The second Axie Infinity of the Pixels Ronin ecosystem

According to Coingecko data, Roin, the token of the Ethereum sidechain RoinNetwork, has risen significantly in the past week, with a weekly increase of 633%, at the time of writing**0$82.

According to Nansen, the number of active wallet addresses on Ronin has tripled in recent days, soaring to more than 7,000. While there's no clear data point, the community generally believes that this growth is due to Roin's recent focus on Pixels.

In 2022, Pixels closed a $2.4 million seed round led by Animoca Brands, PKO Investments, with participation from OpenSea and others. On October 31, 2023, Pixels migrated to Roin, the EVM blockchain built for games, launched by Sky M**is, the creator of Axie Infinity.

It's been over a week since the move to Ronin, which coincides with the second anniversary of Pixels on November 10th, so what's so special about how Pixels plays?How is the ecology progressing after migrating to the Ronin chain?Blockbeats has combed this through the data.

Pixels Games is a metaverse farming game launched in 2021 that recreates the atmosphere of a classic 16-bit role-playing adventure, allowing players to navigate through the pixel art world, interact with each other, farm the land, play mini-games, and earn token rewards. It also allows holders of select NFT profiles** (PFP) collectibles to use the avatars they own in the game.

For a P2E game to run robustly, it requires mature thinking on the part of the team. The pixels team can be understood in terms of fun, interoperability, and decentralization.

In terms of the fun of the game, pixels are designed to make the game fun for all types of users. The community kol@0xpixelpenguin believes that pixels have rich gameplay and ecology to meet the needs of different people. Professional players can choose kryptonite, decorate their own land NFTs, and earn land taxes by letting other players plant on their own land;Ordinary players can work part-time for professional players to earn wages. In addition, players can participate in occasional events led by the team (e.g. Thanksgiving Turkey, Easter eggs, etc.) to earn rewards.

On interoperability, Pixels leverages the unique benefits of blockchain gaming – Pixels implemented the first NFT integration, allowing users to connect their Metamask wallets and roam the Pixels world as their NFTs. According to the Pixels team, more than 50 NFT collections have been integrated so far. In our view, these discussions about the metaverse refer to: an interconnected grid of adventure, games, and spaces where your digital identity can flow. 」

InDecentralized conceptpixels take a product-first approach and gradually go decentralized. Early decentralization was mainly reflected in the ownership of in-game items on-chain, but many game mechanics were executed on the server side, which allowed for faster development and faster response times, resulting in a better gaming experience for players. In the future, the actual implementation of the mechanism can be migrated on-chain and into the contract.

Early decision-making also centralizes decisions by the main pixels team in order to focus on the long-term health of the ecosystem at an early stage. The team is envisioning and building a decision-making system that allows for decentralized financial management, economic planning, and more. As games and ecosystems mature, more and more systems can also begin to be decentralized.

To create an account, go to the game's homepage and click Play for Free. Currently, you need to create a game account through your Ronin wallet.

Once you've created your account, you're ready to start the Starter Mission. Some players shared the specific steps to complete the newbie mission.

Pixels' tools allow for native integration with other projects, including tokens, land NFTs, utility NFTs, and PFP NFTs, among others. Currently, Pixels has integrated more than 50 NFT brands to use as in-game avatars, including BAYC, Crypto Phunks, and more. Users can integrate more NFT collections here.

pixels are part of the NFTs that have been integrated

Free and rented plots are mostly single-player instances, and the player's farm cannot be seen by tourists. Players don't need to own a piece of land to access the game's features.

Free plots:Also known as specks, this is the most basic type that allows the player to engage in basic farming activities. Free plots don't offer much functionality and offer much lower yields than other types.

Rent a plot:Renting plots gives players more freedom, better yields, and space for decoration, but their disadvantage is that players have to rent them out, so using this plot type forfeits most of the winnings.

Own plots:Owned plots provide players with additional space, features, and the highest earning yield of any plot type. There are two variants of owned plots, small owned NFTs and large owned NFTs, each with its corresponding yield level.

Landowners have unique interests associated with land ownership relationships, and all industries are available for self-owned land, and some are unique to self-owned land. Landowners increase the value of NFTs by working, industrializing, automating, and decorating NFTs. Active industries are limited by the area of land available, but are generally unlimited. As long as the land area is sufficient, the land can be sealed at any time and a new industry can be launched.

Landowners have the richest interactive tapestries in pixels. They can manage their own land resources on their own, benefit from the land produced by sharecroppers, or they can become sharecroppers on other owned land.

Each NFT farm will have resources available and the highest level of resources not found on public land (which includes free tenant speck and rented tenant farmer land). Players obtain these resources by establishing sharecropping relationships with landowners.

Resource generation is the main faucet in the game. In order to prevent land and resource inflation, it is becoming more and more difficult to collect more rare and hard-to-obtain resources as pixels are updated - players need to put in the effort to consistently collect more and more high-quality resources.

The pixels team adjusts the amount of resources produced in a given period of time through several variables, namely the time, the input required to increase the resource, how many resources are generated per operation, and how much effort is required to harvest that resource.

The sharecropping system is how F2P players play the game. Players can harvest, plant, and ** as much as they want. The rented land will be rented out in its entirety and will not be owned by the player. As long as the player is able to pay the rental fee, the land will be allocated to the player's account all the way. As players accumulate in-game resources, they will be able to rent larger and larger plots of land.

Sharecroppers can build new skill upgrades by working in the industry of NFT farms.

Since there may be many more non-landowners than landowners, multiple sharecroppers can have the same relationship with the industry of a single landowner. But building multiple relationships doesn't yield cumulative benefits. When it comes to production leveling, it is important to actively manage and maintain the continuity of production. Landowners may also be sharecroppers. At the same time, landowners can personally manage their own trades as players, manage the sharecroppers who use their land, and work as sharecroppers on the land of other landowners.

Pixels uses a dual-token system, which is Berry and Pixel. Both tokens are intended to be uncapped on the total amount, and each currency unlocks completely different utilities and they are acquired in different ways.

$berry

Berry is the main circulating currency in pixels, and it's essential to the core game loop, making it accessible and easy to earn in-game.

In the early stages of the game, $berry is available through the in-game store. Players will be able to give their generated resources** to our in-game store in exchange for their resources in exchange for $BERRY.

The main destruction mechanism is to propel players further in the game cycle by purchasing in-game items, unlocking in-game items for new industries, events, regions, quests, and content, and players who don't own land will also need $berry to maintain their land.

Pixels has several levers to adjust $berry's inputs, including controlling resource generation (adjusting resource time, the number of inputs required to generate resources, the output of a given resource, the effort to harvest granular resources, and the amount of energy required to complete certain actions) and adjusting the in-game store's.

In the future, pixels may also limit or even remove in-game stores, stopping minting new $Berry altogether.

$pixel

Pixel is the premium currency in the game for purchasing items, upgrades, and enhancing appearances that aren't in the core gameplay loop of pixels and are harder to obtain. Players will earn $pixel for higher needs, such as saving time in the game, improving social status, etc.

Unlike $berry, $pixel's will be tightly controlled and available. 100,000 new $pixel will be minted every day. The new $pixel will then be distributed to active players who participate in the expected patterns of behavior that benefit the Pixels ecosystem.

A large part of the Pixel's distribution is through a daily reward system to complete various quests, quests, or find specific items. The team also rewards other behaviors, such as creating unique user-generated content, incentivizing more users to engage, engage with the community, and more.

Premium items will be available for purchase in the in-game store, and the store will not buy back items. The earnings will be sent to a vault managed by pixels, which may burn most of the earnings on a daily basis.

The pixels team has a wealth of experience with gaming products. Founder Luke Barwikowski started coding at the age of 12 and built and sold apps at the age of 18. Engineers Benjamin Exworthy and Garr Godfrey are the co-founders of Gamehouse, a well-known American game developer.

In February 2022, Pixels closed a $2.4 million seed round led by Animoca Brands, PKO Investments, and participation from OpenSea. The funds will be used to fully build and scale the game's initial functionality in preparation for the token, which is scheduled to launch by the end of Q2 2022In October, Pixel airdropped the reward token $ Berry for the top 20,000 players in the community points rankings.

On September 12, Pixels announced that it would be migrating from Polygon to the Ronin network. On October 31, Pixels announced that it had gone live on the Ronin Network, along with opening up Pixels PETS (NFTs with instant gaming utility) minting on the Ronin Chain. In the announcement, Pixel said that the community has always been our driving force. And Ronin has more Web3 users than any other blockchain network. 」

On the day of the launch of Ronin, there was a significant increase in the number of transactions within pixels. A week after its launch, UAW was up more than 500%. According to the team, Pixel will list the $pixels governance token on Q4.

Blockbeats found that many of the KOLs promoting Pixels were deep players of Axie Infinity. In addition, Pixel's NPC** features Jihoz, the founder of Ronin and Axie Infinity. Jihoz himself regularly promotes pixels on his official accountAnd said Seriously, pixels have the feel of the early days of Axie. 」

What is certain is that this is a win-win migration. Dappradar ambassador@0xxnathan said on X that we can see that Pixel and Ronin form a perfect synergy with the great support of the Ronin community. This shows that Ronin is poised to become one of the best blockchain networks in all of gaming, thanks to their wonderful and loyal community. 」

Recently, the chain game market has shown signs of recovery, and pixels have begun to show results. Blockbeats has reported that on November 7, according to Blur** information, the floor price of NFTs in the blockchain game section has generally increased. Among them, the floor price of the pixels plot NFT is 039 ETH, a weekly gain of 5918%。

On November 10th, the Pixels team announced in Dicord that the daily active users of Pixels have exceeded 550,000 and said we know there will be more growth in the coming months and we need to be ready for 100k+ dau. 」

It remains to be seen how much Ronin can help Pixels, and whether Pixels will become the second Axie Infinity on Ronin.