We’re glad to introduce our partner building on Sui – Cosmocadia, one of the first gaming NFT project. Let’s discover what it is all about!
Concept
Cosmocadia is a play-and-earn community-based farming game – farm; buy and sell resources; own lands; build furniture, buildings & different items; participate in various events; and have fun with your community and friends! The game is planned to be available on both web and mobile platforms.
According to the team, the main goal is to build a fun game; blockchain thing goes after that.
Since it’s gonna be a play-and-earn game, there will be 2 main NFT collections heavily integrated in the game – the Avatar Genesis collection & Private lands.
However, at some stage there will be a possibility to play totally for free – users will be able to obtain both avatars and lands, so the gameplay shouldn’t vary a lot.
Genesis NFT Avatars
Total supply: 11,111
“An NFT avatar is needed to play the game until free-to-play is added at a later development stage. NFT avatars have different physical traits with several varieties that specify their rarity.”
The traits differ not only visually, but effect the gameplay as well. The more rare it is, the more perks it brings:
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Increase the chance of getting rare NFTs in the future drops;
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Short the production time of items;
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Short the growth time for crops & trees;
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Increase quantity of harvested crops & fruits;
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More to be revealed.
Moreover, these avatars can act as NPCs doing some tasks on your land while you’re offline. As more avatars you have, as more parallel tasks can be executed. However, this feature won’t be available upon launch, but will be integrated at some later stage.
Benefits for holders:
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Token drops
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Item drops
Lands
Total supply: TBA (will be released in batches)
As was said, there will be 2 types of lands: public & private. While public lands will be free, private lands will be NFTs which grant you several perks:
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Limit who you play with;
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Decorate on your own way;
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Processing and growth times are shorter;
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Use several avatars as NPCs;
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More to be revealed.
Owning a land allows you to build a variety of buildings: dungeons, bars, shops or a maze to interact with your friends and carry out some funny events.
Free-to-play gameplay
We know many players prefer not to invest in a game, at least until they try it. Once again, there won’t be a possibility to try the game on its early stage, so you have to wait until the free-to-play version is released. For now, we can familiarize with the future procedures. The Cosmocadia team greatly explained it in their docs:
“New players that do not have an avatar NFT imported when opening the game are given access to a selection of free avatars to choose from. This free non-NFT avatar cannot be traded on any marketplace and does not have any benefits, unlike their NFT counterparts.
Players using a non-NFT character can play the entire game. Free-to-Play players can join in on events and earn rewards including NFTs and Tokens through their contributions. When playing with a non-NFT avatar, all NFTs and other on-chain items are off-chain until a purchase has been made. They can also join people’s private land, or work on their own, although private land is an NFT that has to be bought or rented. When a player, both Free-to-Play or NFT, opens up the game, the controls are always briefly shown.”
Play-and-earn gameplay
There will be various ways for players to receive on-chain rewards while playing the game:
- Be a top contender during events:
Participate in events and earn maximum of available rewards.
- Achievement system:
Earn various rewards by progressing through the game: items, NFTs & tokens.
- Login rewards:
Simply play on a daily basis and receive appropriate rewards: items, NFTs & tokens.
- Rent out land:
Rent your land and receive some % of the rewards generated by a player.
- Rent out avatars:
Having several avatars? Rent some and earn even more rewards.
- Offer your services:
If you’re a baron with multiple lands who doesn’t want to spend hours on taking care of things – just find a player who will do so. Pay him well, and both of you are happy.
Summarizing
One more thing before we finish. The game is being built by the studio called Lucky Kat, an experienced team of mobile game developers with more than 200M downloads.
Unfortunately, we can’t cover all the information available about the game. Our goal was to highlight the most important and interesting parts. We encourage you to go through the official docs to get a broader view of the things.
Official resources of Cosmocadia:
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Article prepared by @macevoy_eth – team member of Sui Ecosystem.