A Deep Dive Into Gold Fever

**What Is Gold Fever (NGL)?**


Gold Fever is a thrilling survival MMORPG, fully owned by players. You can mine and fight for $NGL in a blockchain economy driven by #CommercialNFTs owners.

Taking place in a dark and haunting rainforest setting, players can engage in action-packed battles, which are intensified by the game’s varying character strengths and complex terrain. This makes for an intense and highly strategic game that also allows players to develop its infrastructure, acquire expensive planes, and earn by renting them to others. This dynamic was the core idea that helped the team create the commercial NFT, a new use case concept for NFTs - in-game businesses that provide items and services for game players or items that generate passive income or items that can be rented or put in custody. You own them along with the revenue they generate. 


**The Gold Fever Metaverse **

In its roadmap and positioning campaign in top-tier niche media, Gold Fever outlines a detailed path forward to becoming a full-fledged upgraded play-to-earn experience that gives full ownership of the game infrastructure to its players. The very first of its kind in many ways and revolutionary when rethinking yield generation, Gold Fever is in development since Q4 2021. The team released the first beta with Beta Island. Throughout 2022, the developers matured the game core-loop, added more infrastructure, enabled core functionalities of the in-game economy, expanded the story, and plan to deliver a premium pre-launch experience of the game with Game of Diggers, an event meant to generate a general awareness for the game and a market push for their unique commercial NFTs.

Creating the commercial NFTs and setting them in a game-economy that mirrors real-life economy, allowed full decentralization and full ownership of the entire game. The Gold Fever team considers that by doing so, they set up the premises for a reliable metaverse, an alternative universe able to serve your real life and to create wealth by turning what once was an amusement into a possible source of revenue.  

Who Are the Founders of Gold Fever?

Gold Fever was launched by Defi Mechanics Lab, a multi-disciplined team that aims to combine gaming and crypto to create something unique for the players. The development is headed by Emilian Ciocanea, the game’s founder and serial entrepreneur, product and business manager with over two decades of experience. He has been investing in crypto since 2016 and sees the development of Gold Fever as a way to right the wrongs of the crypto market. Working alongside him are Jan Szymanski, the game’s art director with 15 years of experience working in the field of game development, and Pavel Baslak, the CTO, with previous founding experience in the gaming sector.

What Makes Gold Fever Unique?

Gold Fever stands out with its complex strategy features, leveraging blockchain design to incentivize cooperation between players. The game also inspires players to act according to the economic incentives, allowing them to earn NGL while playing. The game creators, discussed the idea of creating wealth as opposed to earning, and underlined that in Gold Fever you can create wealth in four ways:
1. Grind for gold and change the gold at the bank;
2. Destroy, kill and recover gold as a Tribal;
3. Own a commercial NFT business that produces items and services, items that can be rented or put in custody;
4. Land that can be exploited for gold or used to build on.

Equipped with top-class 3D graphics and a focus on quality gameplay, the game's plot is set in an unforgiving wilderness, where a gold rush pits two factions against each other: Tribes and Adventurers. Both are engulfed in a battle over gold and try to take control of the virtual 3D world, which is divided into Mining Claims, unique areas of the jungle containing a set amount of gold.

Players can play with either faction and take different roles. Adventurers are prospectors, medics or hunters, while Tribes are sorcerers, foragers or warriors. By cooperating and combining the skills of each class, players can maximize their chances of success.

The battle over mining claims takes place between these different roles, with owners contracting adventurers to dig for the in-game currency NGL. Owners are incentivized to set fair rates to balance the economic incentives between both parties. However, players can also choose the role of Thieves and steal the gold of mining claim owners. This creates highly complex and strategic gameplay that is further amplified by artifacts and bonus items on every map. Navigating through the virtual world requires using railroads, airplanes, and other infrastructure - the commercial NFTs which will also be ownable, indicating the level of complexity that Gold Fever is aiming for.

How Many Gold Fever (NGL) Coins Are There in Circulation?

Gold Fever employs four different types of tokens. Jul is a virtual unit of account that is only used within the game and cannot be cashed out. Julius’s Brain (JBR) is a governance token periodically airdropped to participants to influence decisions that affect the game. Each NFT in the game is represented by ERC-721 tokens. Finally, NGL is the game’s gold the gameplay centers around.
NGL is used to pay for access, such as purchasing a mining claim. It also unlocks rights and privileges like discounts, perks and skills in the game, exclusive items, events and more. The distribution of NGL is as follows:
Mining: 43.85%
Staking and liquidity: 10%
Team: 15%
Partners and advisors: 5%
VC round: 10.35%, 10.07% on TGE and 3.91% monthly after 3-months cliff
Seed round: 6%, 10% on TGE and 3.6% monthly after 3-months cliff
Angel round: 3.8%, 10.07% on TGE and 3.91% monthly after 3-months cliff
Marketing and acquisition: 5.55%
SHG: 0.45%, 20% on TGE and 20% each following quarter.
How Is the Gold Fever Network Secured?
NGL is an ERC-20 token on Ethereum, one of the most popular blockchains and the go-to solution for many decentralized applications. Its proof-of-work consensus mechanism requires miners to mine new Ether and ensures that Ethereum is one of the safest blockchains in the crypto industry. A set of decentralized nodes validates transactions and secures the Ethereum blockchain.



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Vulcan Forged is a blockchain game studio and NFT marketplace. They are the makers of VulcanVerse.

PYR  is the native utility token that is used for:

Fees for marketplace settlement

Staking in VulcanVerse land and other assets

Upgrading and sustaining game asset levels

Play-to-earn rewards

Access to our game developers and NFT dapp incubation program

Vulcan Forged Platforms and games include:

*VulcanVerse, a Grece-Roman fantasy metaverse made up of 10,000 plots of land

Anvil, a crypto-less and gas-free NFT engine for easy game and dApp onboarding

Vulcan Market, a gas free NFT marketplace for all Vulcan Forged games

Berserk, an NFT online TGG

Frenzy, a create-your-own tournament platform with PYR as it’s reward token.

Vulcan Forged (PYR)

Guild of Guardians is a multiplayer fantasy action RPG on Immutable X. The game’s vision is to become the world’s most popular RPG, where players can assemble a set of Guardians and earn rewards in the process. By combining fun gameplay that will be played on mobile with play-to-earn mechanics, Guild of Guardians aims to build an in-game economy that will be compelling for players to participate in.

The game will initially be accessible on iOS and Android and will be available in 2022. The gameplay revolves around training a team of heroes to collect resources and engage in challenges. The collected resources will be issued and distributed in Gems, the game’s in-game currency that can be redeemed for real money, spent on minting new assets or secondary purchases, and used to vote on game decisions. 20% of all primary and secondary trading fees must be paid for in Gems.

Since mid-2020, Guild of Guardians has racked up over 220,000 followers across different social media channels in its short time of existence. It also sold out its first NFT Founder sale, netting over $4.6 million that will be used for game development.

Guild of Guardians

Ultra is a publishing platform and ecosystem for video games and video game content. Ultra’s mission is to do away with the current monopoly held by publishing platforms like Steam and provide new opportunities to game developers, players, and influencers. Ultra promises a solution that is more equitable to players and developers alike. Players can benefit from immediately playable games, earn UOS by using the platform, and access platform-exclusive games. At the same time, developers benefit from access to more effective marketing tools and the potential for 20% higher sales revenue.

Besides content and game publishing, Ultra offers a demand-side and service-side platform for advertisers, the opportunity for players to resell their used games, and a platform-exclusive app.

Ultra

Gods Unchained is a free-to-play tactical card game that gives players true ownership of their in-game items. Led by the former game director of Magic The Gathering: Arena, the game focuses on competitive play, which means players must strategically outsmart their opponents by building decks that are able to combat a wide variety of tactics. In Gods Unchained players completely own their digital items, giving them the freedom to trade, sell and use their cards any way they like – just like owning real, tangible cards.

GODS is an ERC-20 token used as premium currency within the GU ecosystem. The tokens will be used to:

Create an NFT.

Used within the marketplace and for in-game purchases.

Distributed as a reward to players.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Gods Unchained.

Gods Unchained

RFOX

Aurory is a next-generation studio building a universe of interoperable web3 games. Two original IP’s were born from this universe, which are actively shaping the future of the Aurory player experience.

The first of these two IP’s are Aurorians. A collection of 10,000 anime style NFT characters that double as both a PFP, as well as a playable avatar with various in-game perks.

The second are Nefties. These magical creatures have been designed as non-fungible tokens NFTs with a unique set of stats that influence their performance in-game. They serve as companions on each player’s journey, and can be hatched, traded, collected, and used in battles.

Aurory currently hosts two playable games (both in alpha) which continue to evolve in a live-ops development format:

Seekers of Tokane: A JRPG, where players embark on a dangerous rogue-like adventure through the world of Tokane, collecting and battling fierce Nefties in epic turn-based combat.

Aurory Tactics: A PvP timeline-based battling game where players must learn how to best use their Neftie creature's abilities, competing against opponents to rise to the top of the leaderboard for rewards and glory.

The project proudly boasts one of the most experienced executive and development suites in blockchain gaming, with dozens of talents from established gaming studios, such as Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, Rovio, Warner Bros, and more.

Aurory

Seedify.fund(SFUND) Seedify is a blockchain gaming-focused incubator and launchpad that empowers innovators and project developers through access to funding, community and partnership building, and a full support system to help drive the future of gaming and blockchain. Its ecosystem also includes an NFT launchpad for gaming and metaverse assets, along with the industry's first gaming-and-metaverse-asset-centric NFT marketplace, Seedify NFT Space.

Featuring an IGO launchpad with a tiered allocation mechanism, Seedify enables $SFUND holders to stake their tokens and earn staking rewards while gaining access to quality, procured blockchain gaming projects through private sales and initial game offerings. The launchpad's tier system consists of nine tiers. Tier 1 uses a lottery-based allocation process, while tier 2 to 9 participants enjoy guaranteed allocation.

Along with IGOs, stakers can also participate in initial NFT offerings (INOs) and initial metaverse offerings (IMOs) on Seedify's NFT Launchpad. Additionally, staking $SFUND, gives holders the opportunity to receive tokens from the projects that have been selected and supported by Seedify's incubation program.

Committed to bringing the opportunities offered through blockchain gaming and the play-to-earn model to billions around the globe, the Seedify team has established key relationships with numerous VCs and industry peers, to build an extensive support network for blockchain gaming and metaverse startups.

Interested game industry innovators submit their project proposal to the Seedify

Seedify acts as a launching pad for blockchain games and the disruptive play-to-earn gaming model. The gaming industry is gradually entering a new era — previously gamers may spend large sums of money on in-game items with no direct monetary benefits. However, they are now able to make money by earning in-game item non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and tokens, which is facilitated by the play-to-earn revolution.

Blockchain technology has not only opened up more opportunities for gamers and game developers, but it has also offered additional forms of benefits like transparency, ownership, incentive models and digital ownership through NFTs.

The team behind the Seedify project are pursuing a global goal: to acquaint gamers with the blockchain and increase the rate of technology adoption, attract a huge number of users, create more jobs and financial benefits.

Seedify.fund

Wilder World

Illuvium is an open-world fantasy battle game built on the Ethereum blockchain. Often touted as the first AAA game on Ethereum, Illuvium looks to provide a source of entertainment to both casual gamers and hardcore DeFi fans through a range of collecting and trading features.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Illuvium.

The world of Illuvium is inhabited by creatures known as Illuvials, who can be captured by players that best them in battle and nurse them back to health. From then on, they become a loyal part of the player’s collection and can be used when battling other adventurers as part of Illuvium’s auto battler gameplay.

The game is a fusion between an open-world exploration game and a PVP battle game. Players can spend their time exploring the expanses of the game world or building up their team of powerful beasts.

Illuvium has been in development since 2020, and is being built by a worldwide team of more than 40 individuals, including the co-founders; serial entrepreneur and early cryptocurrency adopter Kieran Warwick, and experienced game designer Aaron Warwick, who are brothers. (And who are coincidentally also the brothers of Kain Warwick, the co-founder of DeFi platform Synthetix).

The ILV token has a number of uses within the Illuvium ecosystem. It’s the main token used to reward players for their in-game achievements, entitles players to their share of the Illuvium Vault and is used for participating in the governance of the game via the Illuvium decentralized autonomous organization (DAO).

Illuvium

Efinity is a cross-chain NFT platform developed by Enjin and built on Polkadot. Efinity was created as the next generation blockchain for digital assets with the aim of adapting to the challenges of the world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), according to the project.

The main specialization of the Efinity project is the NFT space. With the protocol, traders and gamers can create, distribute, transfer, sell and buy NFTs. Efinity aims to remove barriers to entry into the NFT space/decentralized gaming, and to simplify user experience and digital asset governance.

Efinity Token powers the entire Efinity ecosystem, EFI aims to prioritize the generation, transfer and purchase of tokens using an inter-chain infrastructure of protocols resulting in lower transaction fees. As for incentives, rewards on PoW blockchains with NFT functionality go to miners who create/trade tokens, thereby forming a community.

One of the long-term goals of Efinity is to become a hub for both fungible and non-fungible tokens, accepting tokens from any other chain, facilitating the pricing and exchange of NFTs, increasing transaction volume, and creating network effects.

In December 2021, the project won the Polkadot parachain auction, and in March 2022, Enjin launched their flagship parachain Efinity on the Polkadot Relay Chain — a blockchain platform that provides a decentralized parachain network where people havecontrol over their data and identity.

Efinity Token

Bloktopia is a decentralized metaverse backed by and built on Polygon. In Bloktopia, a decentralized virtual reality skyscraper made up of 21 levels (as recognition to 21 million Bitcoin) acts as a central hub for users to have access to crypto information and immersive content in one place. The so-called Bloktopias can educate themselves in the basics or more advanced crypto learnings, earn revenue by owning virtual real estate, play games, build networks and more. Moreover, advertisers and sponsors can monetize the platform’s userbase through a dedicated NFT mechanism. By providing a VR experience for the crypto community, users can engage in an immersive environment according to Bloktopia’s four core pillars: learn, earn, play and create.

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While the concept behind Merit Circle is not entirely new, the project itself is a leading DAO with the goal to maximize value accrual across different games in the metaverse. Its platform is at the intersection of capital, expertise and players — representing investors, platform and managers — and of course,  gamers.

The returns that the project has the potential to make will be able to translate into potentially life-changing income for some of the gamers engaging with it. The players have recognized the value of the project and the scholarship program that was created for them, and there are already over 500 scholars currently playing Axie Infinity.

There are already significant revenues that are flowing into the Circle of Merit, which benefits the DAO itself, as well as players and liquidity providers. More are expected to come, especially since Merit Circle DAO will now start focusing on other opportunities in the metaverse through new games.

Furthermore, Merit Circle boasts an impressive list of partners, including DeFiance Capital, Spartan Group, Yield Guild Games and more. These and others are all industry-leading names, who have praised Merit Circle for building a scalable operational process that can effectively grow, onboard, and sustain new members. In fact, DeFiance Capital’s Arthur said that DeFiance believes that “Merit Circle will be among the top guilds that will be kingmakers in this land.”

All of the partners, plus a number of angel investors, supported the company during its seed round, helping it raise $4.5 million

Merit Circle

Splinterlands is a digital, collectible card game based on blockchain technology and inspired by games like Magic the Gathering and Hearthstone, where players build a collection of cards with different attributes and battle other players in skills-based matches. It is a game where players can buy, sell and trade their digital assets just as they would with physical trading cards games such as Magic the Gathering, Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh!

Splinterlands was created as players lost the ability to truly own their assets (or trading cards) once games went digital. With blockchain technology, it allows players to own and trade their digital assets freely once again. It also allows the game to have true scarcity and transparency, which means all cards on Splinterlands have a verifiable supply and historical record.

Players battle other players by choosing ranked or practice battles. With ranked battles, players can increase their rating. There is no downside to playing ranked battles as a beginner since players with a rating below 100 do not lose ranking points. Battles take place between players of similar strength. When matched up with an opponent, both players choose a set of six monster cards and one summoner card for the battle to destroy all their opponent’s monster cards and win the battle.

Although the game is free-to-play, players need to purchase the summoner’s spellbook for $10 if they want to unlock the game in full. With the summoner’s spellbook, players get access to their account keys and unlock the ability to earn Dark Energy Crystals, which can be redeemed for real currency.

Splinterlands started in May 2018 and launched Splintershards (SPS) – its governance token for the SPS decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) at the end of July 2021. It concluded a $3.6M private token sale for 6.6% of the SPS token supply. After reaching 100,000 players in its first three years, it added another 50,000 in just over a month from June 2021. Splinterland plans to build out its game in the latter half of 2021, with oracle integration planned for Q1 2022.

Splintershards

Verasity is an open-ledger ecosystem designed to fight advertising fraud, provide open access to infrastructure for publishers and advertisers, and reward users for watching video content. Verasity also provides payment solutions and a rewarding staking ecosystem with 15% yields guaranteed through to April 2024.

Powered by a mix of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and cutting-edge blockchain technologies, Verasity is building the most powerful advertising ecosystem in the world through VeraViews; developing an open-access payments platform through VeraWallet, the VeraCard, and VeraPay; and enhancing the attention economy through its patented Rewarded Video module.

Verasity

Mines of Dalarnia (DAR) is an action-adventure game with a blockchain real-estate market. MoD is based on a simple and simultaneously captivating gameplay, where users can mine and combine in-game items, then utilize them to upgrade their characters (skills and equipment), thereby increasing their rank in the game. Players can go in search of rare artifacts / relics / minerals, complete quests, team up with other players to defeat monsters and unlock rewards.

Mines of Dalarnia

Yield Guild Games (YGG) is the world’s first and biggest web3 gaming guild where players can find their community, discover games and level up together. Its mission is to become the leading community-based user acquisition platform in web3 gaming.

As a network of gaming guilds focused on web3 games, YGG is committed to providing opportunities for its members to achieve success in web3 gaming through questing initiatives such as Superquests and the Guild Advancement Program (GAP). These enable members to build their on-chain identity through its achievement-based reputation system.

From its roots in the Philippines to its global network of regional guilds and partnerships with over 80 blockchain games and infrastructure projects, YGG caters to an ever-expanding community of gamers and blockchain enthusiasts.

Yield Guild Games

SuperVerse

DAO Maker (DAO) is an incubator that provides growth technology and SaaS solutions for crypto startups. The goal of this project is to help startups secure venture capital funding by making it simpler for investors to locate projects in which they can securely invest via IDOs.

DAO Maker works by helping new projects build their communities and then converting these communities into value-adding members of a DAO using tokens.

Retail investors can invest in digital assets and stocks at an early stage through the platform’s investment system, DAO Pad. It’s designed to help crowdfund young protocols by appealing to small-scale investors.

In addition to this investment system, the company also incubates new projects, gives users social mining rewards, and offers advisory services and advice on how to run their companies.

Several successful projects have been launched through DAO Maker, including Orion Protocol, My Neighbor Alice, LaunchX, and DAFI Protocol. The platform also helped launch Seascape Network (CWS) and Infinity Pad (IPAD).

DAO Maker

Aavegotchi (GHST) is the governance token of the Aavegotchi NFT Gaming protocol. GHST token holders receive voting power in the AavegotchiDAO, which oversees all aspects of the protocol, Aavegotchi’s flagship game the Gotchiverse, and Aavegotchi NFTs.

Aavegotchis themselves are pixelated ghosts backed by the ERC-721 token standard. The Aavegotchi NFTs have dynamic metadata that changes over time through user interaction.

An Aavegotchi’s value and rarity is determined by its collateral stake, traits and wearables.

Collateral stake is based on the innovative ERC721 Aavegotchi NFT that manages an escrow contract holding Aave-backed ERC20 collateral or "aToken," which generates yield via Aave's LendingPool. Traits are based on random traits upon birth, kinship and experience (XP).

The protocol is called Aavegotchi as a nod to Aave, which translates to “ghost” in Finnish, and is powered by the Aave protocol, one of the leading lending protocol in DeFi. The token ticker also cleverly spells out “ghost,” minus the vowel.