“Off the Grid” is not your typical blockchain game.
Gunzilla Games, the studio behind the upcoming free-to-play multiplayer shooter, has “Chappie” and “District 9” director Neill Blomkamp as creative director and Warface developer Vlad Korolev as CEO. The company also has around 260 full-time employees working on the game and its cryptocurrency-powered ecosystem, Korolev shared. Decipher in an exclusive interview.
“Off the grid It’s a traditional multiplayer shooter [that] it puts your entire economy and progression on a chain,” Korolev said, adding that Blomkamp is overseeing all of the game’s visual effects, creative materials, and animations on a daily basis.
“Altered carbon” Author Richard K. Morgan is also writing narrative scripts for the game’s campaign, and celebrities, such as the singer known as Lights—I’ve recorded motion capture roles for the next game.
Gunzilla announced on Wednesday that it has launched the testnet for Gunz, its Avalanche-based dedicated blockchain subnet. The Gunz Subnet block chain scanner is also available, as is the testnet version of the Gunz NFT and crypto wallet for iOS and Android users. The Gunz wallet app will only work on the Gunz network and in-game ecosystem, so it’s worth noting that players will not be able to make withdrawals or transfers outside of the in-game environment with the app.
A screenshot of Technocore on iOS. Image: Decrypt/Gunzilla Games.
The studio has also released an iOS and Android companion game, Technocore, which allows players to find items that can be used in Off the Grid. Players who obtain equipment through Technocore will be able to trade them as NFTs on the studio’s official website. Gunz Market.
NFTs purchased on Technocore during Gunz’s testing phase will be transferred to the Gunz mainnet when it launches, but Gun tokens will not, according to a message displayed in the iOS version of the game.
GUYS I gotta do some motion capture and voice work on @playoffthegrid 😳😳 a cyberpunk battle royale directed by legend @NeillBlomkamp and starring icon Sharlto Copley 😳😳😳 I can’t think of anything more interesting. pic.twitter.com/SXlFA0UYo1
– Lights (@lights) November 25, 2023
Off the Grid will be released for PC players on the Epic Games Store, as well as PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S and X consoles.
The Gunz blockchain has already been tested with more than 840,000 transactions across 60,000 wallet addresses, according to the study’s scanner data. Gunzilla Games’ crypto ecosystem token, Gun, has not yet launched, but the studio plans to launch it on “centralized cryptocurrency exchanges” at a future date.
Korolev said Decipher that the idea for Off the Grid originated years ago while the executive and his now Gunzilla Games co-founder, Alex Zoll, were at Crytek developing the first-person shooter. war facewhich was released in 2013.
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Off the Grid’s vision is very ambitious: the team is creating a 60-hour narrative campaign and 150-player battle royale (BR) experience with over 300 different weapons and 30 different “cyber members,” launching its own crypto token and launching a dedicated blockchain network for its title with an NFT validation mechanism. Gunzilla says the Gunz subnet will support 10,000 NFT validators that can generate in-game assets and function as traditional blockchain nodes.
“We chose Avalanche because we couldn’t make it work on any other network,” Korolev said. Decipherin reference to the game’s extensive blockchain features.
Off the Grid multiplayer matches will take place in a sci-fi location called Teardrop Island, which is shaped like (you guessed it) a teardrop. But it’s actually quite big. Similar to Apex Legends’ Storm Point map, players will be able to engage in player-versus-player (PVP) and player-versus-environment (PVE) battles. But they will also be able to explore 13 unique points of interest ranging from nuclear reactors to factories and other industrial buildings.
And, in true Blomkampian style, players will be able to shoot and steal each other’s shots.cyber members”, which will come with its own weapon combinations and customization options.
The average Off the Grid match is not for the faint of heart. Plus the whole shooting off each other’s cyber limbs thing, Korolev said Decipher Estimate that the average match will last 38 minutes for the players who make it to the end.
“We have been working very hard for the past four years to make the world never boring for users who spend so much time there,” Korolev said.
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“In the age of TikTok, for experienced users, it is too boring to even watch YouTube. “It’s too boring for them to wait on the map for 10 minutes until they experience some interaction with the world,” the CEO added, highlighting a challenge that many FPS game developers face with multiplayer BR titles.
To keep players busy, there will also be non-playable characters (NPCs) and quests scattered around Teardrop Island during BR matches.
“We don’t have the same approach that other battle royales use with just a shrinking mechanic,” Korolev shared, referring to a growing ring of toxic energy or chemicals that forces players to advance to a smaller circle, like in titles like Fortnite . and Apex Legends.
“We have our own vision for this mode,” Korolev said of Off the Grid’s battle royale plans, hinting that more details will be shared soon.
Edited by Andrew Hayward.
