What’re the latest updates on Axie Infinity?
In this episode, Zyori discusses Axie’s 5000+ word development this January.
Read our notes below to learn more.
Key points
Axie continues to build relentlessly alongside their stalwart community and looks forward to a year of steady progress in 2023.
They launched the Axie Infinity homeland alpha, shipped a flurry of upgrades to Origins with Season 2 and introduced accessories, a key component of Axie Core.
Ronin Network activity is heating up with the launches of a revamped Mavis Hub, Katana liquidity program and an all new developer portal.
Ecosystem and Axie Core
They announced the concept of Axie Core last month.
Axie Core provides players the means to advance, personalize and bond with their collectibles in a growing collection of meaningful ways.
The Lunacia’s stocking stuffers event introduced the community to Axie accessories by allowing axie holders to claim limited-edition holiday decorations for their assets.
There were also a number of other visual refinements they released such as Axie egg and incubator art, and various axie part upgrades.
Origins Season 2 Adjustments
They continue to refine card balancing and various gameplay mechanics based on the community’s feedback.
They shrunk the game’s season length to 6 weeks and are rewarding top players incrementally throughout the season to create more engaging and regular momentum into the game.
They progressively unlock various parts of the game incrementally throughout the season and reward players that participate in each era with $AXS leaderboard rewards and special item unlocks.
They introduced a new mechanic where progressively valuable items will be rewarded to players who come to play the game consistently.
Contests
They’re excited to introduce in-battle specific missions where players might be asked to do specific actions.
They have a Lunar New year contest that will run from Jan. 25 to Feb. 1, 2023.
Future Plans
Their current top priority is making the battle game itself more engaging and fun for players.
There should be multiple different paths players can take throughout a match that impact their available future options, other player’s decisions and final match outcome.
They have also been exploring an Origins Battle Pass as well as Daily/Weekly Missions that will give players a lot more goals to achieve.
They think there's so much more potential in cosmetics that'll enhance the battling experience.
Another key priority for Origins in 2023 is onboarding the next wave of mainstream gamers.
Axie Infinity Origins to Google
In December, they were thrilled to announce that we passed Google Play Store review after working closely with their trailblazing team over the past year.
They revealed our plans to soft launch a feature-limited version of Origins in the Malaysian Play Store to give our team the opportunity to continue testing and improving the game.
Axie Infinity Homeland
Their vision for Homeland is that it serves as a forever evolving, challenging, fun gathering place for our digital nation to play, socialize and build.
Players tend to play long sessions, and overall retention over the course of the season is excellent.
Despite the early stages of the game’s UX, players show considerable progress in advancing their plots.
The primary goal of this alpha Season 0 release is to transition the game’s development to an iterative feedback and refinement stage.
The inaugural Season 0 will end on January 31st.
It will be followed by a two week period where the game will be offline, all in-game progress will be reset, followed by the kickoff of Alpha Season 1 on February 15th.
Axie Infinity Raylights
Landowners can now cultivate their beautiful plots in Lunacia by sowing minerals and growing plants.
Players can now unlock achievements and earn achievement points by completing various tasks in the game.
A total of 24 achievements and 60 tiers in total have been added thus far, and more are planned for future updates.
Raylights now has surprise “limited-time” minerals that are added to the game to celebrate holidays and special events.
Players can look forward to a new mineral called Celestine, which will unlock multiple celestial plants, and further allows players to customize the garden of their dreams.
Raylights will tweak timing to better engage players and reduce idle wait times.
With an update coming soon, landowners will be able to share access to their land with others.
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Inter the Dungeon
The team behind Inter the Dungeon is thrilled to announce that they’ll have a limited access alpha for the game in the next couple of weeks.
In Inter the Dungeon, players embark on an adventure through treacherous dungeons and face off against fierce monsters.
Axie Quest
In Axie Quest, players bring Axies they own into the game so that they can train in the gym and battle against wild monsters.
Success in training and battle levels up Axies, which unlocks new abilities and skills as it progresses.
The battle arena also allows players to compete against one another and climb up the competitive leaderboards.
TactiCards
TactiCards is an addictive tactical battle card game that allows players to leverage Axie Infinity assets they own to compete against other players in the community.
Axie Infinity War
The team behind AIW continues to make considerable progress, adding considerable new features since the last Dev update, including a new user authentication system, the ability to deposit, withdraw, and leverage $SLP within the game, an in-game chat system, alongside noteworthy enhancements to graphics, gameplay, and the user experience.
Mech Infinity
Mech Infinity is a Battle Royale video game based on the Axie Infinity universe in which players can acquire Axie Mechs and participate in epic battles with chances to win $SLP, $AXS, and more.
The Mech Infinity team created a ranking system to measure player progress and skill.
They implemented a new login and account recovery system to improve security and ease of use.
The team has also added a new Bird Mech to the game, which has increased the fun and variety of characters available to players.
App.Axie
The mission of App.Axie has been to provide core infrastructure for the expanding Axie and related IP platform.
In the Q4 of 2022, they successfully integrated two third party games onto App.axie - Raylights, a land mini game, and DoLL, a graduate of the Axie builder’s program.
They introduced a new addition to the App.axie marketplace - accessories.
To augment this experience, they have also launched a new “Axie Management” page where owners can attach and detach accessories on their Axies.
The marketplace has been upgraded to support displaying fully dressed-up Axies.
eSports
After two successful eSports grants, their third grant of 160,000 $AXS received massive interest, as they received a record number of proposals with a collective total of over 400,000 $AXS of value.
They are excited to move forward over 52 events, which featured tournaments in the Philippines, India, Argentina, Indonesia, Nigeria, Thailand, USA, Brazil, Dubai, Venezuela, and Vietnam.
Axie Manila
256 of the greatest Axie players from around the world gathered to close out the Philippine Web3 festival.
Axie x Cloud9
They are thrilled to partner with one of the world’s largest gaming organizations to increase the scope of Axie esports.
Governance
Progressively empower and encourage mission-aligned community members to further develop Axie Infinity in sustainable, consensus-based ways.
Better harness the collective wisdom of our passionate community.
Iteratively develop the governance infrastructures that will enable collective action at scale.
Learn how to sustainably identify Contributors to Axie Infinity.
Better understand Contributors and what makes them unique.
Empower Contributors to identify priority, near term opportunities to improve Axie Infinity.
Build first iterations of community infrastructure that enable consensus building that can lead to concrete change/action.
Regional Updates
In October, they hosted CabsyCon – the biggest in-person Axie event held in the Philippines with close to 900 attendees.
In November, two big tournaments happened in the Philippines: Axie Open Manila and MMG Tournament.
In December, we hosted a couple holiday-themed community events.
They were happy to collaborate with their allies Sura Gaming to host a panel, a gaming experience booth, and an esports tournament at the event.
Team Queso, one of the biggest gaming guilds in Spain, officially announced their participation in the Axie Competitive Ecosystem with the integration of Rojan, Enefetero, Azaria, Polaco and Monsai.
They were excited to see $AXS officially listed within Bitbank, which is the first exchange in Japan to support their token.
They continue their outreach campaigns, hosting multiple events in both Tokyo and Osaka in the last quarter.
Their Japan regional Axie representative Albert joined a panel with other Web3 developers and guilds at Japan GameFi Night, attended by hundreds of future Axie community members.
Infrastructure
They’re proud that Ronin is fast becoming an accessible and competitive blockchain for a broader gaming collection in addition to Axie.
They’ve begun cultivating robust partnerships with world-class gaming studios and have shipped critical infrastructure enhancements to match as they fulfill their vision of becoming the next generation Web3 publisher.
Ronin began an important journey towards greater decentralization with Saigon Testnet’s successful launch in November 2022.
Saigon gives developers the ability to test and deploy their own smart contracts on Ronin infrastructure.
This month, Saigon Testnet migrated from a Proof of Authority (PoA) consensus mechanism to Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS).
In January, they implemented the 2023 Katana Liquidity Mining Program to increase RON liquidity while decreasing inflation and this involved transitioning $WETH token pairs to $RON token pairs and adjusting the token’s emission structure.
Mavis Hub 2
This update to Mavis Hub serves as a foundation for future Ronin desktop games.
Players can now access Raylights and the community-built Axie DoLL from the same place as Origins and Homeland.
The brand new Mavis Hub UI allows players to login using a Ronin Wallet QR code.
They are supremely confident that 2023 will be regarded as the true breakout year for the network.
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