What in the world of metaverses is Star Atlas?
In the world of metaverses and upcoming crypto/NFT play-to-earn games, Star Atlas has earned the title of most highly awaited, most ambition AAA game coming to blockchain.
“A grand strategy game of space exploration, territorial conquest, and political domination.”
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It is hard to describe how ambitious this game really is. Their tagline on the website reads: “The next level of reality has begun.” Imagine building a team who’s job it was to create a new digital reality built on the Solana high speed blockchain, with millions of in game events tracked by real world transactions of digital assets (collectible NFTs) in real time. Assets acquired in the game can later be exchanged for real-world currency.
The game is being built on the next-gen Unreal engine 5. Start Atlas is a simulation of the distant future, in the year 2620. The story in the trailer goes, “Legend has it, there is a diamond out there the size of a planet, and everyone is out to find it. So I guess it all comes down to one thing. Who will find it first?” The main gameplay is layered. There is grand strategy, a large overview perspective on the enterprise of the metaverse, its land and resource ownership and operation. In game, players will explore with flight simulation, colonize, mine, trade, battle and earn their way across a virtual galaxy divided between three warring factions. Players choose between the MUD territory run by humanity, the ONI region governed by a consortium of alien races, and the Ustor Sector controlled by sentient androids.
It is not meant to be easy to run a business in the game, it’s meant to be hard. You have to keep track of your operating expenses, and net earnings.
Every visible star in the game is a place you can fly your own minted NFT starship.
There will be three major realms: one low risk where you grind away and learn the game while building your assets and in-game resources, a medium risk realm where battling is allowed but assets are frozen, and a third realm in the far reaches of space where players battle with the risk/reward of either gaining or losing tradable NFT assets in the ultimate test of skill.
About the Star Atlas Team:
Star Atlas was founded by CEO Michael Wagner, COO Pablo Quiroga, and head of operations Deb Lucas. Before founding Star Atlas, Michael Wagner worked at Multichain Ventures, a company producing blockchain-focused products. Pablo Quiroga founded a supplement startup and worked in biotechnology before co-founding Star Atlas. Deb Lucas worked at Charles Schwab and Barclays.
The AAA game developers behind Star Atlas includes Hamza Raza of Unreal Engine expertise, who has worked for Ubi Soft and Blizzard. This is just the tip of the iceberg, with the full team available to view here.
Star Atlas Tokenomics:
There are two Star Atlas cryptocurrencies in circulation. The first one is your basic source of money to buy digital assets in the game, and earn from your play to earn exploits. This currency is known as Atlas, and it is currently trading at $.08. The current CoinMarketCap ranking is #271, with a live market cap of $187,259,610 USD. It has a circulating supply of 2,160,000,000 ATLAS coins and a max. supply of 36,000,000,000 ATLAS coins.
If you would like to know where to buy Star Atlas, the top exchanges for trading in Star Atlas are currently FTX, ZT, Bitrue, MEXC, and AEX.
The other cryptocurrency of Star Atlas is for storage of value and governance, the DAO token: (POLIS). Players who hold Polis can vote to effect the evolution of the game, helping decide the fate of the metaverse. There is even the intriguing possibility of POLIS being used to outvote the creators of the metaverse themselves.
The current CoinMarketCap ranking is #294, with a live market cap of $158,023,335 USD. It has a circulating supply of 21,600,000 POLIS coins and a max. supply of 360,000,000 POLIS coins.
If you would like to know where to buy Star Atlas DAO, the top exchanges for trading in Star Atlas DAO are currently FTX, ZT, MEXC, Raydium, and AscendEX (Bitmax).
Galactic Assets Offering and Early Game Access
The initial Galactic Asset Offering is running from Sept. 7 until supply runs out. To participate, go to StarAtlas.com and click on the “Play Now,” feature. You will need to connect a supported wallet.
Star Atlas also plans to update the NFT marketplace and NFT release schedule to distribute and trade in-game assets. Moreover, by being integrated with the Serum DEX, ATLAS token holders will have the option to provide liquidity, or sell and buy their token holdings. There is no word on when these features will be added, and we are still super early in terms of the game’s full release.
There is potential for an early mini-game/beta version of the game releasing as early as Q4 2021. Stay tuned for more updates on this ambitious new metaverse play to earn game.