The Gala Games team is making great strides toward completion of the in-house blockchain upon which this ecosystem will ultimately run: GalaChain.

We are incredibly excited about the progress being made, and we can hardly wait to bring you a long-term solution to unpredictable and irritating Ethereum network fees (gas), as well as a means of fast and nearly free transactions throughout the Gala Games ecosystem. The platform update described below is an important step in transitioning the user experience from minting items from a Treasure Chest to transferring items from GalaChain to Ethereum, where they can be withdrawn and traded externally.

This update has already taken place, and is designed to shift your understanding of the characteristics and differences of items/tokens in Treasure Chests and Inventory. Treasure Chests will eventually be phased out, and their function is now covered by an Inventory section called GalaChain Inventory.

What Happens to the Treasure Chest?

What Gala Gamers have come to know as the Treasure Chest will (in the not-too-distant future) become known as GalaChain, an entire blockchain. GalaChain will not be limited to the functions of the Treasure Chest, but everything the Treasure Chest currently does will eventually become an example of a GalaChain function.

When an item or token is awarded to a player’s GalaChain Wallet, it will be minted on GalaChain. Similarly to the way items are currently “minted” from the Treasure Chest, items and tokens will have the ability to be transferred from your GalaChain Wallet to your Ethereum Wallet. When this export happens, you will still be required to pay gas fees, just as you currently do when items are minted from the Treasure Chest.

Once GalaChain is released (several months from now), players will be able to not only transfer items or convert tokens from GalaChain to ETH, but also send items/tokens to other players’ GalaChain Inventories. Remember that GalaChain will be a completely separate blockchain where items and coins are minted.

Hopefully this update helps everyone (noobs and veterans alike) understand the process that we are working toward as our development team works hard on GalaChain, a real Gala Game-changer!

“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.