From Beta to Mainnet: a few words from My Neighbor Alice’s CPO
About two months ago, at My Neighbor Alice, we initiated the “Road to Decentralization”, the path towards full decentralization.
Yesterday, Chromia took its first baby step into Mainnet, which will enable our transition to a “live” game on Mainnet.
Our focus remains on two areas: Community and Self-expression, which are enabled by decentralizing the power to the players.
That’s exactly where our motto comes from: Power to the Players.
Our goal, from now on, is to gradually release a Mainnet version of My Neighbor Alice, which means that it should be a game where people can have a coherent and long-lasting experience.
Seasonal Content & Player-Created Content
In My Neighbor Alice, new content is produced every in-game season and generally consumed within 1–2 months.
Our first idea of Power to the Players meant that you own and create content for My Neighbor Alice: your game is shaping our Universe. We are here to give you all the tools and support that you need. In the last six months, we have seen many Neighbors crafting and landscaping extraordinary plots. This is testament and proof that our direction is something that our players find valuable.
Enhanced Tools for Self-Expression & Community Features
That is why, when releasing our Mainnet version, we will also roll out more tools for self-expression: personalization crafting machines, dialog systems, quest tools, and NFT integration features.
All of this is done with the goal of fostering self-expression.
On the community side, we will create a system that allows you to choose your Neighbors, and we will validate this use case during the next Beta Season.
Our main goal is to let the players have a great time together, and for that purpose, we are using (and will use more) mini-DAO features such as:
- Decentralized renting (already existing, will be improved)
- Community quests (already existing, will be improved)
- Community creation (sort of memberships)
- And more…
Each of these features composes our bottom-up DAO: functionalities that facilitate a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) for our Neighbors!
Chromia: an Innovative Blockchain Technology
To this day, there is no chain that allows us to store and execute complex logic and structured data.
In My Neighbor Alice, we care about Decentralization — better: we are really on and about it. Choosing the right blockchain was a very important part of our journey, and that is why we are using Chromia.
We have transactions that are called several times per minute, such as fishing, transactions with well-designed decentralized algorithms, such as farming, and transactions that are data-heavy, such as landscaping.
Not forgetting our vision of giving to the players NFTs that are “Truly yours and truly unique”. Something unimaginable on other chains for complexity and amount of memory required.
This revolutionary technology, which we think Chromia is, was also possible with the joint work between the Chromia and My Neighbor Alice teams.
Collaborative Development
Products such as FT3 (Chromia’s equivalent of ERC20), Originals (NFT standard), bridge, and cross-chain transactions have all been developed, tested, and deployed with or for us.
Now that the Mainnet has arrived, we hope more projects seeking decentralization and development simplicity will join the Chromia ecosystem and start to develop with us.
Future Plans for Development
These Chromia News are amazing for us and another step into our decentralization path. We will continue to increase and develop the tooling and smart contracts libraries (in Chromia’s lingo: modules) while processing our transitions towards Mainnet:
- A new version of FT3 named FT4 is able to better handle cross-chain transactions and account creation abstraction,
- Originals that are richer, with more logic and easier to develop, and a new bridge that will soon be publicly available with a better supported $ALICE on the Chromia network so that you won’t have to bridge all the tokens from BNB / ETH chain but simply purchase them in-game on Chromia (ETH and BNB chain deposits and withdrawals will remain available).
We are currently unsure of when all of these milestones will be reached as few of these don’t depend solely on our development team, but rest assured that on our side, we are already working promptly on them, and we are looking forward to release the Mainnet version of My Neighbor Alice as soon as possible and work on your feedback.
Commitment to Excellence
I am confident that very few games can compare to us in terms of output and the robustness of the Web3 vision.
Our commitment is the same as always, and you can judge how truthful we are based on the amount of code, gameplay, quality, and technology produced in the last year, with the sole purpose of guaranteeing the best experience for our players.
Power to the Players!
See you around the Neighborhood,
Riccardo Sibani
CPO of My Neighbor Alice
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