Mini Royale: Nations is Solana First Live Multiplayer Game
Mini Royale: Nations Main Menu
As Ubisoft and Ea make moves to bring NFT’s to their current Video Games, startup game studio Faraway has announced that it has raises 30 million. The investment was led in cooperation by FTX & Lightspeed Venture Partners, as well as Andreessen Horowitz, Solana, Jump Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Pantera Capital.
The co-founders of the studio Alex Paley and Dennis Zdonov, have worked in the industry making a number of mid-core mobile games. The duo previously were heads of the mobile game publisher Glu Mobile, and VP of products at Scopely.
What are Midcore games?
One can look at Roblox to see an example of a Midcore game, with simple graphics and ui, but a good skill curve for new players and easy modes to get in and out of.
The gameplay persists of your regular Call of Duty like, and from what I’ve played it’s pretty good, with easy-to-understand controls, cool maps, that when the server isn’t lagging, an issue that persisted through my playtime. But one can forgive Faraway, it the first multiplayer game actually built on the blockchain.
The best part of the Solana-built game is the fact that you do not need a powerful PC as with other shooters today, understandably so I dont think the blockchain is ready to produce Unreal Engine 5 level graphics.
What about NFT’s
With Mini Royale being built on the Solana blockchain, this will enable players to buy, and sell NFT weapons, skins, and accessories, Faraway plans on implementing land plots as well as buildings.
The game also plans on releasing a governance token, that the developers say will grant the players governing rights, and a separate utility token giving players a sense of ownership over the development and community.
Mini Royale already launched with over 300,000 monthly active users. Plans to roll out the Sol NFT implementation are planned to be rolled out in December.
Cofounder Alex Paley said that “it [Solana] was the only blockchain platform they found was well suited to handle the demands of a fast-paced 3D multiplayer game like Mini Royale: Nations.” per Decrypt.
“We're making a real-time multiplayer, hyper-social, ultra-complex economic game, right? Solana was literally the only chain that could actually allow us to make that type of game,” he told Decrypt. “It's super fast. It's super cheap, as far as transaction costs go. There's a ton of liquidity in the protocol, and there's a ton of ecosystem momentum.”
December will be a big month for the company, I for one just started playing today and will continue as this is the first NFT gaming project that I can actually get into. With one needing over 3 Axie’s to just begin to play Axie Infinity. One can run you up to $1,300, so you can see my hesitancy, But Mini Royale may just be the one to get me into Play to Earn.