My Neighbor Alice’s Antonio Palma Hints At Some Massive Updates Coming Soon

My neighbor Alice has turn out to be probably the most standard blockchain-based metaverse video games since its launch in early 2023, however its creators have a lot greater plans in retailer. Finally, they wish to make MNA a lot extra and create a digital universe that goes far past the present recreation.

That is in accordance with the sport’s enterprise director, Antonio Palma, who was requested what the crew has in retailer for customers within the coming yr throughout his look on the GekkoCon 2024 Web3 gaming occasion earlier this week.

Placed on the spot throughout a panel dialogue, Palma favored to say introducing three alphas which the My Neighbor Alice crew has within the pipeline, with plans to introduce all of them someday in 2025.

To assist the sport scale and develop, Palma stated his crew is at the moment engaged on a “new know-how” that can enable My Neighbor Alice to run on any system, together with cell units and tablets. He did not say a lot concerning the know-how itself, however we would think about it entails some type of cloud-based streaming given the sport’s capabilities. existing requirements for a PC with Home windows 7 OS or newer, an Intel i5-6400/Ryzen 5 1600 or superior chipset, at the very least 8 GB of RAM and 6 GB of storage, plus an Nvidia- or AMD-based GPU.

“We’re most likely one of many first Web3 video games to experiment with this know-how, and it’ll enable us to have our recreation on any system, as a substitute of simply on Home windows,” Palma stated.

The opposite side of the plan is streamlining the onboarding course of, which is at the moment far an excessive amount of effort for informal players.

“Proper now I feel we’d like seven clicks to get into the sport and get began, from making a pockets, signing up, and so on.,” Palma stated. “However we enter with only one click on. Now we have examined it, it’s actually complicated know-how and hopefully will probably be prepared subsequent yr.”

These updates ought to make the sport rather more accessible to the type of non-crypto-native gamers My Neighbor Alice says it is attempting to draw. The sport itself is designed to introduce newcomers to the world of blockchain in a manner that’s enjoyable and pleasant, gently introducing them to ideas like NFTs, wallets, and crypto.

The sport may be seen as a sort metaverse-based virtual worldmuch like one thing like Minecraft or Animal Crossing, and permits gamers to create and discover digital worlds, collaborate with others and have interaction in numerous actions resembling shopping for land, constructing, amassing bugs, farming, fishing and beekeeping.

Within the recreation, gamers’ land, avatars, buildings, vegetation, timber, flowers and animals are all represented by NFTs, and it gives a number of easy-to-use instruments that enable them to personalize their digital worlds and manipulate the panorama. Gamers should buy and promote this stuff by means of the in-game marketplaceexpenditure ALICE tokens which you earn by finishing missions, teaming up with others and profitable competitions. As soon as gamers have created their digital worlds, they will additionally monetize them in a number of different methods.

Palma stated the way in which the in-game financial system works will see some massive adjustments. He revealed little or no, merely stating that “we’re testing a brand new financial system” and that we might have one thing to announce about this and the ALICE token subsequent yr.

Final however not least, My Neighbor Alice appears to be seeking to leverage its standing as probably the most standard Web3 video games by taking the chance to collaborate with a number of different gamers within the business, which might result in a number of integrations within the coming months to steer.

“Now we have signed a significant partnership with one of many largest IPs within the house,” Palma stated. “We’ve not introduced something but as a result of we’re nonetheless constructing the expertise, and we by no means announce something till we have constructed one thing first. However that is within the works and coming quickly.”