The idea
Moonsama was launched on the 21st of September, and not long after that, the team thought it would be fun if players could have their Minecraft avatar represented by the Moonsama NFT.
It soon became apparent that solving this could open a new world of possibilities. Anyone who wants to give utility to NFTs in web2 games will need a way how to bring these NFTs into the game.
"We developed a way to bring any kind of NFT inside the digital space, whether it’s a game, a virtual chatroom , anything. We developed it into a protocol and called it the Multiverse portal"
Moonsama co-founder & CTO Adam Nagy @KyilkhorSama
The Multiverse Portal
The Moonsama team created a bi-directional bridge that allows interaction with NFTs between a blockchain and a gaming environment. It's a portal between web2 and web3, which boosted Moonsama innovation and made it possible to experiment with different game mechanics, such as play-to-craft. The bridge was initially tested on the Moonriver network and is compatible with the Moonbeam network, Ethereum, or any other EVM chain, such as Exosama Network ($SAMA).
Players can log in to the portal using a Kilt DID (recommended) or e-mail and use Metamask to sign transactions. By importing on-chain items into the portal, they are locked in and ready/available for in-game use. This way, players can import NFT assets from different chains and interact with them in various games. There's no limit here, be it skins, weapons, off-hands, or specific in-game resources.
Tokenize your efforts
Imagine spending hours playing a game and being able to export your achievements into an NFT token (ERC1155 token). We call these achievements resources.
This tokenized effort can be
traded in the open market
crafted into a new NFT asset.
Crafting is a revolutionary way to "mint" new NFTs. It represents participation and effort and provides initial value to the newly created asset. Moreover, these newly created NFT assets can be traded or imported back into the multiverse portal and used in different games, providing various utilities. All this is a foundation of a sustainable play-to-craft economy.
Resources
New resources will launch on the upcoming Carnage (Nov 21), and players will mint them on the new Exosama network (EXN). Moonsama has learned a lot from experimenting with resources during Carnage this past year, and one of the main conclusions was: to keep it simple.
The following resources are expected to be exported from the Carnage events starting this coming Sunday:
Wood
Stone
Iron
Gold
In the past weeks, pumpkins could be collected/farmed. They were soul-bound, meaning players weren't losing them upon death. Equipable NFT skins or backgrounds will be crafted using pumpkins.
Unlike pumpkins, the new EXN resources will NOT be soul-bound. This means if you die in-game, you will lose all your resources / your opponent will be able to get them. Yes, this may sound cruel, but that's why it's called Carnage :)
Migrate $POOP to $SAMA
$POOP is a result of months of playing Carnage and crafting resources and NFTs. After tokenizing alpha POOP from Moonriver on the Moonbeam network, it is now being migrated to the newly launched Exosama Network as its native token $SAMA, in a 1:1 ratio.
There are two options for how to migrate $POOP to $SAMA. In both cases, it is a one-way process (irreversible).
Carnage refinery
Players need to enrapture their $POOP in the Moonsama Multiverse Portal. $POOP is "refined" in the metaverse refineries, requiring just a short interaction with the in-game terminal. Using this method, players are eligible for a "bonus" - Mobidium, Blood crystals, and DNA - new EXN resources. Amounts gained using the refinery are yet to be announced.
The amount of $POOP allowed to migrate using the metaverse refinery is limited per Carnage and can be found using our Refinery Calculator.
Migration tool
It is also possible to migrate the $POOP without playing Carnage. Using the official migration tool, users can change $POOP for $SAMA with no limits on the amount.
Mobidium, Blood crystals, and DNA
The Carnage POOP refinery is the only known way to obtain Mobidium, Blood Crystals & DNA. Little do we know about the new resources at the moment. In authentic Moonsama style, the exact utility stays unclear until the very last moment.
What we do know:
Mobidium: Will be used to mechanize Pondsama fish NFT and change their statistics.
Blood Crystals: Will be to infect Pondsama fish NFT and change their statistics.
DNA: Unclear but hinted at being used for Petsama (NFT pets)
One last thing
The multiverse portal is being "locked" for each Carnage, and a couple of following days, until gameplay recordings are reviewed and resolved by the Moonsama police (to detect cheaters). During that time, players cannot move assets from the portal to their wallets. However, there is no need to remove assets from the portal after every carnage.
The portal serves as an extra layer of security since interaction with the portal is secured by a password/email or a digital identity. The newest feature added recently allows moving assets from the portal only to the wallets used to import them.
The status of the portal (lock/unlock) can be checked on our website.
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Hope to see you on Sunday, 4pm UTC!