Understand Alien Worlds in Three Minutes: A Space Exploration Game that Combines DeFi, NFT, and DAO

Written by: Groot

Since last summer, the successive outbreaks of DeFi and NFT concepts have contributed to the longest bull market in cryptocurrency history. However, just as the highly composable feature that DeFi relied on during its rapid development creates a 1+1>2 effect, the possibility of stacking these concepts has actually provided greater imaginative space for the on-chain world after the rise of NFTs this year.

The Alien Worlds introduced in this article is a space exploration game that integrates multiple popular concepts such as DeFi, NFT, DAO, and the metaverse, focusing on themes like land mining, NFT card games, and DAOs.

What is Alien Worlds?

Alien Worlds, translated into Chinese as 外星世界, is a space exploration game developed by Dacoco GmbH based on the WAX public chain. Alien Worlds offers players land ownership, the ability to deploy tools, soldiers, and weapons, and to customize their own game characters. It is a multi-chain NFT DeFi metaverse game that currently supports Ethereum, WAX, and BSC.

Alien Worlds combines DeFi and metaverse concepts, bringing mining and other DeFi ideas into the NFT gaming space. In a virtual world set in 2055, it offers a total of 3343 plots of land across 7 planets for players to explore, where they can also engage in yield mining and PvP.

The planets and land in the game come with data such as planetary mining canisters and land commission rates, which directly affect the yield performance of mining within the game. Additionally, land has a series of more detailed metrics such as land coefficients, mining difficulty, and NFT luck values, which relate to mining efficiency and the chances of players obtaining NFT assets. However, users do not need to operate during the mining process; they can simply wait for a certain period and then claim the mined TLM tokens and NFTs with one click.

The TLM tokens and NFTs obtained through mining can be traded for cash on on-chain markets. NFT assets can be traded on AtomicHub or other NFT trading markets. TLM can be exchanged for WAX tokens on the Alcor exchange or transferred to Binance, FTX, or other exchanges that support TLM tokens using cross-chain tools.

New Gameplay: Mission Mode

In addition to the basic mining gameplay, Alien Worlds has launched a new mission mode on the BSC network. Players can send virtual spaceships in the missions mode throughout the metaverse to obtain in-game NFT items, and they can also participate in various activities organized by different player communities to acquire minted NFTs.

Players can use TLM to send spaceships on each mission to receive shares of the rewards in the token reward canisters. Additionally, each player will receive a unique mission commemorative NFT. The first phase of the mission mode launched on the BSC network includes a total of 8 different mission NFT cards, and this feature will also apply to future games based on NFT game cards.

All players in the community can freely participate in the "Explorer Missions," and all activity records are stored on the blockchain, meaning that the activities themselves are highly transparent and fairer for players.

Token TLM

The Alien Worlds ecosystem has two types of currencies: one is the NFT token representing in-game items, or simply put, game props or assets in NFT form. The other is the ERC20 standard protocol token TLM (Trilium), which plays a more important role in the ecosystem. Players can earn TLM through mining in the game and can stake TLM in the planet's DAO to participate in governance and decision-making. Additionally, players need to pay TLM to purchase or upgrade items, and participating in certain missions and activities also requires TLM payment.

The total issuance of TLM is 10 billion tokens, with the following distribution ratios: seed round sale 13.75%, pre-sale round sale 6.69%, Binance Launchpool sale 2.92%, team reserve 14.6%, ecosystem reserve 14.24%, marketing cost reserve 9.24%, initial liquidity provision reserve 5.84%, advisor allocation 5.35%, staking rewards reserve 3.41%. The remaining portion will be reserved for external protocols, ecosystem participation rewards, and security audit costs.

How to Play Alien Worlds?

After registering a WAX wallet, users can authorize login on the Alien Worlds game homepage. After logging in, they can set their game nickname and character appearance.

Once the basic information is set, users can enter the planet selection page, where it is recommended to choose planets with the highest possible planetary mining canister values, as this value relates to the future mining potential of that planet. After that, they will enter the land selection page, and upon confirmation, they can proceed to the mining page.

Once mining begins, users do not need to perform manual operations; they just need to wait for the mining to succeed and then click Claim to receive TLM token rewards and the mined NFT assets.

To mine again, users can click on Mining Hub in the game to enter the mining center and wait for the countdown to end before proceeding to the next mining session.

In addition, users can stake TLM tokens in the game to improve TLM mining efficiency and participate in the governance of the planets. Staking can be done through the Staking button on the game's main page, where players can choose any of the six planets to stake. It is important to note that staked tokens can only be unstaked and claimed after 48 hours.

Conclusion

According to official data, as of September 2021, the number of player accounts in Alien Worlds has reached 3,328,707, with daily active players numbering 269,985.

Although the current blockchain games may not yet rival traditional AAA titles in terms of graphics and gameplay richness, the shift from "Free to Play" to "Play to Earn" has infused new vitality into blockchain gaming. The concept of earning while playing has facilitated rapid development in the blockchain gaming sector over the past few months and has led to a new round of accelerated growth in NFTs. For the more innovative Alien Worlds, beyond the rapidly growing user data, there is actually a future that is even more worth looking forward to.