Cosmic Universe — A Blueprint for Our Upcoming Play-to-Earn Blockchain Game

BEHOLD! This old wizard has seen much throughout the aeons.

I have seen civilizations rise and fall. There have been conquests and defeats. Some of the most primitive and immature creatures had grown to become the noblest and wisest of all.

The planet Crypton has seen glorious expansion, with a new realm called Harmony emerging out of the mists of Ethereum, springing forth new possibilities of development within these lands. Indeed, the future is an incredibly bright one it seems, yet it is up to all within this realm to forge their path and define their destiny by exploring, gathering, harvesting, building, and trading.

I call on you to immerse yourself in an entire virtual universe where magic is abundant and the future is what you make it.

Take on the role of a human, feline, troll, snek, raver, wizard, or ape and find yourself a plot of land to call your own. Give praise to the Elementals who have forged the Elements with which you will build your idealistic vision of the future within this realm and beyond.

Explore the mystical realm of Harmony on the planet Crypton and forge alliances with others who call this realm their home. Start out by being a Gatherer and climb the Ascension Ladder until you become an Ascended Celestial.

Create the most advanced land plots and larger tracts filled with futuristic biophillic and technogaian architecture powered by magic, relics, and ancient articles. Expand out into vast Cosmic horizon and become an interplanetary ambassador, developing land in nearby star systems you can portal to, once you are worthy.

Become rewarded for your time, effort, and skill. Create a most glorious interplanetary utopia that will become the talk of the entire cosmos.

Explore mesmerizing planets, gather resources, craft unique items, develop your own land, conjure and wield powerful abilities, become an Ascended Celestial.

Possibilities abound in Cosmic Universe!

We’ve come a long way since CryptoKitties. Back in 2017, these cute NFTs became so incredibly popular that they resulted in massive congestion of the Ethereum smart contracts platform. It was Ethereum’s first test of what would happen if a significant number of people used its network at once…and it decidedly failed that test.

Two years later, a new network emerged called Harmony. What Harmony promised and delivered was everything that Ethereum could do, except it did it much faster and cheaper.

Transaction finality times for Ethereum are around 10 minutes while Harmony’s our at just around 2 seconds. Even more impressive is that Harmony is currently working on getting that down to a single second!

When it comes to transaction fees, gas fees on Ethereum are nothing short of preposterous. As I write this, Ethereum gas prices are $4.31 but they climb into double, and even triple, digits sometimes. What’s the transaction fee on Harmony? $0.000001. Nope, that’s not a typo!

Given the clear advantages of developing a gaming ecosystem on Harmony versus Ethereum, I decided to create Cosmic on this younger and improved network that is still fully Ethereum-compatible, down to being able to use the same 0x-style address you do on Ethereum.

A Cosmic Birth

On June 20th, 2021, on the eve of the Summer Solstice, Cosmic was born.

The role-playing element from the start was an instant hit, as the mysterious Wizzard Blizzard (that would be me) enticed people in the Harmony DeFi community to become a part of a gaming guild that was being established. Not too soon after that, a few play-to-earn gaming tournaments were held within Telegram where COSMIC was distributed.

A month later, being on 5 DEXs with around $10K in liquidity and a community of over 150 people, it was decided that it was time to take things to the next level. This led to a COSMIC Gem Mine being opened and a partnership with the LootSwap decentralized exchange was established, leading to 7 prosperous yield farms being opened up. Currently, there is close to $0.5M in deposits within these pools. The path to success has been a swift one, and it couldn’t have been achieved without the strong, passionate, and dedicated community of over 300 people that has now developed around it.

As time went on, the vision of developing the most popular game on Harmony was coming into focus. As a network with a $1B+ market cap, there was still so much potential. We believe that Harmony solidly belongs in the top 10 cryptocurrencies, and to help it get there, we are going to be developing Cosmic Universe.

What Is Cosmic Universe?

Simply put, Cosmic Universe will be a fantasy-themed open-world adventure MMORRPG on the Harmony network. Players will get to explore worlds in immersive 3D and 3rd person, buy land, harvest and mine resources, build and develop on their land, and create alliances through trade that lead to building more futuristic and advanced villages. The game will make extensive use of gamified NFTs, leading to a massive marketplace where land, characters, resources, and in-game items are bought and sold. You can think of it as being a cross between The Sandbox and Axie Infinity but with a more expanded universe with more unique aspects not found in other games.

Build, Own, and Monetize Gaming Experiences

We want Cosmic Universe to become a decentralized gaming ecosystem that enables players to find, create, share, and monetize NFTs and other gaming experiences on the Harmony blockchain. Land NFTs (virtual real estate) will become a central and highly sought-after feature of Cosmic Universe.

The game is called Cosmic Universe because it will include far more than one single land map like some popular blockchain games feature today. There will be several planets available to explore and benefit from within the game. As the months and years go on, more planets will be added to the game, all of which will be based in actual star systems that are given names by Earth-bound astronomers. This helps blend the virtual with the real world, which helps Cosmic Universe even become a learning experience.

There are two tokens that will be used within Cosmic Universe: COSMIC and MAGIC

To understand what these two tokens are for, let’s use Axie Infinity, the world’s largest and most successful blockchain game, as an example.

MAGIC = AXS

COSMIC = SLP

MAGIC is being used as a governance and yield farming token. It will also be used to buy Land NFTs and pay for user-generated NFTs to be added to the Cosmic NFT marketplace.

COSMIC is used as a utility and rewards token.

Both of these tokens will be instrumental within the game, which ensures their long-term strength and stability.

Entertaining Lore

A primary feature of Cosmic up until now has been the roleplaying nature of it, spearheaded by myself, Wizzard Blizzard. Virtually always staying in character, I encourage a spirit of merriment and lightheartedness, and that is what the nature of Cosmic Universe and its lore will be heavily based on.

Cosmic Universe will have extensive lore that establishes an inspiring and fantasy-themed tale, where each Quest within the game has lore attached to it. There is even cross-guild lore that ties other projects, like Troll Guild, into the same fantasy universe, based on the planet Crypton (the entire crypto space where each continent is a separate blockchain).

In the Cosmic lore, there will be events taking place both on Crypton within the realms of Harmony, Binance, and Ethereum (maybe more realms if other smart contract platforms show promise) as well as in the expanded Cosmic universe in other star systems, which will also turned into NFTS.

Gamified NFTs

People will be able to buy, sell, and trade land on Crypton and entire star systems and also land on planets within them as NFTs, similar to LAND in The Sandbox. Land and character NFTs will be HRC-721 tokens while equipment NFTs will be HRC-1155 tokens. There will be items that can be mined, harvested, and bought to create new items, similar to what is possible on Enjin.

There will be exclusive land sale periods that will encourage people to scoop up prime land before it’s too late. Some land will be more valuable than others, which will follow the model of different degrees of rarity of NFTs. If people don’t buy land during those dates they have to wait until the next land sale.

While Crypton will be the home planet and central location of the action and adventures in Cosmis Universe, there will be portals to other star systems and planets. Portaling through to another planet will require leveling up to a certain level before being allowed to do so. Once reaching the other planets in Cosmic Universe, players can explore them and purchase land NFTs on them, or even win them during minigame gaming tournaments (we are currently developing 4 minigames that are separate from Cosmic Universe). There will be maps with land on other planets in the expanded universe, divided up into NFTs that can be bought and sold on an NFT marketplace.

Players will also get to create their own NFTs and make their own assets that are tradable on the marketplace. To be added to the official Cosmic NFT Collection, players will have to pay a MAGIC fee and receive approval. They will match the templates used by the official collection and will become highly sought-after, as will all NFTs in the official collection over time. Additionally, free NFT items that are mined or harvested on Cypton or other planets can be traded, bought, and sold on the NFT marketplace.

The entire expanded NFT collection is projected to run into the tens of thousands of items when land, sky, character, resource, and equipment NFTs are taken into account.

NFT Characters

The primary NFT card in a player’s collection with be a Character Type card called a Race. There will be 7 races in total:

• Wizards — Aether Shard
• Elves — Air Shard
• Apes — Earth Shard
• Dwarves — Fire Shard
• Felines — Crystal Shard
• Yetis — Water Shard
• Trolls — Stone Shard

Each Race is equal in power and value at the start but will have its own unique advantages and disadvantages within the Cosmic world of Crypton. All characters start at humble beginnings with very little in terms of resources and skills. They all will get to level up after going on Quests, spending more time in the game, harvesting or mining NFTs, and more.

Explore, Harvest, Mine, Build, Trade, and Ascend

As an adventure and world-building RPG, players will explore Crypton and other planets in Cosmic Universe and harvest resources and mine elements, as well as build and trade. They will come across alien races on other planets, who have their own unique cultures, architectural styles, artifacts, relics, elements, and resources.

The more players advance, the more advanced the architecture and skills they have access to become. This will essentially allow them to take an evolutionary path from being little more than a “Gatherer” and to becoming an “Ascended Celestial” with highly advanced abilities and skills. The process of ascension is a continuous advancement in architectural, technological, and magical abilities.

Resources will be spawning all over Crypton and other planets, and be used to build and upgrade architecture. Some resources are more likely to spawn in certain regions/environments than others, making trade (buying and selling) NFTs becoming very popular. The more advanced plots of land, or merged tracts of land, are, the higher the value of the land becomes.

Players will get to combine adjacent plots of land to form larger tracts that enable players to develop in even more land and make technological and architectural advances quicker. Since there is a finite amount of land, larger merged lands will become exceptionally valuable in both the game and on the NFT marketplace. Players can even collaborate in certain ways. Collaboration will almost be a hack in the game to advance farther and quicker, which will help promote greater collaboration among players within Cosmic Universe.

There will also be times when the locals, be they humanoid or animals, may be less-than-inviting to players. This can result in battles where the object is to drain them of enough energy so they get to a critical level that automatically results in them losing the battle. Once a battle is lost, in-game rewards are given to the winners, coming in the form of either COSMIC or NFTs, depending on the type of battle. Those who have become depleted of their energy will have to regain it back in Adventure Mode by either spending more time in the game, buying energy elixirs, of finding energy elixirs in the game.

Synopsis

Cosmic Universe aspires to be a fantasy-themed multi-planetary open-world adventure RPG that is play-to-earn and focused on using an exclusive NFT collection that is heavily focused on buying and developing land, acquiring skills, and forging alliances to develop more and more advanced villages on Crypton and beyond. We believe this game will help Harmony become a top 10 blockchain and with your help, we can make that happen!

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