‘Moonray’ Begins Play-to-Airdrop Push Alongside Epic Games Store Launch

Sci-fi enviornment fight sport Moonray has launched its play-to-airdrop marketing campaign, with profitable individuals eligible to obtain the undertaking’s native token as soon as it launches, barring regional restrictions. This comes amid the sport’s Epic Video games Retailer debut.

On daily basis, gamers are given the problem to position within the high half of 5 video games, and finishing it will make it easier to progress additional via the airdrop marketing campaign—in an identical fashion to the favored battle cross system from Fortnite and different video games. On high of this, players will earn a “appreciable bonus” primarily based on the place they place among the many high 1,000 gamers total.

To boost the possibilities of profitable, customers can take part in weekly social challenges that can earn the participant extra credit score in direction of the airdrop. By doing this, you’ll even be entered plenty of occasions right into a raffle to win a high-end gaming PC.

House owners of Moonray’s Basis NFT—launched on Ethereum in 2022—will even obtain airdrop bonuses with a “future bonus that’s but to be introduced.” Anybody can register now to take part totally free.

As soon as the marketing campaign is over, profitable individuals will obtain MNRY tokens which shall be used to “improve” the sport. There’s at present no date set for when the marketing campaign will finish. In a tweet thread, Moonray’s builders famous that U.S. residents will not be eligible for the token drop—which is true of many airdrops, sometimes as a result of regulatory issues.

The play-to-airdrop push comes as the sport launches onto the Epic Video games Retailer, placing the sport in entrance of a person base of 75 million month-to-month energetic gamers.

It seems to be an rising pattern that crypto video games launching on the shop will launch a play-to-airdrop marketing campaign alongside it, after BloodLoop and Nyan Heroes not too long ago did the identical. The latter sport, a cat-filled riff on hero shooters like Overwatch, reportedly reached the highest 30 video games on the shop with over 200,000 downloads.

Moonray has been round for a while. Again in 2021, Decrypt wrote in regards to the sport, which was being constructed on Bitcoin layer-2 community Stacks. Nonetheless, in a latest Twitter publish the group confirmed that MNRY shall be an ERC-20 token—an Ethereum token customary.

Decrypt’s GG reached out to Moonray co-founder Rodrigo Etcheto to make clear the sport’s blockchain plans and whether or not it’s nonetheless concerned with Stacks, however didn’t instantly obtain a response.

Again in late 2021, the sport had rather more give attention to the idea of the metaverse and leaned into role-playing components whereas remaining an motion combating sport. This may need been an indication of the occasions, nonetheless, as metaverse buzz was sizzling on the time following’s Fb’s rebranding and metaverse push.

Now, the sport manufacturers itself as a multiplayer aggressive fight enviornment sport set in a “post-human” world. However at its coronary heart, it appears to be like like the identical sport. Gamers hack, slash, and counter their manner via the fast-paced battle floor with enormous swords, futuristic weapons, and varied powers.

The Moonray franchise has additionally been expanded not too long ago with a pair of graphic novels from author Brandon Graham and artist Xurxo G. Penalta, printed by Residing the Line.

Edited by Andrew Hayward