My Neighbor Alice’s Antonio Palma Hints At Some Massive Updates Coming Soon
My Neighbor Alice has emerged as one of the vital standard blockchain-based metaverse video games since launching in early 2023, but its creators have a lot greater plans in retailer. Finally, they purpose to make MNA a lot extra, making a digital universe that goes properly past the present sport.
That’s in keeping with the sport’s enterprise director, Antonio Palma, who was requested about what the staff has in retailer for customers within the coming 12 months throughout his look on the GeckoCon 2024 Web3 gaming occasion earlier this week.
Placed on the spot throughout a panel dialogue, Palma stated he’s joyful to introduce three alphas that the My Neighbor Alice staff has within the pipeline, with plans to introduce all of them someday in 2025.
With a view to assist the sport scale and develop, Palma stated his staff is at the moment engaged on a “new expertise” that may allow My Neighbor Alice to run on any machine, together with cell gadgets and tablets. He didn’t say a lot in regards to the tech itself, however we are able to think about it entails some form of cloud-based streaming, given the sport’s existing requirements for a PC operating with Home windows 7 OS or newer, an Intel i5-6400/Ryzen 5 1600 or superior chipset, a minimum of 8GB of RAM and 6GB of cupboard space, plus an Nvidia or AMD-based GPU.
“We’re in all probability one of many first Web3 video games to experiment with this expertise, and it’ll enable us to have our sport on any machine, versus solely operating on Home windows,” Palma stated.
The opposite facet of the plan is to streamline the onboarding course of, which at the moment entails approach an excessive amount of effort for informal players.
“Proper now I believe we’ve got seven clicks wanted to get into the sport and get began, from making a pockets, signing up and so forth.,” Palma stated. “However we’ll get to only one click on in. We’ve been testing it, it’s actually advanced expertise and hopefully it’s going to be prepared subsequent 12 months.”
These updates ought to assist make the sport rather more accessible to the form of non-crypto-native gamers that My Neighbor Alice says it’s attempting to draw. The sport itself is designed to introduce newcomers to the world of blockchain in a approach that’s enjoyable and pleasurable, gently easing them into ideas corresponding to NFTs, wallets and crypto.
The sport might be regarded as a form of metaverse-based virtual world, much like one thing like Minecraft or Animal Crossing, and permits gamers to create and discover digital worlds, collaborate with others and participate in varied actions, corresponding to shopping for land, constructing, gathering bugs, farming, fishing and beekeeping.
Within the sport, gamers’ land, avatars, buildings, vegetation, timber, flowers and animals are all represented by NFTs, and it offers varied easy-to-use instruments for them to personalize their digital worlds and manipulate the panorama. Gamers should purchase and promote these things by way of the in-game marketplace, spending ALICE tokens that are earned by finishing missions, collaborating with others and successful competitions. As soon as gamers have created their digital worlds, they’ll additionally monetize them in varied different methods.
Palma stated the best way the in-game financial system works is about to bear some massive adjustments. He revealed little or no, merely stating that “we’re testing a brand new financial system” and that we would have one thing to announce concerning this and the ALICE token subsequent 12 months.
Final however not least, My Neighbor Alice seems eager to leverage its standing as one of the vital standard Web3 video games by taking the chance to accomplice with varied different gamers within the trade, which may result in varied integrations within the coming months.
“We have now secured a giant partnership with one of many largest IPs within the area,” Palma stated. “We haven’t introduced something but as a result of we’re nonetheless constructing the expertise, and we by no means announce stuff till we’ve got constructed one thing first. However that is within the making and coming quickly.”
