Star Atlas Unlocks Tools to Help Game Devs Build on Solana

Star Atlas creator ATMTA is unlocking entry to its developer instruments and documentation on the Solana blockchain, providing fellow recreation creators entry to its ecosystem and financial system beginning with the brand new SAGE Labs browser-based recreation.

For builders eager to take a peek underneath the hood of Star Atlas, the corporate has launched a constructing hub the place hyperlinks and documentation will be discovered, providing free entry to Star Atlas’ imagery, audiovisual property, Unreal Engine tooling, APIs, and mainnet program IDs and addresses.

Different options embody a brand new participant profile for custom-made gaming, a software to make use of the ATLAS token for Solana transactions as an alternative of SOL, a system for managing token possession and permissions, an enlistment software for factions that different builders can use, and capabilities to manage the sending of in-game tokens like ships.

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Star Atlas is an area exploration-themed role-playing recreation (RPG) constructed on the Solana community. ATMTA launched a “showroom” demo on the Epic Video games Retailer in September 2022. SAGE Labs (Star Atlas Golden Period) is a browser-based recreation that ties into the bigger Star Atlas universe.

ATMTA mentioned that it’s making its Star Atlas knowledge publicly out there within the identify of transparency and fostering belief amongst gamers and stakeholders, with the goal of additionally making a broader ecosystem of apps across the recreation.

“It is what transforms Star Atlas from simply being a set of gaming merchandise to a improvement platform,” Star Atlas CEO Michael Wagner advised Decrypt’s GG in an unique interview. “You may even commercialize utilizing these [Star Atlas] property.”

As Wagner defined, ATMTA requires no minimize for the primary $1 million value of gross income for any firm that makes use of the instruments. If an organization utilizing Star Atlas’ property and branding begins producing greater than $1 million in income, charges starting from 3% to 10% kick in relying on which business or sector the corporate operates inside.

In a launch, ATMTA wrote that the instruments will be harnessed to create new performance round SAGE Labs, however it might additionally allow creators to spin off into new genres and experiences constructed across the similar property and options.

“That is additionally a part of cultivating a flourishing ecosystem of people that need to construct round Star Atlas,” Wagner added. “It successfully says that here is a repository of property, together with branding and Star Atlas imagery, that you’re free to make use of.”

Whereas Wagner is optimistic in regards to the rollout of the Star Atlas construct platform and SAGE Labs, he did acknowledge that there could possibly be hurdles to launching such public assets.

“The one potential problem is we simply get a bunch of individuals asking questions as a result of they need to construct one thing utilizing it. Perhaps they do not utterly perceive it, however that is about it,” he mentioned. “I feel it is a win. However, it is individuals coming in requiring assets from us to assist get them began.”

Although Star Atlas has been hotly anticipated by the Solana neighborhood, the highway to success has not been with out its bumps. In July, ATMTA diminished its workers by 73%, citing market circumstances and spending wants. Wagner mentioned that as painful because it was to let these individuals go, it was obligatory and that the Star Atlas groups’ effectivity and momentum have improved considerably. He’s optimistic about the place the corporate is heading.

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“Revenues are ticking up, and we’re seeing much more peer-to-peer transaction quantity, which helps us with our royalty charges,” Wagner mentioned. “Sentiment in our neighborhood could not be increased.”

Whereas SAGE Labs’ construct hub is meant for the Solana ecosystem, Wagner mentioned that anybody on any blockchain can profit from the knowledge and instruments. Utilizing SAGE Labs, he added, anybody can construct their very own front-end consumer interface (UI) and even customise gameplay mechanics and roll out a separate product.

“In the event that they construct one thing that is higher, it nonetheless makes use of the entire Star Atlas property; that is how the applications are outlined,” Wagner mentioned. “And if that occurs to get actually common, properly, then we are able to simply focus extra of our consideration on Unreal Engine. We nonetheless should construct extra applications.”