On International Women’s Day, Gala Games is launching Web3 Women, a community initiative by women in web3, for women in web3.
A Community For You
At 66 and counting, we are a growing community of women in Gala. As female pioneers of web3, we envision a kinder, more inclusive and open world than the web2 world before us. Just like the metaverses that strive for universal inclusion, we are working toward a future where everyone has a home, everyone has a place, and everyone belongs.
Over the coming weeks and months, we’ll be shaping and building out our vision for what we want this community to become. With brilliant female minds across engineering, strategy, marketing, customer support, design and leadership, we want you to join us.
Register now, and throughout the coming weeks we will unveil the full extent of our mission, including new opportunities to give back, connect and grow. You don’t have to be an active member of the Gala community to join this initiative, and you don’t even have to be a woman to be a supporter of this incredible cause.
At Gala, we’ve been horrified by the situation in Ukraine and with the help of our community, have already made substantial donations of supplies, but we are eager to do more.
As mothers, sisters, aunties and daughters, we want to stand by the countless families, including children and the elderly, who have been displaced as a result of the invasion. As our first charity initiative, we are donating $1000 on behalf of each woman in the company (some are listed below) to humanitarian relief for refugees.
Possibilities for the Future
Exclusive in-person events
Web3 Women education programs
Master classes
Special access NFT drops
Charity initiatives
Changing the world
All of us in the Gala World would like to wish you a happy International Women’s Day. ❤️
Here’s the latest game submitted for acceptance to the Gala Founder’s Node Ecosystem
We’re always searching for new, original projects that could provide engaging and thrilling gameplay to the Gala Games community. We’re passionate about finding unique titles with teams devoted to making amazing gaming experiences, and that is why today we’re excited to present the latest game for your consideration– Superior!
Our community recently had the opportunity to test an early build of Superior, developed by Drifter. This roguelite is packed with third person shooter action in an intense superpowered survival-fest. In Superior, you’re pitted against hordes of superheroes gone bad, and you’ll have to fight fire with fire.
Throughout the game, you play through dynamically generated missions– each with special objectives, distinct enemies and unique environments– no two missions will ever be the same. As you complete missions, you’ll receive Juice from your fallen enemies. This is the source of their powers, and can be used to gain new superpowers or increase existing ones. Juice can have a wide range of effects. You can choose to increase your physical abilities like jump, melee and dash, or something a little more dramatic– like learning to fire forcefield sawblades from your hands.
Between your missions, you’ll head back to the bar to rest, recover, and stock up, but there will always be a next mission. In true roguelite tradition, upon death you’ll lose everything and start all over with a fresh run that will be entirely different from your previous adventure.
Superior will include an assortment of characters which are available for players to collect as NFTs. Each character has distinct bonuses to gameplay and play-to-earn potential, and rarer characters have additional skills and more earning potential.
Project Name: Superior
Developer: Drifter Entertainment
Genre: Roguelite Multiplayer/Co-Op 3rd Person Shooter
Node Drop Mechanism: Up to 8% of all NFTs/Tokens dropped to Node Operators based on the number of nodes online (more Nodes = greater drops)
Estimated Release Date: Late 2022
The Superheroes used to protect the world, but now the mighty have fallen. Transformed into monstrous abominations, the superheroes of the world now torment and subjugate the very people they used to defend.
You are one of the last human survivors. You and your team have had enough of these monsters that once called themselves heroes. To stop the superheroes, you’ll need to be superior as well. Unlock your own powers as you mount a resistance, and use them to fight stronger, smarter and harder. The only way to stop them is to show them that humanity fights back.
The Vote
Will the Gala Founder’s Node operators agree to the addition of Superior into the Gala Games Ecosystem, in exchange for up to an 8% Distribution of all NFTs created by the game?
YES– A vote for including Superior in the Gala Games Ecosystem
NO– A vote against including Superior in the Gala Games Ecosystem
ABSTAIN– A vote showing no preference
To Vote: Open your Gala Game Node Software and click on the VOTING tab.
Voting Duration: The Node Vote will run from Monday, March 7th at 5:00pm PST through Tuesday March 8th at 4:59pm PST.
Requirement to Pass: Simple majority.
If the community’s vote is affirmative, we plan to unveil the Superior website and launch our first presale for this amazing title from Drifter soon. Watch closely for more updates on Superior.
Live Developer AMA
Join us for an AMA with some of the Superior devs on all the standard Gala Games channels at 4pm PST today, one hour before the Node vote begins. This AMA will be hosted by Jason “Bitbender” Brink, with Drifter guests Brian Murphy, Kenneth Scott and Ray Davis. Don’t miss it!
A new blockchain is coming to power the entire Gala Ecosystem.
Let’s talk about the importance of not only what we’re doing with the upcoming TBA test game and Project GYRI, but the magnitude of our decision to create and eventually migrate to our own blockchain.
Most blockchains are, at their core, little more than decentralized databases for tracking financial transactions. A “distributed ledger” is exactly what it sounds like — just a long list of who holds what at any given time. While this is great for finance, it falls far short of what is needed for gaming. Gala’s chain is the first blockchain developed by game developers specifically for the requirements faced in-game, but it also lends itself beautifully to ideas like Listen-to-Earn, Watch-to-Earn and more.
With the recent launch of Gala Music and announcement of our intentions to greatly expand the Gala Ecosystem into the Gala World, the stakes are higher than ever for the development of our proprietary blockchain. We have built something that will power the vast Gala World.
Gala’s chain will increase efficiency, reduce environmental impact, and lower both cost and time of transactions in our Ecosystem. It will allow new functions and new opportunities for the Gala World to scale. It will enhance security for our players and make it easier for developers to interact with our Ecosystem’s assets. Basically, this blockchain is a giant leap toward our mission of empowerment through ownership.
Building a Blockchain
…is no simple task. The incredibly talented team of blockchain engineers at Gala Games is now in the final stretches of preparations for the community-wide test program. Our intention is not to simply drag our community along with us, but to thoroughly inform you and demonstrate everything to you along the way.
We cannot yet announce an exact time frame or roadmap for the migration. Through articles and announcements, we will convey to you everything you need to know and more in hopes that you’ll not only be prepared for the migration, but as excited as we are for the future of the Gala World.
This blockchain was built for the Gala Ecosystem. It was designed to leave behind the most unnecessary and inconvenient aspects of Ethereum while embracing the quintessential foundations upon which the player empowering vision of Gala Games is built.
What is Decentralization?
Decentralization is a spectrum. Many blockchains are not as decentralized as they may claim or seem, due to the fact that majority control tends to lie in the hands of a relatively small number of wallets. While we are creating the largest network of decentralized gamers in the world with our Node Ecosystem, a certain measure of centralization is necessary to ensure that we are building the perfect blockchain for the task. Throughout this article series we intend on detailing our plan with as much specificity as possible in order to relay how centralization and control are not always a bad thing, but rather a building block with which our decentralized network can be built.
Moving Toward Decentralization
As time goes on, we will also show how the framework we are building on allows things to become decentralized over time, instead of expecting everything to be 100% defined at launch. We are building many things, and we will need that flexibility to grow and deliver on our promises.
The Importance of Trust and Permission
Many evangelists of the space flaunt the idea of trustless systems as one of the most important pieces of blockchain technology. While trustless systems that cannot be exploited are often the ideological goal, the fact remains that proof-of-work and proof-of-stake blockchains (as well as individual smart contracts) are still exploitable and always subject to human error.
The trouble with a trustless system is that the system must still be trusted. That means that if someone discovers a loophole or error in the core protocol or the smart contracts, the trustless design of the protocol can actually prevent mitigating action from being taken. Basically, the trustless system can remove the ability for anyone to stop those bad actors who inevitably come along and discover exploits and weaknesses.
Gala’s chain will begin its existence as a permissioned blockchain, meaning that the game developers and platform curators of Gala Games will agree on any changes to the blockchain. As the various functions of Gala’s chain are refined and proven in action, they will be gradually delegated to Node operators, coinciding with the increased workload expectations outlined in the Gala Games Nodemap.
We do not want our community to place their trust in a system that rewards exploitation and devious action. We dislike as much as you the unpredictability and volatility of gas prices, the mysterious waiting periods and the lack of support resources. These are some of the greatest reasons for us to find a better way than Ethereum as quickly as possible.
Best of Blockchain — Games First
At Gala Games, we have never wavered in our games first, blockchain second stance. Instead of being dogmatic and ideological about the importance of blockchain, we are taking a pragmatic approach to blockchain development. The most important things we seek are greater control for our players, true ownership for our players, and empowerment for our players.
We aim to create an endless supply of life-changing gaming experiences powered by Gala’s chain. We have learned from developers and blockchains that came before us, keeping what serves our players and leaving behind what does not.
Best of Blockchain — Music Reimagined
Many blockchain functions can also be used to build a new decentralized world of music, like we are with Gala Music. Gala’s Chain will allow Node operators to provide resources to the decentralized network in exchange for rewards. It will empower NFT owners to get rewards by pairing their track with a Player Node in the new listen-to-earn economy.
What’s Next?
We’re very close to releasing Project GYRI, in the form of a community-wide playtest for a new game. This Town Star themed game has been created entirely to prove the efficacy of Gala’s blockchain (final name TBA). We think you’re going to love it.
When testing Project GYRI, you’ll be playing to earn a temporary new token called TEST that will exist on the Project GYRI test net. It will have no real value and it will not be transferable.
We are fully confident in every aspect of the upcoming migration to Gala’s chain, but there is still some valuable information we can gather from a community playtest that you’ll hopefully find both enjoyable and educational. Look for more info coming very soon, as well as the release of Project GYRI in the next couple weeks.
Wen GalaChain? Soon, but it won’t be called GalaChain…
Pretty much everyone in the Gala Games Ecosystem has been looking forward to the arrival of Gala’s own proprietary games-first blockchain.
Taking exactly what we need from blockchain tech and applying it to a brand new network built exclusively to power our world of games is one of the biggest next steps we’re taking as a company.
Nobody has done anything in this space the way we’re doing it. When you’re trailblazing, you achieve custom goals, overcome custom obstacles and create custom problems for yourself along the way. Of course, such problems are best dealt with using custom solutions. That’s what Gala’s blockchain is all about: A masterful creative solution to a slew of problems that blockchain developers have come to expect and accept.
The Gala Games Ecosystem was first designed for gamers, to give them a high quality games-first experience with all the conveniences and benefits of blockchain ownership. Minor alterations and further improvements to the development of Gala’s blockchain can easily extend the rewards to listeners, supporters, artists, fans, collectors, early adopters and more as Gala expands into music and beyond.
Now as the Gala World is growing to include Gala Music as well as other forms of media in the future, we see that the blockchain we’re building can help power it all. We have spent a great deal of time and energy creating the exact blockchain needed to power this Ecosystem in the ways we imagine, with the following features (among others).
Faster transactions
Reduced impact on the environment
Lower network fees
Lower minting costs
Interoperability throughout the Gala World
Transferability to/from Ethereum
We will share and explain the ways Gala’s chain will work throughout this testing process as we begin to prepare for the migration. Blockchain tech is a fascinating world, and we hope you all take a real interest as we have. This migration will be a learning opportunity for our community.
Project GYRI — Gala’s Chain in Action
For now, Gala’s blockchain will be known as Project GYRI.
The final and official name of Gala’s chain is not yet determined, but Project GYRI has been chosen as the placeholder name that will be used throughout the blockchain’s early testing days.
Until recently, this blockchain was being referred to in the community and team as “GalaChain,” but it has been decided that creating a test net is the best way forward.
The word comes from human anatomy. Gyri are the folds (ridges) in the cerebral cortex of the brain and sulci are the indentations. They give the brain its well known wrinkled look, and together they create a system that folds the cerebral cortex to increase its surface area so that it can process more information. They also create divisions in regions of the brain, allowing for the separation and organization of thought.
This is no biology class, but the naming metaphor should be coming clear. The gyri are the outermost layer of the human brain. They protect, organize and empower. The Project GYRI introduced by Gala Games in the coming weeks and months will fill these roles as well.
Your Security
Because your accounts can hold money and because in-game items can be truly owned, your security is incredibly important to us. This is why we’re not simply going to propel our entire community suddenly into a blockchain that is completely new and unknown to you. We have an abundance of confidence in our blockchain, but we also want our community to as well before migration.
For our growing community members to effectively protect themselves through changes, they must be informed and educated every step of the way. We will lay out every piece of information before changes are made, making sure our community members can always make the best informed decisions.
The Plan
Within the next few weeks, a fun community-wide test event will go live as the first applied use of Project GYRI, which will eventually become Gala’s blockchain.
This awesome temporary game will offer an excellent demonstration of how Project GYRI will operate. Players will be able to play-to-earn a token (unsurprisingly) called TEST, then spend their TEST on a few different in-game upgrades and bonuses. TEST cannot be transferred or sold anywhere. There are no sales or real money involved in this test, but it should be both fun and enlightening for everyone involved.
For a time, the TBA game will be available for the entire community to test, using the standard Gala Games account. During this time, we will publish written content, hold AMAs, and answer all your questions about Project GYRI so you can all be as excited and confident as we are.
You’re going to love the Project GYRI test game!
Migration Later
Eventually once all the bugs have been located and eliminated and everything has been sufficiently field tested, it will be time to approach the migration of assets. Don’t worry, you’ll have the option to lock your assets into the Ethereum blockchain (in most cases), but they won’t be as readily usable within the gaming platform. We’ll fully inform you before these decisions need to be made, and we have some great stuff to share long before the migration stage.
We will keep you fully informed through the entire process, and as always, we’ll listen to your helpful suggestions and feedback in Discord.
Look for more information coming soon, including the details on the new test net Project GYRI game!
In mid December of last year, we got together in Las Vegasfor a show like nothing else the world had ever seen. There were immersive world experiences for each of our games, and there were announcements of tons of new projects like Last Expedition, Legacy and The Walking Dead: Empires.
There were top-tier performers and live entertainment throughout the day, followed by VIP catered parties in the evening. There was free stuff for guests and exclusive discount drop opportunities for attendees. There was inside track info and a chance for the community to spend some time with the team.
It was clear that the Galaverse is much much larger than any one event, no matter how epic.With memories of -into the galaverse still fresh in our minds we’ve set out to plan the first of this year’s events! That’s right — the FIRST!
We will be in Malta on June 6,7,8!
The Details
There will not be daily tickets, one ticket for the entire event (hotel included)
Only 800 tickets will be available
Cost is $8000 for a single or $14,800 for a couple (with shared room)
