Solana Game ‘Aurory’ Expands With ‘Tokane Seekers’ and Epic Games Store Launch

The world of Aurory has become a whole lot bigger with the recent times Token seekers Additionally, it's bringing a “roguelike” role-playing game to the Pokemon-inspired fantasy warrior — and the game is launching on the Epic Games Store, a major gaming marketplace.

Token Explorers will begin early access to Aurora NFT holders on Thursday, and access codes will be released to the wider community in the coming weeks, according to a separate statement. Decrypt.

The expansion will add what the Aurory team calls “unlimited volume” to explore different areas where players can use Nephites, or magical creatures, to battle other creatures in the area. This player-versus-environment (PVE) expansion is a first for the game, which is still in development but previously launched a limited version of player-versus-player (PVP) Blitz Battles earlier this year.

Aurora's new expansion has what the developers call a “procedural terrain generation system,” meaning that every time the player travels through a portal from the village of Blanche, they will be transported to a newly created area that won't be exactly the same. twice.

Similar to a role-playing game (RPG) like Diablo 3, players can explore and battle their way through new lands as they search for an exit portal to return to Blanche. If a player dies before using an exit portal, they will lose any assets accumulated while traveling through that world. That's a familiar approach to “roguelike” RPGs, especially those that are challenging and unforgiving—yet rewarding.

“Because of our procedurally generated content, we have an infinite amount of game worlds to explore. That's the beauty of the system we designed. It pulls a random terrain seed and puts Lego pieces together to generate a unique terrain from that seed,” said Aurory Executive Producer. Jonathan Camp They spoke Decrypt via email.

“As the world evolves, we will add new biomes/areas into the mix,” Campeau added.

Aurory's Seekers of Tokane (SoT) update brings new features such as a character customization system, more controls, and added “items” in PVP Blitz Battles and a Nephite upgrade system called “Amplifiers”.

The avatar customization feature brings 67 different customization options for gaming fans with non-NFT avatars, allowing them to choose fashion choices such as hairstyles, clothes and shoes.

Blitz PVP Battles now give players more control over the minutes of their battles by choosing each of the three moves for Neftie each round or swapping one low health Neftie for another. And like Pokemon, the element associated with a given Neftie will now be stronger or weaker against different types of opponents (for example, Fire Nefties have an advantage over Plants).

“My team played all the Pokemon games to figure out the winning formula,” Campeau said. Decrypt. “We were inspired by its simplicity but wanted to put our own spin on it, which is where the idea for the ‘3 actions per turn' battle system came from – a system we now call Blitz Battles.

When Aurory first launched NFTs and the AURY token on Solana, the group announced its plans to do so Extend Arbiterum to the Ethereum Layer-2 network in July in an effort to cast as wide a net as possible.

But building a blockchain-enabled game in a web browser isn't without its challenges, Campau said.

“Your typical browser always caches a lot of things that can interfere with game development,” says Campeau. Decrypt. “During Soti production, we realized we had reached the technical limits of what WebGL could offer.”

“It works great for smaller games like Aurory Tactics, but what we built with Token Seekers is closer to the average MMO,” he continued. We encountered several issues related to performance and long-term loading that prompted us to look for alternative distribution sites.

From a technical perspective, Aurori is growing its browser-based roots — and the team announced Wednesday that Token Explorers will soon be in Epic Games Store.

“The difference in experience is insane,” said Campeau, comparing the browser and desktop versions. “I can't wait for players to try it.”

Edited by Andrew Hayward.