Online game writer Square Enix introduced Tuesday the launch of a “Chapter 1” allowlist marketing campaign for its upcoming NFT recreation Symbiogenesis, which is able to run on the Ethereum and Polygon networks.
The Remaining Fantasy writer stated that it’ll not maintain a public mint for Symbiogenesis, however as a substitute will roll out character NFTs as rewards for followers who take part within the recreation’s official Discord server over a two-week interval starting Tuesday and ending on November 21. The sport is at the moment set to launch in December.
Getting on the allowlist supplies the prospect to “mint,” or generate, distinctive digital collectibles from Symbiogenesis—probably without spending a dime. Gamers can earn factors and enhance their rating by way of video games and quizzes on the challenge’s Discord server.
Discord customers can take part in three video games to earn factors in direction of the NFT mint: The Fortunate Bloom, the Majority-Minority Sport, and the “Hella Troublesome” Quiz. Prior to the marketing campaign, followers who obtained “relics” by way of different social media contests bought factors primarily based on the quantity collected, in accordance to Square Enix.
Square Enix will launch the five hundred character NFTs on this marketing campaign throughout three phases, the primary of which incorporates 10 allowlist slots for stakeholders and builders on the sport. After that, one other 90 slots will open for highly-ranked gamers, and eventually the final 400 minting slots will likely be opened up to anybody who enters the allowlist marketing campaign.
Whereas the NFTs can probably be minted without spending a dime, Square Enix stated that if any specific characters draw a number of gamers that want to mint it, then these NFTs will likely be put up for public sale. The worth might finally depend upon demand for Symbiogenesis character collectibles.
Symbiogenesis was announced in November 2022 as the corporate’s first NFT recreation within the Ethereum ecosystem. The corporate later clarified that some NFTs will likely be minted on the Ethereum mainnet whereas others will use Polygon, an Ethereum scaling community.
Developed as an unique IP, Symbiogenesis is billed as a “digital collectible artwork challenge” that builds an interactive narrative expertise round character NFTs and different collectibles.
Square Enix has made quite a few strikes within the crypto and NFT world, together with investing in metaverse game The Sandbox and saying that it’ll bring its “Dungeon Siege” franchise to the web world. The corporate has additionally launched Final Fantasy VII trading card NFTs tied to bodily statues, and launched other NFT collectibles in Japan.
Editor’s be aware: This text was written with the help of AI. Edited and fact-checked by Andrew Hayward.