summary: Star Atlas (Launched in January 2021) is a Blockchain-based, space-themed, grand strategy video game built on the Solana...
content: Star Atlas (Launched in January 2021) is a Blockchain-based, space-themed, grand strategy video game built on the Solana Blockchain. It is a massive multiplayer Metaverse set in the distant future, in the year 2,620, where three major factions have emerged and are competing for resources and control: humankind, a consortium of alien races and sentient androids. The NFTs and Crypto trading within the Star Atlas ecosystem emphasizes the importance of real-world assets and ownership to build a strong in-game economy. Background Introduced earlier this year, Star Atlas was designed by an ambitious team of Blockchain and gaming engineers, as well as financial experts. The gaming project integrated on the Solana network has already gained widespread popularity in the Blockchain-based gaming sector, mainly due to its real-time game mechanics, next-gen engine, Blockchain mechanics, and economical system. The team built this unique Metaverse to expose players to a different gaming experience through a smooth combination of both traditional core gaming and Blockchain mechanics. So far the platform has partnered with the likes of Sino Global Capital, Yield Guild Games, and Animoca to “revolutionize the meaning of immersive experience”. Michael Wagner, Co-founder & CEO of Star Atlas believes that his gaming project has a place in the Blockchain. He firmly understand that the platform “will provide the most powerful opportunity in human history for players to realize economic benefits through the extraction of in-game virtual earnings into real-world income”. Game Overview Star Atlas is a massive multiplayer online game that takes place in a virtual gaming Metaverse. It is being built on Unreal Engine 5, allowing the game to feature cinema-quality, real-time environments. Star Atlas takes place in a futuristic science fiction setting in 2620, where three major factions have emerged and are competing for resources and control: humankind, a consortium of alien races and sentient androids. !fetched-img-9ab80e2591a76000png.png The gaming platform explores some of the recent technological breakthroughs by using Unreal Engine 5’s Nanite to create cinematic quality video games and visual experiences. Players on the Star Atlas Metaverse can trade, obtain and create non-fungible tokens (NFTs) within the Star Atlas universe thus enjoying an economy that reflects the tangibility, ownership, and value of real-world assets. Star Atlas is built on the Solana Blockchain and, therefore, stands to benefit from the network’s transactional throughput that supports an extremely high 50,000 TPS (transaction per second). The game combines different genres. It is part strategy in that you have to develop tactical plans of action on how to interact with other players and factions. Part of it is exploration, as the game features an abundance of stars for exploration and exploitation. Since players can travel to and explore these stars independently through first-person flight, it is in part a flight simulation. Lastly, players can mine resources and derive revenue streams from doing so, making it also a role-playing game. After choosing a faction, players initially start in faction security zones without combat to explore basic Gameplay. Later, they can venture out to medium-tier security and open Gameplay where combat is possible. In-Game Factions: The three in-game factions includes: Humankind who controls the MUD Territory Alien Races who Control the ONI Region Sentient androids Controls the Ustur Sector. Star Atlas Gameplay The Star Atlas experience is deeply rooted in Blockchain technology, where mining and staking are core operations to legitimize Decentralized assets. In the next-gen game, exploration is required of miners to discover valuable assets. Additionally, participants can actively establish mining and staking nodes, enhancing Gameplay and raising earning value. The overall wealth derived from mining opens new earning avenues for participants and contributes to their growth within the community. This gives them an opportunity to embody unique career choices and specializations, such as trading raw and refined ore, cargo hauling, and crafting retail components for the Marketplace. As a grand strategy genre, Star Atlas players are introduced to a claim staking mechanism to expand their empire. Moreover, Players can establish tactical trading routes either for offensive or defensive plans of action. Further by exploration and fuelled by an intergalactic conflict, the grand strategy game opens players to deep-space, crewed spaceships to discover celestial and terrestrial assets. In exploration mode, participants can explore a galaxy full of riches that can be mined, refined, and traded in the in-game marketplace. Furthermore, the exploration mode enables players to enjoy cinema likes graphics, with a top-down space view exposing the spaceship’s exterior, an x-ray view to enjoy the interior of the ships showcasing crew members, and a first-person cockpit/bridge view for players. Through an immersive space flight simulation, gamers are given a sense of ownership, allowing players to use state-of-the-art equipment such as virtual reality head-mounted displays, flight sticks, throttles, multi-functional button control panels, and head tracking hardware. Game Features 1\. Grand Strategy : The grand strategy genre of video games encourages claim staking to expand your empire and install strategic trade routes using an offensive and defensive tactical plan of action. In this mode the player primarily interacts with a dynamic overview of the charted and uncharted regions of space via the map view aka the Star Atlas. 2\. Exploration: To augment that grand strategy, Star Atlas enables players to captain deep-space, crewed spaceships to scan and discover celestial and terrestrial assets. Once discovered, rich claims that are staked can be mined, refined and traded through a network of commercial mining installations, refineries, and the Universal Marketplace. Exploration will lead to many other surprises in the outer limits of space. In this mode the player primarily interacts with a top down space view showing their spaceship exterior with the ability to go into an x-ray view to see the interior of the ship and the crew performing their individual tasks. Players can also captain and pilot the ship manually through the first person cockpit/bridge view. Cockpit view is also suitable for seated virtual reality gaming. 3\. Role\-Playing Game: The first principle driving the entire economy of Star Atlas is the mining Gameplay. The wealth derived from mining creates many other branching revenue streams for players to contribute to and establish a career. From trading raw and refined ore, to cargo hauling, to crafting retail components, there is a broad range of career choices a player can embody and advance within the specializations of that career. 4\. Space Flight Simulation: The beauty of space science-fantasy adventure is to manually pilot or captain your own spaceship into the vast unknown. For exploration, combat and various other role-specific game mechanics, the cockpit view gives a sense of ownership and grounding to a player’s chosen ship purchases. This immersive first person, seated view will allow players to utilize equipment such as flightsticks, throttles, multi-functional button control panels, head tracking hardware, and most importantly, virtual reality head-mounted displays. Star Atlas Galactic NFT Marketplace The Star Atlas Galactic Marketplace connects all players in-game to buy and sell all asset types and post job listings for paid, in-game tasks. !fetched-img-7aed57feec16b000jpg.jpeg The majority of assets traded on the Marketplace will be earned doing in-game tasks but can also be purchased from the pre-sale and exclusive future sales, which will enable users to get a hold of exceptionally rare and unique items like commemorative spaceships. Other players will place bid offers or settle immediately for the price limit. NFT Release Schedule New NFT assets will be released periodically by the game developer with careful consideration surrounding the inflationary impact of release. Analysis of current demands for assets by new players, growth in user-adoption, asset availability on NFT marketplaces, and the natural deflation of assets resulting from high-risk zone engagements will be conducted prior to the release of a new tranche of assets. All efforts will be undertaken to reduce negative impacts to players and asset holders resulting from these future sales. Particular emphasis will be placed on assets released in earlier versions with power bonuses or otherwise unique benefits bestowed upon them. Star Atlas DeFi Financial System In addition to using the Solana Blockchain, Star Atlas features direct integration with the Serum Decentralized Exchange (DEX). Thanks to Serum’s integration, Star Atlas players will be able to interact with smart contract-enabled DeFi platforms while in the epicenter of the gaming experience. This will enable players to borrow or lend a variety of Solana or Serum. They will also have access to automated market making on various liquidity pool pairs where they can earn trading fees as well, not to mention yield farming opportunities that offer higher yields. 1.Lending Loaning a variety of Solana/Serum assets to earn yield 2\. Automated Market Maker\(AMM\) Automated market making on various asset pairs to earn trade fees 3\. Yield Farming Identifying assets to borrow at lower yield, and lending/trading with higher 