After many months operating under the moniker Project Awakening, game developer CCP Games has finally revealed EVE Frontier, its open sourced, blockchain-enabled game within the EVE Online universe.
As described in the whitepaper, EVE Frontier is described as being a “crowd-built virtual world and player-driven sandbox,” which is based on “cryptographic techniques and blockchain technology”, notably an Ethereum-based L2 ecosystem.
Basically, this means CCP Games is setting up the formal rules that will underpin the universe – and which will be fixed and immutable; unchangeable even by CCP – while it will be the players and other developers who will build on top of these “digital physics” rules providing their own tools and content.
In this way, CCP hopes players will gain “recognition, ownership and freedom over their own creative efforts” in a universe that will be a self-sustaining, persistent and “outlive us all”.
As for blockchain elements, there will be the in-game LUX virtual currency, which is similar to the ISK currently in EVE Online. It will be limited to transactions within the server technology running EVE Frontier, while EVE Token will be the crypto token that can be traded in and out-of-game, as well as being used for governance purpose to control the game’s future. Of course, players will also be able to create their own tokens within the game.
In terms of governance, players will band together to form Tribes, which will consists of hundreds of players. Tribes can then group together in their hundreds and thousands to form Syndicates.
There are much more details included in the whitepaper, which is well worth a read.
It’s also worth noting that EVE Frontier will continue its series of closed playtests, with the next one occurring on Friday 27th September.
You can sign up for more details at the EVE Frontier website.
