Gala is thrilled to announce a monumental partnership with PlanX, a pioneering force in blockchain gaming development, to usher in a new age of community-driven and ownership enabled gaming experiences. This collaboration is set to revolutionize the digital gaming landscape by fostering the growth of a game public chain ecosystem prioritizing fairness, transparency, and innovation.
Empowering Gamers with True Ownership and a Rich Gaming Experience
At the heart of our partnership with PlanX lies a shared vision to transform the gaming industry. Even when GalaChain was still just a vision in the minds of Gala’s blockchain wizards, we knew that gaming was one of the most important applications of this revolutionary tech. That’s why we started sharing the vision as Gala Games.
PlanX is an on-chain Steam platform that aggregates high-quality gaming projects and asset transactions, aligns with Gala Games’ mission to build a public game chain that serves as a foundation for a more equitable gaming world. Together, we aim to enhance the gaming industry by integrating the unique functionalities and advantages of the Gala chain into an array of game projects on the PlanX platform.
Our collaboration with PlanX will explore the vast potentialities of the game public chain ecosystem, leveraging Gala Chain’s technical prowess to deliver a gaming experience that is not only secure and efficient but also enriches player engagement through true digital asset ownership and seamless asset circulation.
A Revolutionary Step Towards an Innovative Gaming Future
Gala Games believes that blockchain technology holds the key to unlocking a new dimension of gaming. This partnership with PlanX is a significant milestone in our journey to revolutionize the gaming industry, signifying how far we’ve come.
This partnership is not just about technological integration; it’s about building a community and an ecosystem centered around incredible gaming experiences. PlanX and Gala Games will work together to organize community-engaging activities (both online and offline), and to launch innovative products and services. Our collective efforts aim to cultivate an open, inclusive, and innovative digital gaming realm, offering unparalleled gaming experiences to players worldwide.
Join Us in Shaping the Future of Gaming
Gala Games and PlanX invite gamers, developers, and blockchain enthusiasts to join us in this exciting venture. Together, we are not just creating games; we are crafting a new future for gaming – one that empowers players and celebrates community and ownership. Stay tuned for more updates as we embark on this journey to revolutionize the digital gaming space.
The wait is over, TCG gamers and fantasy enthusiasts! The eagerly anticipated PvP game of web3 trading cards is now live and absolutely free to play for both PC and Mac.
Trading card games are a perfect fit for web3, and with its 3D gameplay and unique competitive edge, Legends Reborn puts a fantastic twist on the beloved TCG formulas.
In the land of Tolkheim, citizens settle their disputes not through violence and war, but through strategic gameplay and the power of their decks. For anyone wishing for success in the fantasy land, skills in the card game known simply as Chance are of utmost importance. But there’s more to Chance cards than meets the eye–The ancient magic of Tolkeim is imbued within these mystical artifacts and can only be unleashed on the tables of battle.
Players build their best decks and compete against battle champions from all over the world in this visually stunning and strategically challenging card game. What really sets Legends Reborn apart is the players’ ability to truly own the cards they play with.
Own & Earn
Both Creature and Action cards can be owned as NFTs, making them fully transferable and tradable on GalaChain, or even bridgeable to Ethereum for trade on secondary markets there. All NFTs must be held in your GalaChain wallet to be usable in-game.
Following the initial Season 0, players of Legends Reborn will also enjoy opportunities to earn $TOLK (the upcoming official reward token) rewards for seasonal play.
Look for more detailed information on the game’s economy of ownership and rewards when the Litepaper is revealed later this week before the first reward season begins.
In a unique twist on the idea of virtual land, Chance Venues can also be owned by players as NFTs in the world of Legends Reborn. Once rewards are available, owners of these Venues are eligible for a share of the rewards generated by all battles that take place there.
Gala’s extraction FPS will employ a complex meta-economic system to ensure a truly unique player experience, no matter how you choose to enjoy the game.
The mysteries of Aura run deep. Hunters risk life and limb there to extract priceless resources and bits of tech. But under the terrifying surface, they can tell that nothing on Aura is as simple as it seems. There is more to this story than meets the eye.
Similarly, players of the cutting edge extraction FPS are tempted to get lost in the fight for survival as frightening predatory creatures threaten to rip them to pieces at every turn. They must cooperate with their team on each expedition, knowing that only a single team can escape alive from the hellish yet ore rich alien wasteland. To the survivors go the spoils. If players get the idea that the planet itself is conspiring against them, they may be onto something.
In-Game Currencies
Thanks to the power of GalaChain, many minted in-game currencies with a variety of purposes will be used to ensure a gripping player experience with virtually endless combinations and strategic choices.
With the recently released GalaSwap platform, it will be possible for users to swap various currencies for one another, and even for $GALA. This allows the in-game currencies to act as a system of rewards for the game. Dedicated players will be driven to increase their skills and extraction prowess by sinking their in-game rewards back into upgrades and items like new characters, new weapons and ammo, skills, skins, emotes, and more.
Some currencies are rewarded as seasonal or daily missions are completed and used to make crucial upgrades that will enhance your ability to survive and extract cores in increasingly difficult servers. Others are more important on a meta level, gradually revealing the secrets of Aura in a thrilling Last Expedition narrative that will unfold.
Notarium
In today’s overview we’re focusing on Notarium, the most desirable resource that can be found on Aura. Notarium is named for the Notari, a cryptic race whose unimaginably advanced tech has invaded this previously harmless colony planet, changing the landscape into a fiendish death zone inhabited only by bloodthirsty killers.
The amount of Notarium that can be extracted from any instance of Aura is dependent on the threat level of that server. A threat level is assigned to each server based on the number of Creature Mods used by the server’s OP–Essentially, as the PvE element in a mission grows stronger, more Notarium is available for harvesting.
Using Notarium
Other than trade within GalaChain, the primary use for Notarium is purchasing minted items (NFTs). Its secondary use is for crafting higher level Meta game recipes.
For OPs, this means purchasing new OP Mod NFTs for their server, increasing the threat level and, as a result, increasing the amount of Notarium that can be harvested by players in that server. Types of OP Mods include:
Creature NFTs
PvE Mods
Server Mods
For Hunters, Notarium is used for high level meta game crafting. Look for more information about crafting in an upcoming blog. In the current Early Access build, players enjoy access to a plethora of killer items and supplies, many of which will require crafting when the final live version of the game is released.
Only One Team can Make it Out
When 4 teams take on Aura in an attempt to extract with the Notari Core, only one can make it off the planet alive. This means that while every player can harvest Notarium and other resources during the expedition, only one team gets to keep what was harvested – the team that successfully extracts.
On top of that, if the server’s predators are victorious, no one escapes alive with the precious alien tech gathered. In these cases, the server OP gets to keep the Nortarium, along with the other resources sought by hunters of Aura.
Different Perspectives
Last Expedition looks very different to average players than it does to OPs who manage their own servers. Everyone is equally interested in gathering Notarium, and how you do it depends on your role.
The Player Experience: Grinding for Glory
Remember, the hunter characters looking to get rich on Aura have nothing to lose. They have traveled to a remote mining platform at the furthest reaches of known space in hopes of getting their hands on some of the most valuable tech resources in the known universe. With Aura so full of such precious resources, these brave (or foolish) hunters have looked past the danger to the rewards at the mission’s end.
Players are looking to enhance their ability to emerge from Aura with more resources. Therefore, they will continually enhance their arsenals and collections in order to win more matches.
Many aspects of the player experience will require strategic resource hunts. Weapons, ammo, and even characters will require resource expenditure to unlock as you make your way on Aura.
The OP Experience: Controllers of Aura
A huge focus of the Last Expedition experience is for those who operate Nodes (OPs) and run their own servers in the game. In many ways, operating a server is a game of its own, requiring strategic attention and rewarding those who are most effective.
“Victory” for an OP means that every team was destroyed by Aura’s predators and no one escaped with the Notarium that was harvested. Node operators work for the Notari AI construct that is programmed to terraform the planet of Aura. Therefore, OP’s are direct beneficiaries of failed extraction missions, taking the harvested Notarium for the Notari in their continued mysterious efforts.
When you create an Aura with your server that is enticing but also punishing, you’ll draw the bravest hunters into your trap and clean up everything they manage to harvest. As you collect the Notarium that came from the spilled blood of hunters, you can use it to increase the threat level and difficulty of your Aura.
Next to Come
Over the coming weeks, we will release a series of articles with more information about Last Expedition’s economic nuances, including details on things like crafting, storage and rewards. Look for more details about:
Meta Game recipes (crafting)
Blueprints
The backstory of Aura
StashCoin, CharacterCoin & XP
Minerals (LEMIN), Fragment Chunks (LEFC) & Core Chunks (LECC)
The immensity of the galaxy is starting to feel like a powder keg of competition and conquest, as things are heating up in Echoes of Empire. In the time that the Empire’s rule stretched throughout known space, it was easy to point fingers and cast blame–Now that the remnant noble houses are grappling for power and control, everyone is getting an idea of the sheer brutality left by the Empire’s absence.
Whether you support the Garrison’s military might, the Arbeiters’ merchant-driven diplomacy or the dignified ancestry and heavy hand of the Royals, now is the time to take what’s yours in the galaxy. Play for free, upgrading and building your Homebase into a formidable force that will make your enemies think twice before trying to take what you have earned.
Mine resources from Celestial Objects owned by other players to earn Stardust. Every day, 50% of each player’s Stardust is burned, locking in that player’s share of the daily $GALA reward distribution. But beware! Everyone is looking for more Stardust and your excess is just a raid away, so be sure to build up a force ready to defend your base!
Upcoming Features & Upgrades
Here is a rundown of the upcoming features slated to be added to the live game, starting with the most immediate high priority additions.
High Priority–Coming Soon
Capital Ship Combat Update
The team will soon refactor the combat system for Capital Ships, calculating damage procedurally among defenders and adding a cap to the total number of defending Capital Ships at any given time.
Real-time Player Fleet Movement
Players will soon have the ability to monitor the movement of other players’ fleets on the map, giving everyone an opportunity to detect incoming attacks and enemy mining operations. To maintain optimal performance, this feature will be capped to a user-adjusted number of viewable enemy fleets.
PvE Combat
The game’s first PvE battles will soon be added to Echoes of Empire, allowing players to attack certain Celestial Objects with a variety of enemy themes, presenting new challenges and rewards. Defeating these celestial “villains” means an opportunity to gather new types of resources.
Leaderboard
Giving players a chance to compare themselves to the top players in the game at any time, the player leaderboard will look at crucial stats like combat power and Stardust owned.
Rally Attacks
Rallies are a new type of multi-fleet attack that will let players invite comrades and guildmates to help defeat a powerful foe. Players will start Rally attacks, then additional supporters will have an opportunity to join the attack with their own fleets before it commences.
Guilds
The first Guild system is coming soon to Echoes of Empire, including Guild formation, applications, moderation and spatial UI support.
Medium Priority–Coming a Bit Later
Chat Features
This update within the coming months will add basic chat functionality into the game, for both global and Guild-based chat functions.
Territory Control Nodes
This update will bring a new type of Guild focused Celestial Object onto the board. When a Territory Control Node is taken by a Guild, bonus stats will be given to members of that Guild within a set proximity of that Celestial Object.
Owned Celestial Object Upgrades
This is a large upgrade for owners of Celestial Objects, claimed using Celestial Claim Tokens. Buildings on owned Celestial Objects will receive stat boosts and additional functions, such as defenses and increases to inventory space.
Flagship Modules and Crafting
Players will have the ability to create modules to be added to their Flagships, increasing various stats and enhancing their Flagships.
On the Distant Horizon
Skill Tree
The Echoes of Empire skill tree will enhance the strategic choices of every player. Players will spend in-game resources and time to train in new skills with the potential to elevate a variety of core stats.
Login Rewards
A robust system of daily login rewards will incentivize players to login on a regular basis. New rewards will unlock each day and players will receive anything from in-game resources to utility items such as shields and teleporters.
In-app Purchase Bundles
This update will bring more variety and value to in-game purchasing by allowing players to spend credits on bundles to receive multiple items with single purchases.
New Ships
With changing the game’s strategic combat meta, a new variety of cosmetically enhanced ships will become available, including pirate variants.
*** With all these features coming to Echoes of Empire, the galactic mayhem has only just begun. This is the perfect time to take advantage of the calm before the storm, building your Homebase into something ready to survive in the aftermath of the Empire and build a legacy for your noble house. The galaxy is yours. Take it!
If you haven’t started playing Champions Arena yet, this might be the perfect time to build a collection of NFT Champions and hit the arena!
For one week, we’re adding $1k in $GALA every day to the Champions Arena reward pool, giving players an opportunity to earn even more rewards!
The Infusion Event runs Friday, March 1st through Friday, March 8th.
Lots of Ways to Play
With its strong focus on RPG combat mechanics, Champions Arena is a truly unique experience for players, created by RPG megafans who grew up playing the classics. With well over a hundred individual Champions to collect, each with a set of unique abilities, the combinations are virtually endless.
Collect daily rewards and blast through PvE campaign battles to buff your collections and craft the perfect team of Champions. Then when you’re ready, hit the PvE arena and play with NFT Champions to earn victory points, which translate each day into $GALA in the daily reward distribution.
You can even collect in-game (non-NFT) Champions, then mint your favorites into NFTs by purchasing and spending the corresponding number of Minting Scrolls in-game. Once minted, your Champions are yours to play and earn with, or even to list on a secondary market or bridge to another blockchain.
Exciting Updates
There’s always something new in Champions Arena, from new Champions to exclusive rewards, from limited time promos to increased drop rate events. Anytime is a great time to start building that Champion collection and playing on your favorite mobile device. Browse NFT Champions on the OpenSea secondary market here.
