Space Nation Online gets alpha test for Web3 sci-fi MMO starting August 29
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Space Nation Online is an ambitious Web3 massively multiplayer online game coming from game and film industry veterans. And it’s getting an alpha test starting on August 29.
Space Nation CEO Jerome Wu said in an interview with GamesBeat that the week-long alpha test will provide a glimpse into the vast story of the MMO, allowing players to uncover the history of the new human civilization through non-player character dialogues, quests, and item descriptions.
Additionally, players will experience the character’s growth through ship assembly and item collection, which bring about changes in gameplay. During the alpha phase, the company will also conduct multiplayer testing, allowing players to interact with each other in the port hall and space.
Space Nation Online is part of a larger intellectual property unveiled a couple of weeks ago. It has the MMO, other games, a movie, and animated television series in the works, Wu said. All of it is tied together through a “tokenomics” economy and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
“Space Nation Online is our main title, the Web3 space MMORPG,” said Wu. “In general, it’s a transmedia franchise, or a universe we want to build. We also have multiple other Web2 and Web3 games in our plan. And we also have plans for animated shorts and the TV series and probably in the future more other transmedia projects.”
Wu spent a lot of time as a developer for World of Warcraft. Cofounders include Roland Emmerich (director of Independence Day), Tony Tang (who worked on Warframe), and Marco Weber (producer of The Thirteenth Floor). They’re working on a space opera storyline for Space Nation
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