A new playtest is coming to Moonfrost! Starting at the end of May, players on the Welcome List will be able to login to the Moonfrost world, tend to their farm, create their own customized house, and collect SHARDS.

Moonfrost, a Stardew Valley-type farming and social game, is opening up a special ‘Farming Fest’ playtest on May 29th. You will need to be on the Welcome List to gain access to this playtest, but securing one of those coveted spots isn’t impossible!

The first step to getting onto the Welcome List is to sign up on the Moonfrost website. After that, you can look for invites if you were an alpha playtester, create content on social media about Moonfrost, or check around with your other favorite web3 gaming projects for collaborative giveaways. In addition, once the playtest begins, anyone who is already on the Welcome List can invite one friend per day.

Farming Fest

This playtest is officially known as the Moonfrost Farming Fest. During this event, which runs from May 29th through June 7th, players will be able farm, working their way up from basic tools to more interesting options (the imagery given to us was “Thor’s Hammer, but for farming”!)

And, of course, after a hard days’ work on the farm, players will need a place to kick back and relax. Custom homes will also be present in the Farming Fest, letting players design their dream home piece by piece!

As for rewards, participants can collect SHARDS by completing tasks in-game and by creating content and sharing it on social media. SHARDS are in-game resource, though their purpose is still unrevealed.

This playtest will be single player only. But, to keep you from feeling too lonely while you work your farm, there will be two NPCs, Ash and Walter, who you can interact with.

What is Moonfrost?

Moonfrost is a free to play, character-based, farming game, similar to Stardew Valley. Players farm and gather resources, craft items, decorate their homes, and attract a variety of NPCs to live in their town.

And though the main game will function as a single-player game, Moonfrost will include player interactions, and it will also require an active internet connection when playing. Things with timers such as crops, will still progress when you are offline. And animal lovers will be happy to know that Moonfrost will include no animal killing!

The Moonfrost team releases regular dev updates and reports which you can read on their Discord server. Moonfrost will be released on PC and Mac first, followed by versions for mobile devices

To learn more about Moonfrost, visit their website, follow them on Twitter, and join their Discord.

Life Beyond is back with an early access preview for those with Founder’s Watches NFTs in their wallets. And though the game is limted and somewhat basic at the moment, the gameplay is generally smooth and we also get our first view of the open world of Dolos!

This early access preview brings us to a new point in the space-time continuum of Life Beyond. After initially exploring the world during alpha back in July of 2022, Life Beyond has held a number of alpha playtests. But none before with an open world concept!

After losing our planetary base during a major conflict, we are back, after having apparently crash-landed on the planet (I couldn’t find a lore explanation of how this happened). Now players are waking up from cryo-sleep, learning to navigate the hostile environment, and tasked with quests to help our people get setup on this alien planet.

Only those with Founder’s Watches (current floor about about $530 on Open Sea) can access the game at the moment. Though I would expect this to open to a larger group of players sometime soon.

More About the Early Access Preview

This preview is somewhat limited at the moment. A series of tutorial quests walk you through the basics of harvesting and crafting. Players are also tasked with exploring the crater we have landed in. Along the way, players can level up their weapons, battle creatures, harvest, craft, and complete quests, all in an open world MMO environment with a day and night cycle. Not bad for a starting point! And, it’s important to remember that we are still in just an early alpha phase of the game.

But this gives us a first taste of the MMO world. Previous Life Beyond play sessions involved instanced adventures, though it did support multiplayer also.

In a recent AMA, the Life Beyond team revealed that part of the game development will be guided by community quests. For example, players will be able to upgrade their basic weapons from the start. But in order to access tier 2 weapons, the playerbase will need to complete a large community quest to get the fabrication machine up and running (or something like that). This not only helps build community and gives the playerbase a shared purpose, but it also provides the dev team with space to steadily drop out new features and updates to the game.

There are no announced rewards for participating in this playtest. And expect all progress to be wiped in the near future as well. But it is an opportunity to get a feel for what the open world gameplay will look like. And a chance to find and report bugs and issues to the team!

Download the game directly from the Life Beyond website.

What is Life Beyond?

Life Beyond is a free-to-play, play-and-earn, FPS-style MMORPG with a third-person view. In Life Beyond, players are citizens of the Dolos Planet, an alien world around a distant star. Sent to build a new society on the planet, the colonists discovered the planet infested with hostile wildlife. Now the players must work to help secure a spot for humans in this alien landscape!

The gameplay follows the lore, with reasoning for out of game events (such as server closures) written in as part of the storyline.

Players venture into the world to fight creatures and gather resources. Not only for themselves, but also to help complete community missions, larger quests that will open up new features and gameplay.

Life Beyond is currently in alpha testing, with game servers opened for special events on an irregular basis. They are also working on creating a token called BILF, a token for a ‘social consensus layer’ that connects to the Bitcoin network.

To learn more about Life Beyond, visit their website, follow them on Twitter, and join their Discord.

The famous metaverse on blockchain, The Sandbox, has announced the new Alpha Season 3, the play-to-earn game that will include NFT Avatars. Registration for the new season is already open. 

The Sandbox Alpha Season 3: registration is open

For lovers of play-to-earn gaming, The Sandbox’s new event and its new Alpha Season 3 could be really important. Here’s the video announcement:

COMING THIS SUMMER pic.twitter.com/WlFga1RkqU

— The Sandbox (@TheSandboxGame) July 1, 2022

Registration for the new season is already open, and it looks very much like NFT Avatars will be included within the game. 

Not only that, unlike Season 2, players will not need an Alpha Pass to play Season 3, as it is open to everyone. The Alpha Pass is only needed to claim rewards at the end of the season.

Moreover, despite the crypto winter we are currently experiencing, it seems that the blockchain gaming industry is not affected at all. 

According to data from DappRadar, in the past 30 days, the number of active unique wallets that have connected to The Sandbox has increased by more than 90% to about 9,500. At the same time, transactions have increased by more than 87% to over 14,500. This shows that players are connecting and interacting with The Sandbox.

The Sandbox Alpha Season 3 and the NFT Avatars

Speaking of the new Alpha Season 3 launch, The Sandbox co-founder and COO Sebastien Borget wrote on Twitter some hints about what the third season might entail and what new features might be added. 

Not only that, in his roundup of tweets, Borget also raises a somewhat original point about NFT Avatars in the metaverse, criticizing the idea of Meta Platform. 

Sorry Meta, but this is exactly how Avatars should NOT be… identical to ourselves

Avatars are our new digital identity in the Metaverse

Let’s use our imagination and take this chance to be who we really want to be and build a more inclusive and diverse digital nation

1/n pic.twitter.com/kgSXay4OkE

— Sebastien (@borgetsebastien) June 18, 2022

“Sorry Meta, but this is exactly how Avatars should NOT be… identical to ourselves. Avatars are our new digital identity in the Metaverse. Let’s use our imagination and take this chance to be who we really want to be and build a more inclusive and diverse digital nation”.

Your Avatar = your new digital identity should be unique and interoperable as an #NFT#Web3 technology allows you to own this Avatar – not the platform it was created on – and use it across decentralized virtual worlds like @TheSandboxGame

This is the true Metaverse #Open

3/n pic.twitter.com/sStW03ZZZz

— Sebastien (@borgetsebastien) June 18, 2022

“Projects such as @People0fCrypto are trailblazing by launching with @NYXCosmetics by @LOrealGroupe. Avatars that represent non gendered, black and brown women, people of color, and LGBTQIA+ characters.

Your Avatar = your new digital identity should be unique and interoperable as an NFT. Web3 technology allows you to own this Avatar – not the platform it was created on – and use it across decentralized virtual worlds like @TheSandboxGame This is the true Metaverse Open”.

Borget thus promotes the idea of avatars in the metaverse as a new, creative and original digital identity of the user, rather than their digitized copy as is in the view of Mark Zuckerberg. 

Third place in the world for hashtags

The Sandbox appeared on the podium, in third place, in terms of hashtags, according to research conducted by analytics firm Santiment, the hashtags #belongingweek and #avatar are among the most used on Twitter, Reddit, and Telegram.

The result seems to have been high enough to be in the trend before Donald Trump possibly runs for US president in 2024. 

Specifically, Belonging Week was used as a hashtag in honor of the initiative for a contest related to the world of LGBTQIA+ and inclusion, created with the celebrated NFT World of Women collection. 

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