Hold onto your avatars, Gala Games fam, and get ready to unleash your inner social butterfly with Rep, the web3 social media platform built on our L1 blockchain. Rep is a great example of what external development teams can do with GalaChain, especially now that our SDK is in their hands, not to mention the Gala Creator Portal that makes everything even simpler. With the power of GalaChain behind it, Rep will shatter the limitations and annoyances of traditional social media, offering a decentralized space where you truly own your data and experiences.
Rep your unique personality across diverse communities while enjoying low censorship and transparent posting. Share your thoughts, connect with friends, and even earn rewards for various activities within the network. Rep isn’t just about connecting; it’s about unlocking opportunities.
What Makes Rep Unique
Rep introduces a unique approach to community engagement with its subreddit style communities, enhancing the user experience by tailoring content visibility to specific contexts. Unlike other platforms where a user’s contributions are aggregated across various contexts, on Rep, when you visit a user’s profile within a specific community, such as “Gala Friends,” you’ll only see the content they’ve created relevant to that community. This focused approach ensures that the content you encounter is contextually appropriate, making it easier to sift through and engage with material that aligns with your interests and the community’s theme. This design choice fosters more meaningful interactions and keeps discussions relevant and organized.
New Depth to the Social Experience
Embark on exciting scavenger hunts and quests within the platform, fueled by your social engagement. Treasure hunts are one of the most exciting integrated features of Rep, made possible by highly advanced web3 tech and simplified into a user-friendly interface.
Strengthen your gaming connections with fellow Gala players using Rep’s innovative social features. Eventually, the Rep platform will host “Gala Friends,” a blockchain-integrated private labeled community to connect users throughout the entire Gala universe.
Rep Rewards
Ultimately, Rep will be joined by all sorts of reward opportunities. For running Rep Nodes and powering the network, operators will not only host their own content, but earn rewards for their ongoing support of the decentralized ecosystem. Users will also have access to exclusive referral bonuses for onboarding newcomers to the platform, participating in treasure hunts and much more.
New Features in 2024
Already in 2024, the Rep team has added some sweet new features that any Rep user can now test and enjoy:
Personal Pages – Each user can generate a personal on-chain bio page – For an example, check out Rep founder Neil Haran’s page: https://neilharan.rep.run/
Articles – Long form content is now an option, such as blog articles, reviews, research papers and deep dives.
Polls – Users can present multiple choice polls to engage with the community and gauge response.
Questions & Answers – Ask a question and collect responses from real people using this handy feature.
Treasure Hunts – This feature is one of the most fun and unique aspects of Rep, allowing all users to create and participate in geolocation based treasure hunts with simplicity.
All of the above new features can now be accessed by all Rep users through the “What’s on Your Mind?” box
Stay tuned for updates and keep an eye on News.Gala.com, Ahead of the Game episodes, and our official website for in-depth information about Rep’s development journey as it unfolds. We’re especially interested in this innovative project, and we cannot wait to see it blossom into the robust social media ecosystem that GalaChain deserves.
This is more than just a platform; it’s a paradigm shift. It’s Rep-resenting your true self, earning rewards, and experiencing the full potential of web3 social interactions. Are you ready to Rep your voice? We’ll see you there!
For this issue of Gala’s Latest and Greatest, we’re taking a look at Champions Arena, the epic RPG battler built by the incredible dev team at OneUniverse. This amazing group of accomplished game devs had a special place in their heart for RPG battle mechanics like those found in the old school classic console RPGs with which many of us grew up and sharpened our strategy skills.
They were captivated by the endless strategic combinations of both attacks and defenses, different abilities from different characters, the variety of equipment and weapons, and of course, incredible and timeless character art. Envisioning a new type of game that embraced and elevated the battle mechanics while placing beautiful art on a pedestal, the OneUniverse dev team conceived the idea of Champions Arena.
Battle All Day
What truly sets Champions Arena apart from other mobile RPGs is its strong focus on battle above everything else. In the various types of arenas, players can collect and deploy over a hundred different Champions, with new Champions being added regularly with new updates.
With so many unique Champions, each with its own set of abilities and buffs, the strategy combos are virtually endless, even for the most dedicated players. Upsets and surprises are always possible, and through proper strategy, it’s possible to defeat Champion teams with much higher levels–If you play your cards right.
Grind or Compete
With both PvE and PvP modes, Champions Arena allows players to alternate between many different modes of gameplay to always keep things fresh. There’s always a way to grind in Champions Arena.
Take on other players with your best Champion teamin the PvP “Arena” mode, where gameplay is measured by Seasons, each lasting several weeks. Within each Season, players battle for Leaderboard positions, competing for piles of loot in the form of Gems (used to buy various in-game items and equipment), Arena reward chests (containing super rare equipment and items) and Minting Scrolls, which are used to mint collected in-game Champions as NFTs on GalaChain.
NFT Champions
Because we’re running on GalaChain, players have the unique option to own their Champions as minted tokens (NFTs), allowing them to trade on secondary markets and transfer to other users. Browse the secondary market on OpenSea
Daily $GALA Rewards are also distributed for those who play with NFT Champions that are minted on GalaChain. From a reward pool determined each day by how much was spent on in-game purchases throughout that day, victorious players receive a portion of $GALA equivalent to their victory, compared to other NFT owning players.
Ownership is not required at all to play the game and collect Champions, but owning unlocks the ability to earn rewards in the PvP Arena. Through the use of Minting Scrolls, every Champion has the ability to be minted as an NFT on GalaChain. This allows players to level up their favorites while collecting Scrolls, then mint them as tokens once they’re ready to take on the competition in the Arena for real rewards!
So Many Rewards
With Daily Quest rewards, Idle rewards and more, there are so many ways to convert your time and energy into Champions Arena in-game loot. Additionally, the team is always spinning up new ways to unlock excitement.
Valentine Rewards
Right now, complete tasks in the special Valentine category to accumulate Love Medals to spend on Champions, items, equipment and more in a special in-game store! You have just over two weeks left to grind out these exclusive Valentine Challenges before the opportunity is gone!
From February 7th-February 20th, 500 Love Medals will be given away beach day, so be sure to login daily!
Events and Promos
Be sure to check all the Events so you never miss out on potential rewards. The best way to get as many rewards as possible is to keep up a daily login streak–The more consecutive days you play, the greater your rewards. Even without purchasing Summon Tickets, you’ll be surprised at how quickly you can build up a solid collection of Champions simply by logging in daily and collecting your gameplay rewards!
New Champions
New Champions are released in each new Season. To ensure that they get into the hands of the hungry players, these new Champions are given a greatly enhanced drop rate from Summon Tickets throughout the first Season of their arrival!
Until the end of the current season, you’ll have an increased chance of summoning both Deros and King Titan, the brand new Champions in the game!
For Sale in the Gala Store
Sometimes you’ll have the chance to purchase Champion Boxes directly from the GalaChain store, which contain already-minted NFT Champions of various rarities. But you’ll have to watch the store closely because these Champion Boxes tend to sell out quickly!
Gem Packs are always available in various quantities, and they’re the best way to beef up your Champions Arena collection quickly! Starting today (February 8th) in honor of the Lunar New Year celebration, all Gem Packs are 15% off in the Gala store!
Looking Forward
Look out for exciting new events, new purchase and reward opportunities, and new Champions entering the fray throughout 2024–Check out the Update Roadmap below from the UneUniverse team!
Early Access token holders have been digging into Aura for a couple months now, crafting weapons and ammo, harvesting cores, and occasionally spending time in Ravagers’ bellies (we’ve all been there). They may have set themselves up for an early head start, but now it’s your turn…
That’s right. Anyone can download and play the latest pre-Alpha release now on PC through LastExpedition.game.
There are Notari cores to extract and pressure alien ore to harvest. Get out there and flex your extraction muscles!
