“It’s time to prove to your friends that you’re worth a damn.”
-Sin City

Thirty years ago, iconic artist and writer Frank Miller created the neo-noir crime thriller series of graphic novels, Sin City, which broke down barriers and captured the comic world’s imagination. The raw and brutal humanity of Miller’s noir heroes made them relatable on a level that few artists in the space have ever reached.

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The stories first appeared in April of 1991, as part of Dark Horse Presents Fifth Anniversary Special, and over the following year they were released as 13 serial installments with intertwining characters and storylines. Many of us will never forget the gritty and hard-hitting fictional events of Basin City, which became the setting for some of our darkest dreams.

In 2005, Frank Miller teamed up with award-winning filmmaker Robert Rodriguez (of From Dusk Till Dawn and the El Mariachi series), to bring Sin City to life in a visual masterpiece of a film. Sin City became an instant classic.

To say that the Gala Games ecosystem has been growing by leaps and bounds may be the understatement of the year. Over the last several months, records have been consistently broken, increasingly higher goals have been set, and major worldwide traction has been gained.

With our Founder’s Nodes, we are building the world’s largest decentralized gaming network and essentially redefining the industry. Another word for “decentralized” is “distributed,” and an important part of our node network mission is effective distribution. We want as many dedicated gamers as possible to own licenses and operate Founder’s Nodes, not only for the ongoing rewards they will receive, but for the love of gaming and an honest desire to change the world.

New Pricing Increase Model

As many of you know, Gala Games Founder’s Nodes have always been set to increase in price at the rate of $100 for every 100 node licenses sold (each tier).

Beginning on October 1st (00:00 UTC), each new tier will trigger a $500 price increase instead of $100.

For example, if the current tier has node licenses priced at $17,000, the next tier’s pricing will be $17,500 per node license.

Under this new tier pricing system, node licenses will be capped at a price of $100,000 per node when the final Founder’s Node licenses are sold.

Nodes in Gala Only

In addition to this, we are also going to be moving forward with making the purchase of nodes available in GALA only. We have discussed making this change, ecosystem wide, but we will begin testing with the nodes. This is tentatively scheduled for October 1st, but this will be confirmed closer to the date.

Thank You

We are beyond appreciative to you all for being part of this ecosystem, and of course we will continue to grow, doing our absolute best to revolutionize gaming as you know it. We will always welcome your honest feedback and creative ideas, and we look forward to creating value for this ecosystem for many years to come.

With all the exciting growth and nonstop action of the last several months throughout the Gala Games ecosystem, time has flown right by. In a flood of new players, new projects and new possibilities, we nearly overlooked an important decision still waiting to be made. The original $10,000 GalaCon Hackathon has three finalists remaining. Initially, this was intended to be in a video interview format, but due to a recording error we needed to revert to a text-based interview. Originally, there were four finalists but one did not reply after repeated contact attempts.

Now as we look forward to our huge live event, GalaCon, it’s time to make a choice that will award one of these promising projects with $10,000 toward the development of their game. Please note that the winner of this Hackathon is NOT being added to the Gala Games platform in any way, nor will they be branded as a Gala Games game.

The winner will receive a $10k grant to use on further creation and development of their game.

You’ll find more in-depth rundowns on both of these games at THIS POST from March of this year.

Over the Water

Castaway: a Pirate Survival MMORPG

The first of the two finalists was introduced back in late March as Untitled Pirate Game. This MMORPG is being created by a small team (currently just 3 people) with great ambitions to become an incredible open world adventure of exploration.

Questionnaire Answers

When did you first begin exploring this idea?

November 2020

What are your most crucial development goals that are currently being held up by lack of funding?

Additional Developers for the game, assets, and music.

Does your game have the potential to appeal to massive audiences?

Most definitely, the game has a genre that is massive. (MMORPG Survival)

On a percentage scale, how complete is your game?

30%

What is your mission statement?

Create the games today that will live to see the future.

How will your game empower the players of the world in a new way?

It will listen to the players and make sure it knows its community. Without the players there is no game. We want to focus on developing the game around the community.

Is there anything we should know about your background or experience that would make the Gala Games ecosystem more inclined to choose your project?

I have managed crypto projects before so I am not completely new to the scene. I also am a Management Information Systems major, and have been running game servers for over 10 years. I also have experience in Unreal Engine and Agile Scrum project management to get this project done.

As many of our followers have already noticed, some major updates to the Gala Games store recently went live.

Picture the old man that runs a small town grocery store. His merchandising isn’t the best and his street sign may be falling apart. He doesn’t care much, because everybody knows where to get the groceries. He figures that sales will be the same whether or not he makes cosmetic updates. He may be right.

That’s not us. Gala Games is a data driven company with none of the inconveniences of a physical location and all the customization benefits of a 21st century internet business. There are billions of gamers in the world and we intend to reach them effectively. We have a team hard at work full time on not only sharing our offerings, but doing so in the most visually compelling, convenient and easy-to-understand ways possible. Led by Nina Desai, our Director of UX, this team analyzes data and always makes positive changes as we continue to grow. This store page remodel is the perfect example of a streamlined user experience, responding to months of feedback and taking positive action.

User experience is incredibly important to us, especially as a blockchain gaming company. Many other blockchain projects and games come with a nightmarish user experience that can easily turn anyone without extensive blockchain knowledge away. At Gala Games, we think blockchain aspects should be nicely hidden behind a curtain, allowing for web3 functionality with a comfortable and convenient web2 user experience. In other words, blockchain games will find mass adoption when they are no longer called “blockchain games” but simply “games.”

A Look at the New Store

• A centralized place to view everything — Rather than having to visit a different “store” for each game, all NFT assets can now be found on a single STORE PAGE.

• Filter tools — Now you can look for items based on rarity, price, type, or availability.
• A search option — This allows you to quickly locate any item in the store, searching by name.
• Recent drops on the homepage — The homepage has also been redesigned, with a new carousel slideshow at the top and some new organization, including links to the most recent NFT drops from all projects.
• Game info and screenshots — On each product page, you’ll now find information about the item and the game, including screenshot and links. There is also a category below showing the most similar NFT items currently available.