Crypto Unicorns
Play & Earn Game with An Adorable Twist
Key takeaways:
With the ever-growing interest in GameFi, Laguna Games introduces Crypto Unicorns as their “first digital nation” and aims to “nurture community run game economies through Play-and-Earn movement”.
Crypto Unicorns initially started with 10,000 Unicorns hatched from Genesis Egg as foundation of the game. With final Phase 3 Land sale concluded on 2nd Feb 2022, Crypto Unicorns’ community is eagerly anticipating for Land gameplay to be released in March 2022 (and more by Q2 2022).
This article covers Crypto Unicorns’ various gameplays, in-game economy, ways to earn in the game and important milestones in the game’s roadmap.
Crypto Unicorns is a Polygon blockchain game developed by Laguna Games studio, featuring cute Unicorn NFTs which enable players to farm, joust, race and team RPG. This project is currently backed by notable investors such as BITKRAFT, Delphi Digital and Polygon Studios. The team is also partnering with numerous PlayerDAOs such as Yield Guild Games, YGGSea, IndiGG, GuildFi, Loot Squad and Merit Circle.
Crypto Unicorns mainly centers on farming simulation which takes place on Land NFTs that players can acquire and upgrade over time. The Land gameplay is expected to be released in March 2022. At the time of writing, Phase 3 Land pre-sale has been completed on 2nd Feb 2022. All 10,000 Land plots were sold out in 10 minutes depicting an overwhelming support for this project.
On the Land itself, players can assign Unicorn to boost berries production. Berries are useful for breeding, evolution and crafting. The Land NFTs are categorized into 3 types of rarities: Common, Rare and Mythic plots, which provide buffs to players during harvesting, gathering and crafting.
Common Land: Comes in 9 different types (one for each Unicorn class). Provides buff when using Unicorn class matches the Land class.
Rare Land: Comes in 3 different types (one for each class group). Provides buff when using Unicorn from the same class group.
Mythic Land: Comes in 1 type only and provides buff to ALL Unicorn classes. Mythic land is the most sought after as it is the most beneficial to all Unicorns and scarce in quantity.
Additionally, players can also combine their lands together in adjacency to share adjacency bonuses during harvesting/gathering/crafting on the land. This will be a prominent feature of Neighborhoods gameplay.
Aside from Land gameplay, players can also deploy their Unicorns to a variety of tournaments and battles which are expected to be released per timeline below:
Q2 2022 – Jousting Tournament whereby 32 Unicorns will compete in a series of bracketed matches with the last one standing Unicorn as the winner. Nine Jousting Arenas will be released over time, to cater to each Unicorn class. Neighborhoods feature will also be released which enable players to combine lands together with friends/guildmates for shared adjacency bonuses to increase land productivity output.
Q3 2022 – Unicorn Racing whereby eight Unicorns compete against each other and receive varying rewards based on Unicorns’ ranking. Different racetracks with attributes such as class, distance, weather and length will be introduced to cater to a wide range of Unicorn traits.
Q4 2022 – 5v5 Team RPG will be released by incorporating PVE and PVP elements. This gameplay is expected to have highest skill curve compared to other gameplays and will serve as basis for eSports event in Crypto Unicorns.
How to Play & Earn?
To get started, it is recommended to have at least one (1) Unicorn & one (1) Land with matching class to the Unicorn. You can purchase both NFTs from Opensea marketplace:
Alternatively, you can also approach their partner gaming guilds to enquire about any scholarships offering for Crypto Unicorns.
Dual-token model is applied in Crypto Unicorns —> Rainbow Token (RBW) and Unicorn Milk (UNIM). Based on Crypto Unicorns’ Whitepaper V2, token use cases and ways to earn are summarized in table below:
Currently UNIM token has been launched, but not RBW token. Public sale for RBW token is expected to be launched on 25 Feb 2022 via Copper Launch platform on Polygon, which utilizes Balancer’s Bootstrapped Liquidity Pool mechanism.
RBW Tokenomics:
Notably, RBW tokens assigned to the Team (20%) and Investors (15%) will be locked up for 1 year after TGE, with 2 years of linear unlock afterwards, underlining the Team and Investors’ long-term commitment to this project.
On-Chain Mini Game: Shadow Corns
While awaiting the Land gameplay to be launched, Laguna Games has released an on-chain mini game called Shadow Corns, which enable players to stake their Unicorns to earn UNIM tokens on daily basis. Then players can try their luck to summon rare Shadowcorn Egg with the UNIM tokens. Loot Boxes with in-game goodies will be provided, if failed to summon Shadowcorn Egg. If you’re one of the Unicorn owners, you wouldn’t want to miss this event!
As such, this sums up our write-up on Crypto Unicorns. If you’re interested to know more about this project, do visit their official website & social media outlets for details and updates.
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