Apeiron Update: Year 1 Retrospective
Hey everyone! In lieu of a Development Report this month, we’re putting together something a little more comprehensive: a full breakdown…
Hey everyone! In lieu of a Development Report this month, we’re putting together something a little more comprehensive: a full breakdown review of what’s happened this year in the world of Apeiron. There’ve been ups, there’ve been downs, and everything in between — so let’s take a moment to reflect on the past even as we look towards the future.
On November 21st, 2021 we published our first Medium article “Protogenesis”, which went over the initial sparks that fired the idea of Apeiron into life. Over the course of the next few weeks we would introduce the different aspects of Apeiron’s unique gameplay and colorful characters — especially our doods. We ran our first few events as well, giving away special Origins Apostles to lucky participants.
Then Chaos came to Hong Kong in the form of a massive wave of Covid, shutting down the city. Almost everyone was moved to work from home — but work continued apace nevertheless. In fact, during these months we greatly expanded our team and especially our online social media presence — our community team came into being, and our Discord began to become the wonderful place that it is today. Notably, in late February we launched the first iteration of our DADI program, creating the foundations for community involvement and leadership which still exist to this day.
During these first few months of the year, LoreKeeper — Frank Cheng, Foonie Magus CEO — was apoplectically busy, juggling the pandemic with securing pre-seed investment and seeing the birth of a new bouncing baby doodette! Despite the numerous challenges, we managed to find many excellent partners and backers who were happy to invest in Apeiron, sending our godiverse project into next gear.
Lifted by the support for Apeiron, we held our first NFT pre-sale in April of 2022, selling off our Primeval Planet NFTs and thereby giving birth to the godiverse. The sale was a great success, and not a moment too soon, for it was not a month later that the Luna crash happened, plunging the wider market into disarray.
Despite the tumultuous and sudden fall and consequent mayhem, our NFT prices held strong, and our community banded together to form a much-needed sanctuary. Impressed by our passionate fans, we nurtured the seeds of the Discord community so that it really began to bloom, holding numerous events and giveaways with a constant flow of good cheer and doody spirit to go around. Our Discord community remains not just a place to chat about Apeiron, but a home for people of all stripes, somewhere to hang out and be your doody self.
As the year rolled on into summer and early autumn, we continued to release new features for our NFT holders and put in place the pieces needed to support the game. First, we launched our Nebula Expeditions — a staking system that provides our Planet holders a way to earn useful Apeiron resources and prizes. We also set up and launched our Planet breeding system so that Planet holders can make and sell new NFT assets to play with or sell. And finally, we launched our Apeiron official Marketplace, a kind of nexus and hub for all Apeiron-related activities. So many launches!
We should also mention that in the summer and autumn we held 2 Mini Guild Wars, in which players from our partner guilds competed in knockout video game tourneys with a slew of fantastic Apeiron prizes. These tournaments gave our team invaluable tournament hosting experience, which we fully intend to capitalize on once Apeiron releases and we start to have our own competitive esports scene.
That takes us to October, when we held our second NFT presale, selling our Star NFTs — the “land” of Apeiron that gives players powerful passive bonuses for their Planets. We were thrilled to see that interest in our project remained high even after a bruising year. Importantly, following our Star sale and reviewing an internal financial review, we believe that our carefully managed treasury puts us in a strong position to leverage our assets moving forward.
A little more to that last point — the combination of our private round funding, KOL investment, and institutional NFT funding has brought in over 20M USD, which is secured in fiat treasury bills over and above the rising interest rates. This has left us unaffected by the sudden collapse of FTX and leaves us confident that our treasury is very safe.
Which brings us to now! This month we released the much anticipated gameplay demo to our holders and to the public for the first time. And from what we’ve been hearing, you guys had a lot of fun, which is great! We are now in the process of collecting and organizing your feedback and figuring out how we can make our game even better.
Apeiron’s first year has been a journey — one we’re excited to continue with you at our side~ Thanks for joining us, and thanks for sticking with us through thick and thin. We’ll see you next year, godlings — there’s so much more to come: we’re just getting started. Remember to keep up to date with us by following us on social media (Twitter, Telegram, Discord) for all your Apeiron news and updates.
And a very Happy New Year from everyone here at Foonie Magus!
About Apeiron
Apeiron is the world’s first NFT-based play-and-earn godgame. 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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