Apeiron Update: Dev Report December 2023
As December draws to a close, it’s time for Christmas, New Years celebrations, and our last development report of 2023!
As December draws to a close, it’s time for Christmas, New Years celebrations, and our last development report of 2023!
What a month it’s been: this month, Apeiron officially announced our partnership with Sky Mavis and migration to the Ronin Blockchain, marking the beginning of a new chapter (and a brand new marketplace!). I’m sure that there are some new godlings reading this right now. Let us just say: Welcome!
Every month, at the end of the month, we publish a development report to update our community on our working progress. You can find it — as well as many other game updates, news, interviews, stories, and lore pieces — right here, on our medium.
Before we dive in, a quick reminder that our PvP Demo Party Night is TONIGHT! Jump into our Discord and let’s get wiiilllddddd.
Alright, so now let’s recap what’s happened the last month and what we’re prepping for in the New Year! It’s been hella busy, but we’re thrilled to see the positive reception and attention Apeiron has been getting😇
Table of Contents:
TGE and $ANIMA Battledrops
Preparing for the TGE
Anima Battledrop Info
The Ronin Migration
Marketplace and Asset Migration
Holiday Celebration Events
Ongoing Expeditions
Dev Updates
Backend: Supporting the Migration
Streamlining the Dungeon
Whitepaper Update
A more Cinematic Design Approach
Doodmas: Apeiron Lore
$APRS TGE and $ANIMA Battledrops
We begin with a couple of important announcements of things coming after the New Years…
Community Round & TGE: Apeiros [$APRS] is coming!
Our TGE is on the way! With this marquee event, we’ll be launching Apeiros ($APRS), our core ecosystem ERC20 token tradeable on CEX and the Katana DEX. $APRS will be very rare, with a capped supply, but also an essential part of creating NFTs and expanding the Apeiron ecosystem. If you want to have a defining role in the future of Apeiron, get some $APRS through our community round in January!
So who can participate in the community round? First, our Primeval Planet holders — which is to say, holders of the first Planets ever to be made — will have allocation for purchasing $APRS. The exact amount to be allocated per holder will depend on the total number of Primeval Planets held as well as the exordium type and age of those Planets. Second, our Star holders will be provided allocation as well, but their allocation will be less compared to the Primeval Planets.
Asset holders will be able to participate in the Community Round in *ONE* of the two ways:
KYC (Know Your Customer, a form of identity checking and verification) with vesting
No KYC with 100% unlock
Please note that (2) will have a significantly less allocation compared to (1).
We are finalizing the details and will have additional blogs to confirm all Community Round and TGE details in the coming weeks. We hope you’re excited for the launch of $APRS!
$ANIMA: Get ready for Battledrops!
$ANIMA is our free to play token used for enhancing your NFTs that will be launching with the start of S3 in Q1 2024, but we want you guys to be able to get a headstart — so beginning TONIGHT, you can start earning!
Battledrops work a little differently from your average airdrop: basically, they need to be unlocked by playing the game, and you’ll get them unlocked over time as you play. We’re going with battledrops because we want $ANIMA in the hands of our most passionate and active players, and that’s who battledrops reward! We’ll also have normal airdrops going on.
Here’s the way it works: you’ll be battledropped and/or airdropped a certain amount of $ANIMA at the start of S3 based on a number of different factors (calculated on a per user basis):
Total number of held assets and the age of those assets
On-chain transactions (e.g. trading, staking, breeding, minting, etc.)
Downloading and playing the game in S2.R
PvP testing
Being active in the community and on social media
The more of these things you do, the more $ANIMA you’ll get for the start of S3 — simple as that.
The Ronin Migration
Marketplace and Asset Migration
This month we began our migration over to the Ronin chain! As a part of this migration, we also launched our new Marketplace with a new daily check-in system. Everything is now in full swing: to date, we’ve seen around 10k accounts created on the new marketplace. In addition, approximately 4k planets, 300 stars and 600 Apostles have successfully migrated. If you haven’t migrated your assets yet, be sure to do so! You can read more about the migration here.
We are eternally grateful for those who took this big leap and continued to support us. It is precisely your continued backing that motivates us to continue doing what we love and channel all of our efforts into creating a memorable gameplay experience for our players. You doods rock!
And our community is growing! Since our migration announcement on December 18th, over 6000 new doods have downloaded our game from the official Apeiron site and the Epic store. We are thrilled to welcome everyone and can’t wait to see what the future holds for us.
Holiday Celebration Events
And of course, coming alongside the migration have been a host of celebration events! We’ve had quests on Moku (closed now!), we’ve got free homecoming gifts for migraters, we’ve got new Apostles to mint and free Booty Hours, and we’ve got alpha testing for PvP! So much going on — and still going on! For more details, check out this article.
Ongoing Expeditions: Stake your Planets
We’ve also got some Expeditions going on! These are our premier staking events for our Planet holders. The Mirrored Soul Nebula Expedition will be beginning its New Year Adventure on Friday, Dec 29th, with users being able to stake Apeiron assets and have a chance to earn ANIMUS, one of our in-game tokens.
But as it’s a celebration, EVERYONE who stakes will get (1) a redemption code for a Doodelic Wings free mint item and (2) a redemption code for 6 Booty Hours. If you haven’t already, head over to the Marketplace and stake your Planets and Apostles! The sooner you stake, the more chances you have to win rewards.
And later on — in mid Jan — we’ll be hosting our Foonie Mavis Expedition, a special Expedition to celebrate the Apeiron x Axie collaboration, in which users will be able to stake to win actual Star NFTs — the land in Apeiron — and a very rare reward indeed! For more information on the Mirrored Soul Nebula Expedition, and the Foonie Mavis Nebula Expedition, you can refer to this article.
Dev Updates
Backend Focus: Supporting the Ronin Migration
For the last month (and change), our programmers have been busy as bees laying all the foundations for the new marketplace, as well as getting ready various elements for our PvP mode. Now that the migration has started and the new Marketplace has successfully gone live, the team will be moving all hands on deck for getting ready S3 content.
Streamlining and Improving the Dungeon
Speaking of S3 content, the design team has returned to revamping our dungeon mechanics, level design, and adjusting the battle, event and drop systems. With so many updates underway, players can anticipate a ton of new features for the next release. We’re particularly excited for you guys to get your hands on the new hot pot system. It’s both cute, food-related, and provides an easy way to power up your team!
Whitepaper Update
Since the inception of Apeiron, our whitepaper has existed as a comprehensive guide to everything about our game. As our vision has evolved over time, and given that the migration is happening with the new Marketplace this month, now seemed like the perfect time to roll out an update — so we did! The newest version of the whitepaper reflects the most up to date info on the game, and we’ve also improved its readability for newcomers, making it more beginner-friendly and gameplay focused.
If you want to know all the nitty gritty details about Apeiron, you can find all of them in the whitepaper — here.
A More Cinematic Design Approach
The story team has been working on the main storyline for the S3 beta release with the artists for several months, and now it’s nearly done, they’re topping it with some detailed character animations. Throughout the story, you’ll see different godly characters acting elegant and majestic, thanks to our 3D artists. They’re paying extra attention to the movements of each character, down to their bones even. With every bow and every smile, their etiquette surely reflects the glory of the godiverse. And uh, hey, there seems to be something moving in the box! What’s that? Oh, it’s confidential for now.
Doodmas: Holiday in the Godiverse
Every month we tell one to two story or lore pieces about the godiverse on our medium, and for this month, we’ve made it to the Doodmas celebration. If you’re curious about dood lives and the godiverse, remember to read our stories! Perhaps you might meet some characters before they appear in the game…?
And there you have it! A few months back I promised you updates and now I’ve delivered. It’s time for me to return to work. We’re incredibly excited about the next release and have a feeling that you guys will have as much fun playing as I did. In the meantime, hold on tight! Soon, we’ll be taking off to the godiverse and arrive at 1 Axis Mundi Street! Remember to follow us on our Twitter and Discord for our latest announcements! Happy Holidays and wishing y’all all the best in the coming year!
As always, thank you for reading godlings tata~
About Apeiron
Apeiron is the world’s first NFT-based play-and-earn god game. Apeiron will feature a unique card-based action-adventure combat system combined with god game simulation gameplay inspired by classic god games like Populous and Black & White. Players will be able to build up planets from above before descending to the ground as a powerful Avatar to solve the mysteries of the universe. Players will grow their planet to the point of developmental stagnation, then reset the planetary cycle via an Armageddon event to allow for even more advancement and thrilling late-game alliance level GvE and GvG activities. Apeiron will use a tri-token architecture, which means that there will be three separate tokens to navigate their ecosystem: a governance token, a play-to-earn token, and a premium alliance token.
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