According to Coingecko data, Ronin, the token of the Ethereum sidechain Ronin Network, has shown a significant increase in the past week, with a weekly increase of 63.3%, and is currently priced at $0.82 at the time of writing.

According to Nansen data, the number of active wallet addresses on Ronin has doubled in the past few days, soaring to over 7,000. Although there is no clear data pointing to it, the community generally believes that this growth comes from Pixels, a game recently promoted by Ronin.

In 2022, Pixels completed a $2.4 million seed round of financing, led by Animoca Brands and PKO Investments, with participation from OpenSea. On October 31, 2023, Pixels migrated to Ronin, an EVM blockchain designed for gaming launched by Sky Mavis, the creator of Axie Infinity.

After more than a week of migration to Ronin, what makes Pixels unique in its gameplay as it celebrates its second anniversary on November 10th? How has the ecosystem progressed after the migration to the Ronin chain? BlockBeats has compiled relevant information on this.

Pixels' Core Philosophy

Pixels is a metaverse farming game launched in 2021, which recreates the atmosphere of classic 16-bit role-playing adventures, allowing players to navigate in a pixel art world, interact with each other, cultivate land, play mini-games, and earn token rewards. It also allows holders of selected NFT personal profile picture (PFP) collectibles to use their owned avatars in the game.

A P2E game requires a mature team to ensure stable operation. The Pixels team's vision can be understood from three aspects: game fun, interoperability, and decentralization.

In terms of the fun factor of the game, Pixels' design allows all types of users to experience the joy of gaming. Community KOL @0xPixelPenguin believes that Pixels' rich gameplay and ecosystem can meet the needs of different groups of people. Professional players can choose to spend money to decorate their Land NFT and earn land taxes by letting other players plant on their land; ordinary players can "work" for professional players to earn wages. In addition, players can participate in periodic events led by the team (such as Thanksgiving turkeys, Easter eggs, etc.) to receive rewards.

Regarding interoperability, Pixels leverages the unique advantage of blockchain games - Pixels has implemented the first NFT integration, allowing users to connect their Metamask wallet and roam as their NFT in the Pixels world. According to the Pixels team, more than 50 NFT collections have been integrated. "In our view, these discussions about the metaverse refer to a mesh of interrelated adventures, games, and spaces where your digital identity can flow."

In terms of the concept of decentralization, Pixels adopts a product-first approach to gradually achieve decentralization. Early decentralization mainly focused on owning game items on the chain, but many game mechanisms are executed on the server side, which can speed up development and shorten response time, thus providing players with a better gaming experience. In the future, the actual implementation of these mechanisms can be migrated to the chain and contracts.

Early decisions will also focus mainly on the Pixels team, in order to pay attention to the long-term health of the ecosystem in the early stages. The team is envisioning and building a decision-making system that allows for decentralized financial management, economic planning, and more. As the game and ecosystem mature, more and more systems can be decentralized.

Gameplay

Create Account: Go to game homepage and click PLAY FOR FREE. Currently, you need to create a game account through Ronin Wallet.

After creating an account, you can start the beginner's task. Some players have shared the specific steps to complete the beginner's task.

Interoperability: NFT Integration

Pixels' tools allow for local integration with other projects, including tokens, land NFTs, utility NFTs, and PFP NFTs. Currently, Pixels has integrated over 50 NFT brands for in-game avatars, including BAYC, Crypto Phunks, and more. Users can integrate more NFT collections here.

Pixels 已集成的部分 NFT

Translation:

Pixels integrated part of NFT

Token Economics

Pixels Universe has three types of assets, namely land, resources, and tokens, all of which are stored on the chain. Land is the floating land feature of the Pixels universe. Players can choose to settle on three types of land, each with its own privileges and limitations.

Land

The free and rented plots are mainly single-player game instances, and players' farms cannot be seen by visitors. Players can access the game's features without owning a piece of land.

Free Land: also known as Specks, this is the most basic type that allows players to engage in basic agricultural activities. Free land does not provide many features and offers much lower yields than other types.

租用地块： Renting land plots: Renting land plots provides players with more freedom, better production, and decoration space. However, the downside is that players must rent them out, resulting in the confiscation of most of the bonuses when using this type of land plot.

Self-owned land: Self-owned land provides players with additional space, functionality, and the highest income/revenue among all types of land. There are two variants of self-owned land, namely small self-owned NFT and large self-owned NFT, each with its corresponding level of revenue.

The landowner has unique interests related to land ownership, which can be used by all industries for their own land, and some industries are exclusive to their own land. Landowners increase the value of NFTs through work, industrialization, automation, and decoration. Active industries are limited by the available land area, but overall they are unlimited. As long as the land area is sufficient, the land can be sealed at any time and a new industry can be launched.

The landowner has the richest interactive tapestry in the pixel. They can manage their own land resources, benefit from tenant farmers producing land, and become tenant farmers on other owned land.

Each NFT farm will have available resources and the highest level of resources not found on public land (including free tenant Speck and leased tenant land). Players obtain these resources by establishing tenant relationships with landowners.

Resources

$BERRY

$PIXEL

On the day Ronin went live, there was a significant increase in trading volume within Pixels. One week after going live, UAW rose by over 500%. According to the team, Pixel will launch its governance token $PIXELS in Q4.

BlockBeats found that many of the KOLs promoting Pixels are deep players of Axie Infinity. In addition, Ronin and Jihoz, the founders of Axie Infinity, appeared in the NPC of Pixels. Jihoz himself often promotes Pixels on his official account and said, "To be honest, Pixels has the early feel of Axie."

What can be determined is that this is a "win-win" migration. DappRadar Ambassador @0xxNathan stated on X that "we can see that Pixel and Ronin have formed a perfect synergy with the strong support of the Ronin community. This indicates that Ronin is poised to become one of the best blockchain networks in all games, thanks to their excellent and loyal community."

Recently, the chain game market has shown signs of recovery following the overall market trend, and Pixels has achieved initial results. BlockBeats reported that on November 7th, according to Blur market information, the NFT floor price of the chain game sector has generally increased. Among them, the NFT floor price of Pixels' land block is now reported at 0.39 ETH, with a weekly increase of 59.18%.

Ronin can bring how much help to Pixels, and whether Pixels can become the second Axie Infinity on Ronin, remains to be seen over time.

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