Inspiration
This project started with two friends who were colleagues at elementary, high school and college who always dreamed of making a game together. We've always been gamers since kids when online gaming wasn't a thing yet and we played it all. Beuz started messing around the crypto market and I, Guto, was introduced to it by him too. We knew the potential that it had.
We saw games pop out for different blockchains by the minute but no game yet had the aspect of a real game, only mobile simple games that people make to rip money out of others. It's like cryptocurrency traders were building games and not games being built on blockchain by gamers.
This is were Arcadia enters the room. We understand the concepts, we know the limitations and we sure need to learn a lot more but we are fully focused and willing to develop a game that won't be another random number generator monster battle game, we don't want to just make a crypto game, we want to make a difference.
Arcadia, discover the daemons.
Arcadia is coming to change this scenario with a game that will indeed revolutionize the NFT gaming environment, setting high bars for it's competition.
What is Arcadia?
Arcadia is a three dimensional NFT monster and social game completely skill based where players will battle on PvE and PvP modes, exploring a vast world map on different instances and also be able to roam around other players fully customized lands and socialize.
What makes us different from others?
Our focus is to bring the NFT and gaming community a real unique game without stock images or models. You won't see pieces of our game anywhere because we want to achieve total originality. We are doing all our bests to build an entire new and original concept of game and design, models and images so you can be sure that we are not messing around or trying to lure people into fake promises. This is a dream to become true for the head developers.
Game Story
In a very technological but not distant universe, a holding called PANDORA found out about a new type of life that was discovered in an excavation and placed all their bets on it it to try and make profits. That was when Pandora funded and started the PANDORA LAB, a laboratory made specifically to study and evolve this new form of life that was yet very unknown to human kind.
Pandora Lab studied the new form of life and made synthetic Zygotes of many kinds and once these are incubated they generate monsters. As Pandora Lab was testing and studying this new form of life they accidentally -or at least it's what they say- released a large number of Daemons on the world and they started reproducing, making new unknown monsters, more aggressive and violent, not towards humans but other monsters. The Lab has an uninteresting scientific name for these monsters but people around the streets started calling them DAEMONS, due to their aggressive nature.
It was when the Lab said they could no longer track the released daemons and they were providing shelter for people who lived in Arcadia to leave it, so they launched the whole city of Arcadia to the sky using expansive anti-gravity technology so the Daemons would be left alone and wouldn't feel the need to leave the place. They then created the Floating Isles of Arcadia.
Now Pandora needs peoples help to bring them back, so they are about to sell zygotes to common people so they could battle and bring these nature daemons back to the lab so they can be held and taken care of.
Pandora Inc. is the company responsible for buying the discovered new form of life. The people involved in Pandora are unknown and they want to keep their identities hidden as long as possible since Pandora makes use of living beings for scientific experiments and rumors already started spreading around Arcadia. Once Pandora acquired this new life form, the group of investors funded the Pandora Lab, they began scientific projects to try to produce a way and profit from it. It was then that the Lab introduced their invention, the synthetic zygotes.
Pandora Lab, the laboratories owned by Pandora Inc. that produced the first zygotes and made possible for daemons to exist in Arcadia.
Also Pandora Lab along with Pandora Inc. is much criticized for being responsible for releasing violent daemons around Arcadia. Rumors say that Pandora Lab made it on purpose to spread need for common people to buy and own their own daemons, since just when daemons were released they announced the first zygote sale.
Gameplay
Arcadia will have two different camera angles depending on the game mode. For players who will be playing PvE on map exploring, exploring lands, socializing and completing the game storyline there will be an over the shoulder third person camera, so players can feel close to others when socializing and exploring the map and story.
When entering the PvP mode, we want to make a MOBA-like game inspired on Battlerite, a PvP free to play MOBA that has no minions or objectives, it's simple skill based 1v1, 2v2 or 3v3 fight.
Example image of Battlerite gameplay
Our goal is to make a completely skill based and well balanced PvP where you'll be able to earn AAA by winning these battles, always fighting against players of the same level.
We want to make Arcadia a instance based game, like in Path of Exile, where players can explore the map by themselves or in parties without having to fight for farming hot spots.
Although the map exploring will be instanced, we want to make towns and villages one instance only so players can interact with each other and trade in-game items.
Game design and aesthetics.
As we started developing this project and game we changed many times between ideas. We finally came into the best idea we've agreed upon, which can be more difficult than others but we are fully committed to make this happen. Our game will be a three dimensional game with thick borders and cel shading, focusing on examples like Borderlands and Skullgirls.
[1]Streamable Gameplay Example
Zygotes Gen-1
First NFTs
Get ready for the first ever batch of zygotes from PANDORA LAB that can be minted specially for you. Here's the possibilities of zygotes to be bought.
Each Zygote have it's own particularities, being a specific type and specialization. The list of rarity goes:
Zygote Species C - Epic B - Rare A - Common
Zygote Types 1 (Spikes) - Epic 2 (Rings) - Rare 3 (Flagella) - Common
Zygote Specialization Advanced - Epic Intermediate - Rare Basic - Common
Rarity
Daemons
Incubation of zygotes
Once your zygotes are incubated, they will become daemons in no time.
Daemons will be random and each daemon will have an unique ID and four different skills, two of them based on it's element. Elements we'll be having are: Rock, Plant, Fire, Water, Shock and Chaos.
Daemons also can evolve into stronger daemons of the same species. Attributes will be randomly generated when the evolution occurs.
Token
ARCADIA (AAA) will be the main token behind Arcadia game, it will be used for trading zygotes and daemons on marketplace, betting on battles at the Coliseum and also buying daemon mechanical parts from Pandora Mech.
Tokenomics
- Liquidity: Of course every coin needs liquidity pool for transactions and we were thinking about making this smaller but it's safer to have a larger pool so we have scared investors willing to takes risks by trusting our project.
- Security Audits: Again, to make it look safer cause we know how risky and dangerous the crypto roads are so we want to invest in audits proving we are the real deal.
- Advisers: As we started in gaming community, we've seen games being made but not as much coins being developed and crypto games being created from scratch we might need external help to guide us into the good light. Money will be well spent into this subject.
- Marketing: Showing unknowers what we got. Don't worry, we are not planning on releasing music videos using your money, our marketing strategy will all be well thought and open for discussion too.
- Private Sale: As all coins have it, you better fight to be the first.
- Foundation: Operation costs to keep the train alive. Quality comes over quantity, and quality comes with a price. It's important to keep in mind that we don't want to host our websites on any free services that can't take the smallest amount of investors, we want to provide quality.
- Public Sale: If you didn't get back then, go get it now while it's cheap.
- Investors: We have the idea, the dream, the need and the will, but unfortunately we lack the green. Investors are here to help us out on this subject.
- Team: It's important to pay our team members for the amount of work they've put into already and the much more we are going to make them do. Every cent in this percentage will be covered by sweat and tears. Also, this percentage will be vested, again, to bring more security for fearful buyers that don't know who they are dealing with.
- Tournaments, In-game Incentives and Airdrops: Earning in this game won't be running in straight lines catching monsters or rolling a dice trying to get the higher number, we want to make a play to earn game where players will be very committed to playing and earning, having fun with it. Gaming shouldn't be a job, gaming should be fun and relaxing. We know that we can achieve this for our player while they earn. We've already thought about a few mechanics on play-2-earn but we won't spoil it right ahead.
Play to Earn
With Arcadia players won't feel the pain of playing a runner game over and over while trying to earn coins, we want to make a fun game, skill based where players can earn by really enjoying themselves as they play.
We want to entertain and touch not only gamers and crypto traders that have money to purchase their first zygote right on the start to rush game features and participate in all the content creation and chance to earn prizes but also for those players that doesn't have the possibility to do so we are going to prepare a free 2 play mode where people who can't afford a zygote and daemon can also earn some amount of coins to finally buy their zygotes or daemons and have the full experience of Arcadia.
Of course the free 2 play mode won't have all the content and players still need to grind and get to really enter the Arcadia world and experience, so this version of the game will have simple loot drops from PvE environment and wealthy players who don't want to grind because there will be plenty of game content for them to rush, they will be buying these much needed but not expansive loots from the marketplace, specifically from free-2-play and low level zone players.
This is all ideas that we have thought about and still all subject to change but we want to include everyone into the Arcadia universe and experience all that we have dreamed of building.
Experienced players will be grinding their mechanical parts to build mech attachments and make their daemons stronger so they can win battles and tournaments that we'll be making inside the game and outside. We have lots of plans for that. All the loot dropped will be NFTs to be sold on marketplace.
Roadmap
Community
Team
Our team isn't against doxxing themselves but only for the time being we will remain secret until the time comes and we start making AMAs, gaming lives and such. Until then, here's the team.
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