Million on Mars raises $3.5M for blockchain-based space sim
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Million on Mars has raised $3.5 million to bolster its blockchain-based space simulation about how the human race could one day colonize the Red Planet.
Erik Bethke, the CEO of Million on Mars, is unsurprisingly a Mars geek. He really hopes that Mars will one day have a population of a million people, and his game is all about simulating how such a thing could happen.
“The game is all about what it’s going to take to settle Mars,” Bethke said in an interview with GamesBeat. “The key concept assumes that SpaceX or Rocket Lab or another space company delivers reasonable rockets and the price of travel in the solar system falls, as we expect, to be quite reasonable. What would you bring to Mars? How would you go about settling?”
In the hardcore crafting game, players start with 40-acre plots of land and craft their way to economic independence on Mars. Now, after a momentous year of weekly content and cross-promotions with other Web3 titles, including a notable and groundbreaking cross-chain cross-promo with the popular title Sunflower Land, the company has raised a seed round to keep expanding its universe.
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Founded in 2020, the Austin, Texas-based company is also out to show how running a blockchain game can be a legit enterprise built with care by a team of veteran game creators. Unlike a lot of Web3 game companies that raise money well before they make a game, Million on Mars has been live with crafting and trading for more than
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