According to Coingecko data, Ronin, the token of the Ethereum side chain Ronin Network, has experienced significant gains in the past week, with a weekly increase of 63.3% and a price of $0.82 at the time of writing.

According to nansen data,The number of active wallet addresses on Ronin has tripled in recent days, soaring to more than 7,000.Although there is no clear data to point to, the community generally believes that this growth comes from the game Pixels, which Ronin recently promoted.

In 2022, Pixels completed a US$2.4 million seed round of financing, led by Animoca Brands and PKO Investments, with participation from OpenSea and others. On October 31, 2023, Pixels migrated to Ronin. Ronin Network was launched by Sky Mavis, the producer of Axie Infinity, and is an EVM blockchain specially built for games.

It’s been more than a week since we moved to Ronin, and it coincides with the second anniversary of Pixels on November 10th. What’s special about the gameplay of Pixels? How is the ecosystem progressing after migrating to the Ronin chain? BlockBeats sorted this out based on relevant information.

Core Philosophy of Pixels

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

For a P2E game to run stably, the team needs mature thinking. The Pixels teams vision can be understood from three aspects: game fun, interoperability and decentralization.

in gameInteresting, Pixels are designed to make gaming accessible to all types of users. Community KOL@0xPixelPenguinIt is believed that Pixels’ rich gameplay and ecology can meet the needs of different groups of people. Professional players can choose to earn money, decorate their own Land NFT, and earn land taxes by letting other players plant on their own land; ordinary players can work for professional players to earn wages. In addition, players can participate in irregular team-led activities (such as Thanksgiving turkeys, Easter eggs, etc.) and receive rewards.

existinteroperability, Pixels took advantage of the unique advantages of blockchain games - 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, there are currently more than 50 NFT collections integrated. “To us, what these discussions of the Metaverse mean is: an interconnected grid of adventures, games, and spaces through which your digital identity can flow.”

existDecentralization conceptOn the Internet, Pixels has adopted a product-first approach and gradually achieved decentralization. Early decentralization was mainly reflected in the ownership of game items on the chain, but many game mechanisms are executed on the server side, which can speed up development and shorten response time, thereby bringing a better gaming experience to players. In the future, the actual implementation of the mechanism can be moved on-chain and into contracts.

Early decision-making will also be centralized among the main Pixels teams to focus on the long-term health of the ecosystem at an early stage. The team is envisioning and building decision-making systems that allow for decentralized financial management, economic planning, and more. As games and ecosystems mature, more and more systems can also begin to be decentralized.

How to play

Create an account: EnterGame home page, click PLAY FOR FREE. Currently, a game account needs to be created through the Ronin wallet.

Once you create an account, you can start your newbie tasks. Some players shared how to complete the novice missionSpecific steps。

Interoperability: NFT integration

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

Some NFTs that Pixels has integrated

Tokenomics

There are three types of assets in Pixels Universe, namely land, resources and tokens, all of which are stored on-chain. Terrains are floating land features in the Pixels universe. Players can choose to make their home on three types of land, each with its own preconceived perks and limitations.

land

Free and rented plots are primarily single-player instances, and the players farm cannot be seen by visitors. Players do not need to own a piece of land to access the games features.

Free plots:Also known as Specks, this is the most basic type, allowing players to engage in basic farming activities. Free plots dont offer much in terms of functionality and provide much lower yields than other types.

Land to rent:Rented plots offer players more freedom, better yields, and space for decoration, but their drawback is that players must rent them out, so using this plot type forfeits most of the bonuses.

Own land:Owned plots provide players with additional space, functionality and the highest income/yield of all plot types. There are two variants of self-owned plots, namely small self-owned NFT and large self-owned NFT, each with its corresponding level of income.

Landowners have unique interests associated with their land ownership relationship, all trades are available on their own land, and some trades are unique to their own land. Landowners increase the value of NFTs through work, industrialization, automation, and decoration of NFTs. Active industries are limited by the amount 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 tapestry in pixels. They can manage their own land resources, benefit from sharecropping on land, or become sharecroppers on land owned by others.

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

resource

Resource generation is the main faucet in the game. In order to prevent land and resource inflation, as Pixels are updated, it becomes increasingly difficult to collect more rare and hard-to-obtain resources - players will need to spend time and effort to continue collecting higher and higher quality resources.

The Pixels team adjusts the amount of resources generated in a given period of time through several variables: replenishment time, the input required to increase the resource, how many resources each operation generates, and how much effort the process of harvesting this resource requires.

sharecropper

The sharecropper system is how F2P players play the game. Players can harvest, grow, and sell whatever they want. The leased land will be fully leased and will not be owned by the player. Land will remain allocated to the players account as long as the player is able to pay the lease fee. As players accumulate in-game resources, they will be able to rent larger and larger tracts of land.

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

Since there may be many more non-landowners than landowners, multiple sharecroppers can have the same relationship with a single landowners industry. But building multiple relationships does not yield cumulative benefits. When it comes to production leveling, it is important to actively manage and maintain production continuity. Landowners may also be sharecroppers. Meanwhile, landowners can personally manage their own industry as a player, manage the tenant farmers who use their land, and perform skilled labor as tenant farmers on other landowners lands.

Token

Pixels uses a dual-token system, namely BERRY and PIXEL. Both tokens are intended to be uncapped in total supply, and the utilities unlocked for each currency are completely different, as are the ways in which they can be obtained.

$BERRY

$BERRY is the primary currency in Pixels and is vital to the core gameplay loop, making it easy to access and easily earn within the game.

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

The main destruction mechanism is through the purchase of in-game items that propel players further in the game loop, unlocking in-game items for new industries, activities, areas, quests, and content. Players who do not own land will also need $BERRY to maintain their land. .

Pixels have several levers to adjust the input supply of $BERRY, including controlling the generation of resources (adjusting the resource replenishment time, the number of inputs required to generate the resource, the output of a given resource, the effort to harvest the pixel resource, and the cost to complete certain actions. energy required) and adjust prices in the in-game store.

In the future, Pixels may also limit or even remove the in-game store, stopping the minting of new $BERRY entirely.

$PIXEL

$PIXEL is the premium in-game currency used to purchase items, upgrades, and cosmetic enhancements that are outside of Pixels core gameplay loop and are more difficult to obtain. Players will obtain $PIXEL for higher needs, such as saving game time, improving social status, etc.

Unlike $BERRY, the supply of $PIXEL will be tightly controlled and predictable. 100,000 new $PIXEL will be minted every day. New $PIXEL will then be distributed to active players who engage in expected patterns of behavior that benefit the Pixels ecosystem.

A large part of $PIXELs distribution is through a daily reward system for completing various tasks, quests, or finding specific items. The team also rewards other behaviors, such as creating unique user-generated content, incentivizing more user participation, engaging 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. Proceeds will be sent to a vault managed by Pixels, which will likely burn a large portion of the proceeds on a daily basis.

Team and development

The Pixels team has extensive experience in gaming products. Founder Luke Barwikowski started coding at age 12 and was building and selling apps by age 18. Engineers BenJamin Exworthy and Garr Godfrey are co-founders of GameHouse, a famous American game developer.

February 2022, PixelsFinishIt raised US$2.4 million in seed round financing led by Animoca Brands and PKO Investments, with participation from OpenSea and others. The funds will be used to fully build and expand the games initial features in preparation for the planned launch of Token at the end of the second quarter of 2022; in October, Pixel airdropped $ in bonus tokens to the top 20,000 players with community points BERRY.

Ecologically active after migrating to Ronin

September 12, PixelsAnnounceWill be migrating from Polygon to Ronin network. October 31, PixelsAnnounceIt has been launched on Ronin Network, and the casting of Pixel Pets (NFT with instant game utility) has been opened on Ronin Chain. In the announcement, Pixel stated that community has always been our driving force. And Ronin has more Web3 users than any other blockchain network.

On the day Ronin was launched, the transaction volume within Pixels increased significantly. One week after going online, UAW increased by more than 500%. According to the team, Pixel will be launched in Q4$PIXELSGovernance token.

BlockBeats found that many of the KOLs promoting Pixels are deep players of Axie Infinity. Additionally, Ronin and Jihoz, the founder of Axie Infinity, appear among Pixel NPCs. Jihoz himself often promotes Pixels on his official account and saidSeriously, Pixels has the feel of early Axie.

What is certain is that this is a win-win migration. DappRadar Ambassador@0x xNathanSaid on A wonderful and loyal community.

Recently, the chain gaming market has shown signs of recovery following the broader market, and Pixels has begun to show results. BlockBeats once reported that on November 7, according to Blur market information, NFT floor prices in the chain gaming sector generally rose. Among them, the floor price of Pixels land NFT is 0.39 ETH, with a weekly increase of 59.18%.

On November 10, the Pixels team announced in dicord that the number of daily active users of Pixels has exceeded 55,000, saying, “We know there will be more growth in the next few months, and we need to prepare for 100k+ DAU. .”

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