Earth From Another Sun raises $4.5M for sandbox space conquest game
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Earth From Another Sun (EFAS) has raised $4.5 million in funding to create its sandbox space conquest game. It’s one of many blockchain games in the works in the game industry, but it has been in development for a while and has paying players.
The funding came from Solana Ventures, Alameda Research, and Lightspeed.
EFAS has a team of game veterans from Riot Games, Gameloft, Disney Interactive, Kylotonn, IGG, and Perfect World.
The space conquest sandbox Earth From Another Sun already boasts over 10,000 paying closed-alpha players after three and a half years of development, all of whom are traditional PC gamers who paid between $30 and $250 for early access to the game.
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EFAS promises players an action-packed first-person shooter experience in a multiplayer “living, breathing galaxy,” brimming with colossal 1,000-troop armies clashing on the battlefield. Players will travel to the stars, trade and mine
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