Bera Horses: The Island of Alpheria
Neigh everyone… gather round, for we have a secret to share.
We are over the moon to announce — Bera Horses: The Island of Alpheria, a Multiplayer Mobile RPG built in Unreal Engine. We’ve been cooking over the last few months and we’ve got a load of alpha to share as well as some community play tests to get the horses out of the stables and onto the track.
Bera Horses: The Island of Alpheria
Bera Horses: The Island of Alpheria is a free-to-play multiplayer RPG coming to Android, iOS and PC. Leave the competition in your dust as you race your horses in real time, riding solo or against your friends. Or kick back and immerse yourself in a rich story line, deciphering friend from foe and uncovering the path on your road to destiny. You can also customise your stables to enhance your chosen path and transact directly with other players, exchanging items and providing services within our player-led economy.
When Can I Play?
We have been testing the demo internally and will be announcing our closed community play tests for Genesis Horse Holders very soon. This will include the core race / battle mechanics and a first iteration of the open world level design intended to give a sense of art style and narrative direction. After collecting feedback from our incredible community of holders, we will work towards our full MVP, which will include the first chapter of the story, as well as the competitive race / battle mechanics and full stables upgrade features.
What is Alpheria?
Alpheria is a small island just off the south east coast of the Nine Kingdom’s of Phaeton. Legend has it that the first horses came from here, blessed with immense power by the gods themselves. Alpheria, these days, is a training ground where riders from all across Phaeton send their foals to be blessed, nurtured and trained on sacred grounds. In those very grounds, a stable worker is training to win the World Leagues and become a Champion Racer, just as their father once did. But two thousand years since the Century Wars and it’s almost as if Phaeton has forgotten the horrors of the Draegoth, or the great victory which the World Leagues was truly intended to celebrate. Instead, peace has led Phaeton to greed and gluttony, with money the only object of the powerful’s ever-watching eye… But when the father of our young stable worker suddenly goes missing… well… perhaps there is something much darker at play.
Why Unreal Engine?
Unreal Engine is a powerful game development engine created by Epic Games and utilised to build games such as Fortnite, Sea of Thieves and Final Fantasy 7. It is arguably unmatched in it’s ability to produce high quality graphics and its unique process of rendering models / textures is extremely efficient when considering NFT integration and the number of models / textures needed to include a full collection. It was the favoured approach by our highly skilled in-house development team, who have been able to move extremely quickly to ship a quality test demo of the core mechanics. We are very excited to share the demo with our community for feedback, as well as continuing to implement the first chapter of the story.
What about the Hytopia Game?
We still plan to deliver on our promise of migrating our Minecraft sever to Hytopia and will continue to keep the server live, cultivating a player base on Minecraft ahead of Hytopia’s launch. We will be speaking more about this approach in upcoming articles and on spaces, as we’re very excited about how the two games can work in tandem with each other to grow our audience.
What does this mean for my NFTs?
The Genesis Horse Collection will remain on ETH and will have utility in the Hytopia game, as was always their intention. We will also be launching a new Bera Horses collection on Berachain mainnet which will be playable in-game. Genesis Horses Holders will be able to claim a Bera Horse on Berachain Mainnet 1:1 for each Genesis Horse they hold on ETH. Two playable NFTs for the price of one… not bad.
What does this mean for $HAY?
$HAY will launch on Berachain mainnet in-line with the game release and will have utility in the mobile game, as well as across the ecosystem via our strategic partners. $HAY tokens will continue to be unlocked and distributed to the horses staked in the stables as each batch of the Genesis Horses mint out in the lead up to mainnet. Read this article here if you want to know more about the batch minting and $HAY token unlocks.
Wen Batch 2?
Batch 2 of the Genesis Horses will go to mint on Thursday 12th September. 1000 horses — 0.02 ETH each. You can mint directly via our web app here, so you better get to the starting line.
That’s all for now folks. We can’t wait to start testing the demo with you all very soon! Join our Discord and follow us on X to keep up with the latest news and as always don’t forget to neigh!
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