Common Ground World’s May Mayhem festivities and competitions kick off this week, and while the dog days of summer are still months away, the team couldn’t resist introducing y’all to your newest CGW canine!
Unlike Building NFTs that require a square of your playing field (or more), Companion NFTs are deployable helpers that will wander around as they please, sharing their abilities and boosts automatically with your entire town. From cute kitties to majestic (but harmless) birds or loyal canine cohorts, Companions will let you pack your town with critters that are as beneficial as they are adorable!
Most Companions come with universal boosts to certain elements of gameplay like production time. While multiple boosts from Companions can be used by deploying multiple Companions, not all boosts are stackable in multiples.
Lucy the Border Collie is a magnificent furry helper for your town, joining Sparky the Great Pyrenees as your newest CGW Companion. But that’s only the beginning of what Common Ground World has planned for the month of May. Look for special competitions, discount sales, NFT reworks and new feature launches throughout the most exciting month on the Gala Games calendar!
Epic Lucy will stand guard to increase the crafting speed of your Milk Barns, Sheep Pens and Chicken Coops.
Now let’s take a look at the May Mayhem excitement landing this week in Gala’s flagship game of town and city builders!
Week 1 Competition
For the first full week of May Mayhem, Common Ground World is hosting an Everyone is Welcome! event, with additional reward spots and extra $GALA on the table for the best builders!
The competition begins at 10am PT on Tuesday, May 7th and runs until 10am PT on Friday, May 10th!
Race to sell as many Blue Steel Bicycles as possible using your Santa’s Factory–Put the pedal to the meta with this special May Mayhem competition!
Topping an extended leaderboard with 2500 total spots, the overall winner will take home 48,000 $GALA. Additionally, the top 100 finishers will receive a bonus NFT award!
Check out the original Discord announcement with a link to terms and conditions, a complete leaderboard breakdown, specific meta requirements and more!
Join members of the Common Ground World team for a special edition of Gala Plays, tomorrow at 3pm PT, where they’ll share some excellent tips and tricks for pedaling onto the leaderboard crafting Bicycles! Set a notification at the link below:
NFT Reworks
The Common Ground World team has a pristine reputation of keeping everything fresh and constantly delivering new content that keeps player strategies sharp! In that spirit, each week this May, look for reworks of some of your favorite CGW NFT items. 👩🌾 Look for new and improved abilities and additional crafting options on previously released NFTs.
If you never got your hands on these buildings in the original sales, don’t worry! Along with the weekly reworks, we’re also re-releasing these buildings with a nice discount 🤑, giving you a fresh chance to work them into your CGW strategies.
Last Friday, new utility was announced for the following two NFTs, which have been re-released in the Common Ground World store with a 30% discount, while supplies last!
Epic Table of Appreciation
Previous Abilities:
Crafting Baguettes without Flour 20% faster
Crafting Pinot Noir 20% faster with only 4 Pinot Grapes (instead of 6)
Crafting Cheese 20% faster with only 1 Milk (instead of 2)
Crafting Pumpkin Pie 20% faster with only 5 Pumpkin, 4 Sugar, 8 Eggs
New (Upgraded) Abilities:
Crafting Baguettes without Flour 50% faster!
Crafting Pinot Noir 50% faster with only 3 Grapes!
Crafting Cheese 50% faster with only 1 Milk!
Crafting Pumpkin Pie 50% faster with only 3 Pumpkin, 2 Sugar, 4 Eggs!
Crafting Jam 50% faster with 5 Strawberries, 3 Sugar, and Water instead of Water Drum!
Don’t miss out on any of the mayhem happening all month long! There’s never been a better time to start playing Common Ground World than right now. With new features, constant content updates and strategy-boosting player-owned NFTs, Common Ground World is stronger than ever!
To hear about all the latest May Mayhem action directly from the team, check out the replay of last Friday’s Common Ground World Town Hall 👇 Tune in every Friday at 8am PT for the latest game updates and a rundown of the upcoming meta changes to prepare you for competition!
Common Ground World isn’t just a chill farming game with deep wells of strategic nuance… it also stands for regenerative agriculture and sustainable practices for food and resource production. These are issues that affect the entire planet.
We’re all on this rock together, and it’s our responsibility to do better. With Earth day coming up, we thought it was a good opportunity to not dwell in doom and gloom, but instead celebrate the efforts to make our planet healthier, long into the future. It’s time to let the community show off some of their epic talent while also showcasing the theme of sustainability and regenerative practices that are near and dear to our hearts.
Earth Day Art Competition
Theme: CGW Celebrates Earth Day
The time has come to muster your creativity and show us your talents! We’re calling for art from our community that relates in some way to both Common Ground World as well as our planet. Note that the planet is a pretty wide category… get creative and express a unique message!
Get out your paints or pencils… we’re staying organic on this one! Any type of physical art will be fair game during this competition. This means no graphic design software of any kind should be used… this also rules out digital paint or animation, even if executed by hand.
Your art must be a physical object that you can hold… painting, drawing, diorama, sculpture – all of that fits the bill! Get in and get your hands dirty to create something totally original!
This contest will begin on April 22nd, 2024 at 12pm PT.
Last submissions will be accepted on April 25th, 2024 at 12pm PT.
How to Enter
To enter, creators will need to take a picture of their physical art and share it on Discord and/or X. You can snap a pic of yourself holding it, or place it on a background where it can be clearly seen in all its glory!
If shared on X, submissions must:
Tag @CommonGroundWLD
Include the hashtag #CGWEarthDayEntry
We don’t want to miss your submissions, so make sure you follow the instructions!
On Discord, submissions should be shared in the cgw-discussion channel.
Participants can share either place, but you shouldn’t hesitate to share both places if you’d like!
Voting and Prizes
Starting on April 26th at 12pm PT, we’ll hold votes in Discord for the top five winners. This voting period will last three days, then we’ll announce winners shortly after!
The five top creators will receive Natural Energy Plants to commemorate their work and make their towns more sustainable for the planet!
We can’t wait to see all the amazing art submitted by the Common Ground World community. We know there are some amazingly talented people around town, and we’re anxiously awaiting to see what everyone creates!
The Common Ground World team is thrilled to announce and unveil a groundbreaking update to our beloved farming sim game.
As we continue to nurture and expand the vibrant ecosystem of Common Ground World on GalaChain, we’re preparing to introduce a game-changing new feature that has been highly anticipated by our dedicated fan base: Guilds.
Tied intrinsically to Common Ground World Node ownership, Guilds represent a new frontier. The unique blend of collaboration, strategy, and competition of Guild play will offer an all around game enhancement to our flagship game.
Very soon, Common Ground World Nodes will become the first tokenized Node licenses in the Gala Games ecosystem, as announced in this blog. Following the release of GalaChain’s first Node Workload NFTs, Common Ground World’s Node-powered Guilds are scheduled for release in late April 2024. This update is set to transform how players interact within the digital landscape of Common Ground World.
Building and Guilding: A New Chapter Begins
Any owner of a Common Ground World Node Workload NFT (once minted) will have the opportunity to create their own Guild. This pivotal step involves:
Selecting a Node upon which to form a Guild
Assigning a name for the Guild
Assigning a unique tag for the Guild
Creating a description for the Guild
Gathering up to 20 Guild members to share in the Guild’s benefits
Guild leaders are endowed with the power to curate their Guild NFT Library, which operates essentially like a real library. The Guild Leader may place NFTs within the Guild Library and those NFTs can then be checked out by a single player at a time. This system gives each Guild a new level of maneuverability, cooperation and strategic control, allowing Guildmates to plan and borrow NFTs from the Guild Library as needed to maximize their gameplay.
Screenshot is not final and might not represent the final product
Joining a Guild: Unite for Greater Achievements
The formation of Guilds opens the door for any Gala user without a Guild to join forces with others. By accepting an invitation or applying to a Guild, members can reap the benefits of all NFTs within the Guild Library.
Each Node Workload NFT will represent one Guild, and each Guild will allow up to 20 players. Basically, every worthy and dedicated player who wants to join a Guild will have access to one–They may even face a difficult decision about which Guild to join.
Guild membership amplifies each player’s prowess within the game while fostering a sense of camaraderie and collective achievement, uniting Guildmates through Guild Competitions.
The Competitive Spirit of Guilds
With the incorporation of Guilds into Common Ground World, we are setting the stage for an era of unparalleled cooperation, but also introducing a new level of competition. Guilds will engage in contests that challenge their strategic thinking, teamwork and dedication, giving each Guild regular opportunities to strive for victory within the game’s universe.
Empowering Players & Finding Common Ground
At Gala Games, our mission transcends the mere provision of gaming experiences. We are committed to leveraging the power of GalaChain to redefine the gaming industry, ensuring that players are not only participants but also beneficiaries of the digital worlds they inhabit.
Our early adopters’ patience will certainly be rewarded when it comes to Common Ground World Guilds, which we expect to rouse quickly as a key game feature. The tokenization of Common Ground World Node licenses and subsequent introduction of Guilds are a fantastic example of what GalaChain can do for gaming, and we’re barely scratching the surface.
As we march towards the launch of Common Ground World Guilds, we invite our community to join us in this exciting journey. Your passion, feedback, and engagement are the cornerstones of Common Ground World and its continued success in the Gala ecosystem. Let’s cultivate a world of unity, creativity, and competition, where every player has the opportunity to make their mark and thrive.
Join us every Friday from 8-9am PT for Common Ground World Town Hall, live on Youtube.
Stay tuned for more updates as we approach the Guild launch date. The future of Common Ground World, powered by GalaChain, is bright, and it is our community that lights the way.
It feels like just yesterday that Common Ground World was born, a web3 ownership enabled prototype called Town Star, created by some of the same genius minds that brought the world the Farmville franchise. Gala Games grew from an innovative startup to a global leader in web3 entertainment while this game kept growing all the while.
For the first issue of a new quarterly update series about each of our awesome games, Common Ground World was the perfect choice. Now let’s dig into some of the latest and greatest excitement for everyone’s favorite farming sim from Gala Games!
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Coming Soon for Common Ground World Nodes
In a massive step toward player empowerment and decentralization, Common Ground World Node licenses will soon be tokenized and minted on GalaChain, allowing owners to transfer and trade them as they please. Stay tuned for more updates on CGW Nodes!
Guilds are coming soon to CGW Nodes, currently on track for release before the end of Q1.
Later This Year
Later this year, Daily Challenges are making a triumphant return with a new and improved reward system. Look for more updates about that in the near future!
Thanks to the power and versatility of Gala’s L1 blockchain, GalaChain, Upgradeable NFTs are coming soon to Common Ground World, adding a new layer of strategic planning for collectors!
If those on the horizon updates weren’t enough, we’ll sweeten the anticipation by mentioning Consumable Boosts, joining the game later this year!
New Competition
This week’s competition runs 2/6 at 9am PT through 2/9 at 9am PT. For a powerful Star boost, players will be scrambling in their Stationary Shops to craft and sell Red Envelopes!
Weekly Town Hall
Join members of the Common Ground World team for a weekly live get together on the Gala Games Youtube channel, every Friday from 8-9am PT. Join the fun to get all the latest in the CGW community straight from the team, and to get your questions answered.
Check out last week’s CGW Town Hall through the link and don’t miss the new one this Friday morning!
Unfolding Fortune
The latest Common Ground World competition (found here in its entirety) is a fortunate one. In honor of Lunar New Year 2024, kicking off the year of the Dragon, CGW players are turning paper into symbols of fortune and luck by crafting and selling Red Envelopes for a substantial Star boost!
New NFTs
Every week, the Common Ground World team is dropping new limited NFT items in the CGW store. This week the hot new item is the Legendary Lantern Festival, pictured below.
Immerse yourself in the festive spirit with the all-new Lantern Festival NFT – a celebration of Lunar New Year that brings prosperity and joy!
Placement of this Legendary item quickens the pace of your Stationary Shop workers while cutting the production time in half for Bamboo Shoots and Red Envelopes, giving you a gameplay edge in the current competition. Get yours HERE.
