My Neighbor Alice has emerged as one of the crucial well-liked blockchain-based metaverse video games since launching in early 2023, but its creators have a lot larger plans in retailer. In the end, they purpose to make MNA a lot extra, making a digital universe that goes properly past the prevailing sport.
That’s in keeping with the sport’s enterprise director, Antonio Palma, who was requested about what the group has in retailer for customers within the coming yr throughout his look on the GeckoCon 2024 Web3 gaming occasion earlier this week.
Placed on the spot throughout a panel dialogue, Palma stated he’s comfortable to introduce three alphas that the My Neighbor Alice group has within the pipeline, with plans to introduce all of them someday in 2025.
In an effort to assist the sport scale and develop, Palma stated his group is presently engaged on a “new expertise” that can allow My Neighbor Alice to run on any gadget, together with cell units and tablets. He didn’t say a lot concerning the tech itself, however we will think about it includes some type of cloud-based streaming, given the sport’s present necessities for a PC working with Home windows 7 OS or newer, an Intel i5-6400/Ryzen 5 1600 or superior chipset, not less than 8GB of RAM and 6GB of cupboard space, plus an Nvidia or AMD-based GPU.
“We’re most likely one of many first Web3 video games to experiment with this expertise, and it’ll permit us to have our sport on any gadget, versus solely working on Home windows,” Palma stated.
The opposite side of the plan is to streamline the onboarding course of, which presently includes approach an excessive amount of effort for informal players.
“Proper now I feel we now have seven clicks wanted to get into the sport and get began, from making a pockets, signing up and so forth.,” Palma stated. “However we’ll get to only one click on in. We’ve been testing it, it’s actually complicated expertise and hopefully it’s going to be prepared subsequent yr.”
These updates ought to assist make the sport far more accessible to the type of non-crypto-native gamers that My Neighbor Alice says it’s attempting to draw. The sport itself is designed to introduce newcomers to the world of blockchain in a approach that’s enjoyable and pleasing, gently easing them into ideas resembling NFTs, wallets and crypto.
The sport could be considered a type of metaverse-based digital world, just like one thing like Minecraft or Animal Crossing, and permits gamers to create and discover digital worlds, collaborate with others and participate in numerous actions, resembling shopping for land, constructing, gathering bugs, farming, fishing and beekeeping.
Within the sport, gamers’ land, avatars, buildings, vegetation, bushes, flowers and animals are all represented by NFTs, and it supplies numerous easy-to-use instruments for them to personalize their digital worlds and manipulate the panorama. Gamers should purchase and promote these things by means of the in-game market, spending ALICE tokens that are earned by finishing missions, collaborating with others and profitable competitions. As soon as gamers have created their digital worlds, they’ll additionally monetize them in numerous different methods.
Palma stated the way in which the in-game financial system works is about to endure some huge adjustments. He revealed little or no, merely stating that “we’re testing a brand new financial system” and that we’d have one thing to announce relating to this and the ALICE token subsequent yr.
Final however not least, My Neighbor Alice seems eager to leverage its standing as one of the crucial well-liked Web3 video games by taking the chance to accomplice with numerous different gamers within the business, which might result in numerous integrations within the coming months.
“We have now secured an enormous partnership with one of many largest IPs within the area,” Palma stated. “We haven’t introduced something but as a result of we’re nonetheless constructing the expertise, and we by no means announce stuff till we now have constructed one thing first. However that is within the making and coming quickly.”
