress and development progress. They’re also taking feedback real-time and getting those integrations going.

• The community was also engaged in finalising the final supply size for the upcoming mint.

Degen details 💰

• Mint type: Genesis collection

• Name: Ancient seed mint

• Supply: 777

• Cost: FREE

• Chain: ETH

• Date: TBA

Business Model 🤑

• Primarily from my experience of gaming it should be via IAPs (in-app-purchases)

• The second collection can probably be a priced one

• They can have partnerships with bigger projects having their own lands (they’ve got a partnerships lead so my assumption)

Utility & Benefits 🚀

• Access to next mint: Mythic collection

• Early access to the platform, games & beta testing prototypes

• Personal discord channels (for the Ancient seed soul bound owners)

• Exclusive airdrops

Post mint details 🛣️

• Not much has been shared about the core game details post mint

• But one should expect more info on the core utilities for the game + teasers + build up to the second mint - one such thing is:
The launch of The Garden - a platform to stake the minted seeds and earn rewards / multipliers
 

Key details / What do we like? 🎯

• Free mint for a gaming project with a small supply is always the best offering ever

• Extremely experienced team from winning Oscars, Nintendo, Sega coming together and building this for a few years now

• Very good graphics and traction on socials (almost 40k members on discord & 180k followers on twitter)

• AI x web3 gaming - is going to be one of the biggest narratives of the year IMO; if they are able to launch soon and join the hype chain, can run really well

• I always love the integration of Web2 and Web3, creating Web2.5 styled games with genuinely fun gameplay backed by strong blockchain-based game economics.

What are we keeping an eye on? 👀

• Not a lot of info has been revealed around the core utilities of the assets in particular other than a few access to the upcoming mints

• Again, building an actual games takes ALOT of time & money, it’ll be interesting to see how they run through with monetisation specifically with the low attention span & loyalty for crypto users

• They face some stiff competition with other AI x Web3 gaming players with Echelon Prime leading this category, followed by AI arena and others

Closing thoughts 💭

• Overall looking a very strong team + narrative + hype being built

• Since it’s a free mint, seems a straightforward mint if you’re on the AL

• It will be interesting to keep track of the post-mint details and information. I'm particularly looking forward to when the playable experiences start. With Parallel Colony also set to launch soon, having an early mover advantage will be worthwhile.