Veteran game developer, Peter Molyneux, responsible for games like Populous and the Fable series, has launched an NFT gaming platform, Legacy, a virtual recreation of London where players can purchase digital plots of land. Legacy uses NFTs and cryptocurrency, and is being co-developed with blockchain gaming company Gala Games alongside 22cans, Molyneux’s studio. Within a week of its launch, players have already invested over $54 million into purchasing over 4,500 plots of land.
Described as “the first ever Blockchain Business Sim,” Legacy lets players design in-game products and buildings that are then manufactured by virtual workers in in-game factories. Players can trade those items with other players in an “open market” and compete in in-game competitions for “leaderboard positions and big prizes”
Everything in your experience, including your factories, your workers, houses, roads, and anything else in your town is all up to you to design and coordinate. One of the gameplay functions you’ll encounter is that you will have to, in the nature of sims, manage your business while also making sure your townspeople are happy and have what they need. This increases efficiency and makes your business even more successful.
The game mechanics will function with a “moral choice” type ethos that’s been prevalent in all of his previous games. Certain events will occur in-game that will sometimes pit players against each other via moral quandaries that urge them to be nicer to each other to turn a bigger profit margin.
Legacy stands to function as a VR chat style MMO with a cryptocurrency platform sort of hybrid experience. The currency itself is ran on the Ethereum blockchain and is named Legacycoin, and offers NFTs of various things like 3D dioramas of cityscapes. It can be used to run virtual businesses in the game that can potentially bring forth real life returns of investment.
(All information was provided by Niche Gamer, MMORPG, and Ars Technica)
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