We don’t often talk about the exclusive VIP community of Gala Games because we don’t want to overgrow it. If every audience member found their way backstage at the big show, would it still be a special and exclusive experience?
Exclusivity comes from curation and limitation. That’s why we’ve always gated Gala Gold membership behind a cost. At first when we were small, it was only $10 for lifetime membership in Gala Gold. Then for a time it was $50. Now the same lifetime membership will cost you $100. This is a carefully calculated cost to ensure that our VIP community of testers and early adopters remains small in comparison to the constantly growing Gala community at large.
Benefits to Gala Gold
Gala Gold was originally formed as a way to distinguish the most dedicated community members from the more casual ones. We understand that the majority of users in the GalaChain ecosystem might have no interest in spending much time in the Discord server, making online friends from around the world or even in testing games through various stages of development.
By gating the Gala Gold community behind a one-time fee, we were easily able to assemble a group of fully committed people, interested in providing feedback (good, bad or ugly), testing games and getting their hands on early collectibles.
Gala Gold is a Lifetime Membership
We won’t ask for a repeating subscription fee for a Gala Gold membership, but we can predict that the cost of joining Gala Gold will go up from time to time. This mechanism ensures that the earliest arrivals are appropriately rewarded for their loyalty and participation.
Gala Gold membership was first sold for $10, then updated to $50. Today, membership in this club will cost you $100. We cannot predict if or when the Gala Gold price will increase again.
Free NFTs from Time to Time
Oftentimes you’ll find Gala Gold the best place to receive special NFT items that relate to games in development or various stages of release. It could be that a certain game would like to start by distributing a certain in-game item to a select group, including thousands of people. Because of the limited-supply nature of NFTs, it rarely makes sense to distribute an item to all accounts. We prefer the approach where NFT item ownership has a degree of exclusivity attached to it.
All Gala Gold members receive the Common Ground World Express Depot, allowing them to make deliveries faster in-game, placing and replacing their Depot as they see fit. In the past, special characters, skins, weapons, avatars and more have been given to members of Gala Gold.
When Gala Gold NFT drops take place, they are based on a snapshot of everyone who is currently a member of Gala Gold, meaning that if you haven’t signed up and paid your fee by the time of the snapshot, you miss out on that drop.
Please note that there is no set schedule for regular NFT drops to members of Gala Gold. Instead, items are given at the discretion of individual game teams. Several months will often go by with no Gala Gold NFT drops, so joining with the expectation of regular free NFTs can lead to disappointment.
Discord Access
For the past couple years, most members would agree that the greatest benefit to Gala Gold is access to a special Gala Gold area of Discord.
Complete with an announcement channel, a special sneak peek channel, a place for suggestions, a bustling ongoing discussion hub and an exclusive stage for hosting events, Gala Gold is essentially a gated community within the greater Gala community.
Here you’ll find opportunities to bend the ears of team members in a more intimate setting, a place where we feel free to talk more openly about the ecosystem than in general channels. Company leaders are often directly involved in the conversations in Gala Gold, whether exchanging comments about the latest games and feature releases or accepting valued feedback from a trusted community.
Basically, Gala Gold Discord channels are a fantastic place to be heard, especially if you have constructive ideas (or criticisms) of the ecosystem. We have often been known to suddenly shift strategies based on important discussions that have taken place here.
In terms of leaks and alpha info, there is nothing better than Gala Gold. A company like Gala operates like a complex gear mechanism– When a company leader wants answers or responses quickly, they’re likely to take it straight to Gala Gold first. In many cases, you’ll have a chance to see something discussed here 1-2 days before it is mentioned on social media or in an official Gala blog. You may be surprised at the difference a couple days can make when it comes to the flow of information in the web3 era.
From the Gala Gold Suggestions channel
Testing Games
Testing is an incredibly important part of shipping games, whether it’s a first, second or third party title. For the community, testing is often seen as a special perk to paying attention. We take the testing of our games very seriously, and different stages of development require different sizes of test groups.
When testing a game with a community audience, we want to make sure that:
The size of the audience fits the game in its current state – Gala Gold is often called upon to test games in early stages, when the game is too far along for an “internal only” playtest” but not quite ready for a whole public platest.
Our testers are diligent and experienced – Being an early Tester of a game is super fun, but we also want to ensure that as many participants as possible take the responsibility seriously. We have found that in Gala Gold, our members are very committed to the overall success of individual games, so they will honestly seek out bugs and provide excellent feedback.
Improvement is priority one – Finally, we want to ensure that our testers understand that anything can happen in a testing cycle for a game, no matter the genre or platform. Our Gala Gold members have repeatedly shown that they are mature and adaptable in these situations, never getting mad at us for doing what is necessary to improve a gaming experience.
Future Benefits Unknown
Gala Gold can be expected to evolve along with the Gala ecosystem. Existing perks can change as needed and new benefits will sometimes appear as new GalaChain functionalities allow.
Gala Gold is not for everyone, but we encourage anyone to join who considers themselves part of our most dedicated fanbase. If you’re spending a lot of time in the Discord community channels and are not yet a member, we think you would meet a lot of great people and find tremendous benefit in the Gala Gold channels.
As always, thanks for being part of the Gala community!
Ready for some serious code-breaking with Treasure Tapper? To add an exciting twist to your daily gameplay, try your hand at the “Daily Code,” where you can now use Morse code tapping to unlock instant rewards. Let’s dive into the details of this innovative feature and how you can make the most of it to stack more token rewards every single day!
What’s “Daily Code”?
“Daily Code” is a brand-new in-game feature that challenges players to use Morse code tapping (hold = dash, quick tap = dot) to enter a special daily code. Each day, a new code is released, and players can decipher it using clues provided at 5 pm PT in the Treasure Tapper announcements channel and on our social media platforms.
How to Use “Daily Code”
Check for Clues: At 5 pm PT daily, head to the Treasure Tapper announcements channel or our social media pages to find the new clue for the daily code.
Enter the Code: Use the Morse code tapping interface within the game. A hold represents a dash, and a quick tap represents a dot.
Get Your Reward: Successfully entering the correct daily code will instantly reward you with 1Million Coins.
Understanding Morse Code
Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters through sequences of dots (short signals) and dashes (long signals). It’s a fascinating and historical way to communicate, which you can now use in Treasure Tapper to unlock rewards.
In Treasure Tapper, your holds and taps represent the long and short signals of Morse code, respectively. When you get a letter right, you’ll see it appear on the blank Daily Code line.
Below is a quick reference guide to help you get started with Morse code. Remember that a hyphen (-) represents a hold and a period (.) represents a quick tap. Knowing this code could help you survive in all sorts of tricky situations!
A: .-
B: -…
C: -.-.
D: -..
E: .
F: ..-.
G: –.
H: ….
I: ..
J: .—
K: -.-
L: .-..
M: —
N: -.
O: —
P: .–.
Q: –.-
R: .-.
S: …
T: –
U: ..-
V: …-
W: .–
X: -..-
Y: -.–
Z: –..
Numbers and punctuation also have their unique sequences, making Morse code a comprehensive method of communication. Here’s a quick look at numbers:
0: —–
1: .—-
2: ..—
3: …–
4: ….-
5: …..
6: -….
7: –…
8: —..
9: —-.
Using these Morse code sequences, you can now unlock your daily rewards in Treasure Tapper. Happy tapping, and may your daily rewards be plentiful!
How about that, crypto wizards and early adoption experts? We hit a huge milestone and this little tap-for-rewards game is just getting started. 😎
First off, if you haven’t started tapping and collecting TREASURE coins yet, there are only a million people ahead of you, so you can still be early.
Send a Telegram message to @Treasure_Tapper_Bot to get started, or just scan the big ol’ QR code with your trusty mobile device. 👇 In a matter of seconds, you’ll be tapping and collecting your first token rewards with Treasure Tapper.
This Treasure Tapper train has only been rolling for a few weeks now, but we’ve already received an amazing reception from the wider web3 community, who apparently love tapping their phones for in-game rewards.
Thanks to Telegram’s recent mini app platform and integration with the web3 functionality of The Open Network (TON blockchain), crypto games are now simpler than you ever imagined. With mini apps like Treasure Tapper, there’s no need to download a game– It’s launched within Telegram, the trusted messenger app you’re probably already using.
So why are they all here, tapping away day after day? The token frenzy!
The rewards that players are collecting like crazy will soon be minted as crypto tokens on both TON and GalaChain, where owners will have the ability to swap them for other crypto using sites like GalaSwap!
When is Token Minting?
As you’ll often hear in the crypto world, we cannot yet divulge that information, so let’s just say soon.
Here’s the thing. No matter when it happens, it will be in the future, which means you can definitely collect more TREASURE in the game than you currently have. We think you’ll agree that having more will be better in the long run, especially once minting rewards has begun.
How Will it Work?
Once it’s time to mint your $TREZ tokens, you’ll have to meet a couple simple requirements to ensure there’s somewhere to deliver your tokens. Minting reward tokens will not be automatic, but will require some action on your part, so be sure to keep watch over the Treasure Tapper Announcements channel and other official communication.
Watch out for Scammers!
A true web3 visionary is vigilant at all times, ensuring that they don’t fall for anything. Such vigilance is easier than you may think:
Be suspicious of links
Say something if you see something suspicious
Only believe what’s announced on official channels
Don’t trust messages about Treasure Tapper from strangers or the Treasure_Tapper_Bot
Flashing lights and loud noises dominate your senses. Last quarter. This time you’ll get it for sure.
You pop it in and the screen comes to life. Dirk the Daring fearlessly gets to his heroic work. You use what you’ve learned all afternoon to navigate the treacherous path. It’s a perfect run so far. Just as you’re starting to get cocky, the Lizard King creeps out of nowhere. Game over.
Just one of many horrible fates that befell Dirk the Daring.
Totally defeated and having lost your last quarter, you start to slink away from the machine. Almost automatically you sweep the coin return with two fingers – A quarter! Maybe one last game of Ninja Gaiden instead of trying your luck at this one again.
The Golden Age of the Arcade
If you were born before the 90s, chances are this sounded pretty familiar to you. All those of us who grew up in the time when the arcade was king distinctly remember those last quarter feels, or the sensation of poking at the coin return in the hopes that some other kid forgot their last coin in it.
Yes, arcades are still a thing. My daughter is quite fond of them. It’s hard to take her to a half abandoned and dilapidated arcade though and not have my mind drift to those days where games meant more than just tickets. When the arcade was the spot to be all summer long.
Back then, the video games we could play at home were limited. Sure, depending on what decade we’re talking about there were Ataris, Commodores, NES and eventually even those late 90s persistent 300+ game shareware discs. The quality and quantity of games you could play from your couch, however, paled in comparison to wall to wall arcade cabinets and the sure chance of finding at least some of your friends at the arcade.
These were the days of no internet. The days of very limited multiplayer outside multi-joystick arcade games. The days when gaming culture was born… and that culture lived full-time at the arcade.
Dragon’s Lair, which I was referencing above, came out in 1983. Dragon’s Lair BLEW OUR MINDS! This was a time when most games were lines and dots on a screen, or at best they were made up of moving static images. Some of the highest tech out there had sprites for characters that had 2-3 poses at most.
Dragon’s Lair showed up with a Disney-quality, rotoscoped movie as its gameplay. They used the entirely new LaserDisc data format to encode a movie with multiple branching paths… one of the first examples of interactive media at this quality! It was impressive… so impressive, in fact, that sometimes you’d keep draining quarters into it even after you realized how punishing and impossible it was.
Not So Distant Beginnings
We’ve come a long way in a very short time with video game tech. The glory days of the arcade weren’t that long ago. Looking back, however, it’s really no wonder why we moved so fast. At the arcade, you could play 40+ new games in one day, talk about them with your friends, and watch hundreds of other kids playing (who were probably better than you) over their shoulder. We learned quick, which is why gaming learned quick.
Simple shapes and basic mechanics of games like Breakout gave way to slightly less simple shapes of games like Arkanoid. One by one, the kids pumping quarters in the games started to recognize genres and core mechanics. At first it was “Oh! It’s like Double Dragon”, but as our knowledge grew it quickly became “Oh! It’s a beat ’em up, co-op platformer”.
Arcades were education. In those early days of the 70s and 80s, there were great game designers and programmers working on games. That was nothing compared to the kids they were training up though. No one had ever absorbed so much of the previously non-existent media of video games.
Spoiler, some of us who put our time in at the local arcade ‘studying’ would go on to push gaming forward with this education. Soon the kids recognizing patterns in the games they pumped their quarters into grew into the young professionals propelling gaming into the next generation.
The Legacy of Arcades
Arcades may still exist, but they’re not always the bastion of culture they once were. That having been said, that culture is still very much alive. When my daughter used to lure three friends into her Minecraft world so they could run her newly created obstacle course, that felt very arcade. When I watch a Twitch stream and think my commentary actually adds to the group conversation, that feels a lot like crowding around the arcade champ’s shoulder while they’re taking challengers on in Killer Instinct.
I think you’d be hard pressed to find many who work in game dev today that don’t have fond memories of the arcade. This was the shared experience that helped raise us and led to the rapid progression of games through the past few decades. Whether you were setting your coins on deck for Space Invaders in the late 70s or trying to solo run The Simpsons Arcade Game in the early 90s, you helped create this industry.
There are cultures throughout the world where arcades still hold some of their former glory. Japan, notably, has sprawlingly huge arcades with an often ridiculous assortment of all kinds of games. Even those, however, are on the decline compared to their heights in previous decades.
Pictured: The Kabukicho pedestrian crossing in Tokyo, at the corner of Shinjuku Moa 2 Avenue and the Godzilla Road. Though arcades are statistically on the decline in Japan, there are still whole districts with entire buildings devoted to nothing but arcade games.
Luckily, one thing out there is preserving the classic arcade feel… And I’m not talking about a room full of machines that dispense tickets so you can buy worthless prizes. That great force working to save some piece of this culture is probably the same thing that made you read this far – nostalgia. Adults love games too, and over the past decades we’re seeing far more arcades formatted for grownups.
It’s really no surprise that these ‘barcades’ have risen so quickly. Adults do love to play just as much as everyone else. Billions of people out there all have this shared experience of the arcade… is it any wonder we’d want to relive a little of that? Also, compared to the price of some leisure activities out there… my wallet and wife would much prefer I play some Ms. PacMan with a cheap beer in my hand for an hour or two rather than some of the alternatives.
Fun is fun, and arcades are fun that everyone can enjoy together.
Arcade Culture Comes to GalaChain
This long, nostalgic ramble has finally brought me to the point. Those of you who have been around the Gala Community for a while may be aware of the Happy Valley Arcade Bar in Beacon, NY. The owners of this establishment have long been incredibly supportive and involved community icons across all things Gala… and they’re working on something absolutely amazing for all arcade fans.
They are currently building some of the world’s first web3 gaming cabinets. These arcade machines will connect to GalaChain and reward high scorers with $VALLEY. Eventually, these games may be playable on the PC, but the arcade cabinets is where the bulk of these tokens will come from.
Early footage from one of Happy Valley’s arcade games!
We here at a Gala are a bit on the outside looking in on this one, but I personally am VERY excited. Not only is it amazing to see people doing new and innovative things with GalaChain, but I really like the idea of a worldwide arcade high score battle.
Information will be coming out soon from the Happy Valley team. I hear they are planning to sell arcade cabinets with $VALLEY potential among other things.
You don’t have to take my word for it though… head on over to https://discord.gg/5zJ8WqNV to join their Discord server today!
Do you have what it takes to become a distinguished crypto genius, tapping and amassing huge treasure in time for the big minting event?
Treasure Tapper is a game of collecting and (wisely) spending tokens to maximize your future rewards. It’s easy to play on your favorite mobile device:
Launch Telegram – Treasure Tapper is a mini app within the massively popular messaging app, so there’s no need for any additional downloads or purchases!
Interact with the Bot – Treasure_Tapper_Bot is your gateway to gameplay, launching the game for you in a matter of seconds so you can spend more time gathering TREASURE!
The game’s main mechanic is simple: Collect as much Treasure Coins as you can. Some actions will help you gain Coins (tapping, inviting friends, watching videos in the “Earn” area) and others will upgrade your ability to collect Coins even when you’re not tapping (Quests).
Stay sharp, Tappers, because soon enough your rewards will be mintable on both TON and GalaChain, allowing you to trade them with other tokens in the ecosystem through sites like GalaSwap. When that ability is added, make sure you have a nice pile of Coins to work with!
Latest Updates
The team is working fast, shipping new gameplay updates almost every single day. The best place to stay up to date is by watching the Treasure Tapper Announcements channel in Telegram, but we’ll also periodically let you know here on the blog!
Introducing “Challenges”
Challenges give you a chance to play with your friends, inviting them to a quick hi-lo contest. The best part? The winner gets extra TREASURE and the loser loses nothing! The more friends you invite, the more you can win, and you can even invite friends who haven’t played the game yet.
Don’t Forget the Dailies
With another recent addition to the game, you can now collect extra Coins in a daily reward that will increase to up to 5,000,000 additional Coins!
Day 1–500 Day 2–50,000 Day 3–2500 Day 4–5K Day 5–15K Day 6–25K Day 7–100K Day 8–500K Day 9–1M Day 10–5M
“Earn” Tasks
In the “Earn” area, you’ll find regularly updated videos that once viewed will gather quick 100K Coin rewards. But you can miss out on these tasks if you don’t get to them in time, so be sure to check in every single day.🤑
New Languages
The following language options have been added to the game, with more to come! 🌎
Portuguese
French
Russian
German
Bahasa Indonesia
Spanish
Ukranian
Turkish
Polish
Tap, Tap, Tap!
Don’t assume it’s not worth your time just because it’s easy! This game is absolutely free and will eventually result in real minted crypto rewards, so make sure you’re putting in your taps, inviting your friends and upgrading your Quests!
