Apeiron Update: Dev Report November 2023

This month we have many things to report. Yes, I repeat: many things. November has been jam-packed, from countless story workshopping…

Nov 30, 2023

This month we have many things to report. Yes, I repeat: many things. November has been jam-packed, from countless story workshopping meetings to our company-wide PvP testing process — we’ve got endless excitement tucked up our sleeves. The developers, artists, and I, one of the Foonie writers, have lots of things to say, so buckle up!

Buuuuuut before that, Apeiron has recently been shortlisted for the Gam3 Awards! The voting is still open on GAM3.GG and will last until December 1st, so head on over to their site if you haven’t voted yet! The GAM3 awards ceremony will take place on December 14th and in between this period, you can complete the missions on their site to have a chance of winning Lunar and Solar Fragments that you can forge into a Battle Pass! Pretty neat.

Also: we said it last week, and we’ll keep on sayin’ it so you don’t forget — S2 Dood Halo and Doodelic Wings (free mint items) will EXPIRE on Dec 15th (12am GMT+8). Use ’em or lose ‘em!

Ok, now without further ado, let’s blast off to the report! 🚀⭐

Table of Contents:

Community

Season’s End
Primeval PvP testing

Dev Updates:

Company wide PvP testing
Genesis of Gods: A Behind-the-Scenes Insight
Dialogues, More Dialogues

Community

Season’s End

The Autumn Off-Season Leaderboard will be ending at midnight tonight (Nov 30th, 11:59pm GMT+8). Visit the official leaderboard to check your rank and see if you want to make that final push to glory. Rewards include FE, mBH, Golden Apostle Tickets, and whoever snags the top spot will also get 100 USDC! After the season ends, players who enjoyed playing the Boss Rush will still be able to access the mode and hunt for Apostles to mint if that’s what floats your boat.

Primeval PvP testing

If you’re a Primeval Planet holder, you can start testing! So far we have already received some great commentary from the community and we want to say thank you very much for these insights. We ask y’all to keep playing, keep testing, and keep telling us what you think, because this kind of feedback really is invaluable. More info, as always, on our Discord.

Dev Updates

Company-Wide PvP Testing

It’s been an exciting month for all of us at the company as we conduct the internal testing of our much-anticipated PvP mode. We have been hard at work iterating on build after build to make sure the balance of all the game’s skills are juuuuuuust right. Our goal is that every skill has a place in the right deck for each player, so that when you get your hands on the game, you’ll be able to unleash your full creativity to create your own super cool and unique deck.

For Planet holders, when the PvP releases you’ll actually be able to use your Planets in the PvP mode! However, note that Avatars from other classes will be converted into Wisdom Avatars for now. We’re still working on the Furies and the Fates, so for now, everyone’s got a sprinkle of Wisdom magic. So if you have an Archipelago Fury, for example, for S3 PvP you’ll be able to use it as an Archipelago Wisdom.

Genesis of Gods: A Behind-the-Scenes Insight

This month, our team of Foonie writers header onto the 2D and 3D artists’ floor in order to really get as thick as thieves for better collaboration. It’s been great! We are witnessing the genesis of many new characters and I had a chance to engage with my colleague who sits next to me, Hei. He is a seasoned 3D artist who has made significant contributions to the company over the last six years. I interviewed him about the progress in the 3D modeling department.

Enthusiastically, he confided:

“Since we completed the intricate task of constructing the anatomical framework of various gods within the span of two weeks, we immediately started modeling, squashing, and stretching these characters to perfection. And now, we are striving to animate movements that align with the distinctive nature of each character!”

For them to experiment with character movements, they turn to a detailed character sheet that the 2D concept artists and writing team (that’s us!) who’ve dedicated months of hard work to its creation. It’s actually such an awe-inspiring experience to create each character from scratch and to finally see them coming to life. Each of them has a fascinating backstory that encapsulates their personalities, and through their unique movements and stories, we are confident that our players will grow to understand them more. The totality of their developments adds an intangible yet rich depth to our work, dare I say it, MAGIC!

Dialogues, More Dialogues

Good news for chatty doods and doodettes! The writing team never stops, we will continue to bring you more characters to make your Apeiron experience richly meaningful. The key to making our RPG characters more lively and vivid is through player interaction, so we’ve prepared tons of DIALOGUE. The writing team is going to write and write and write and write HUNDREDS of dialogue, so you will always have something to talk about with our characters. On top of that, the artists are also creating dialogue icons and emoticons for them to enrich the story even more.

If you want to meet the gods before the beta release, come and read our Medium stories (HINT: one of the characters in the storyline is — WAIT — NO I WANT TO TELL THEM — NOOOOOOOOO-).

“We want our players to have a feeling of coming home when they play Apeiron. And how do you get that feeling? Well, by having friends to talk to. So that’s why we want to really make an effort to write a ton of dialogue, so that whenever our players come home, they will have friends to chat with, chill with, and build relationships with.” — Bookworm

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And there you have it folks, work work Werk. We are super excited about all these new updates but in the meantime just hold on to your buckets, SOON we’ll be taking off to the godiverse and arrive at 1 Axis Mundi Street! Make sure to follow us on our Twitter and Discord for our latest announcements!

As always, thanks 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.