Mid-March Dev Update

✨ Last weeks in Gold Fever

Oh boy, a lot of stuff happened in the last few weeks.

On the crypto/website tech side we can mention:

• Adding NFT management by a 3rd party
  It means that if you are going to buy a building, but you are too busy to take care of it, set the prices for items and services, adding items into custody, you will be able to give the right to another wallet to take care of that for you. This feature should be pushed soon for beta testers to check.
• Finishing the Gas Station
  The gas station is one of the most important features, that we as a crypto game targeting non crypto users, will bring to life(if the devs manage to override the current hickups). Its role is to pay the fees for every transaction in game, on the website done by any user. It is subject to abuses so we need to be very careful, but you won’t need to add matic tokens into your account in order to play the game and therefore, the learning curve for the normal players will be better.
• Updating the items and the services on the buildings
  You will see some changes to every building that you own because we finally finished our first set of items and services for each building. This part is complex and must reflect inside the game as in a mirror. We need this badly for the Game of Diggers so it should be ready in the following weeks.
• Merchant Rights Updates
  We change how the rights will work and instead of having expensive, one time staking or burning to obtain a right, we will move to monthly/recurring need to burn/stake in order to obtain a game right. This will make the rights obtaining cheaper and more people will be able to stake/burn in order to obtain it. Combined with constant monthly sales of NFTs it should bring the desired token utility we always wanted. This is being pushed once we finish with the gas station.
• Collateral contract
  We are adding a new feature inside the marketplace called collateral borrowing. With this service you can use your NFT to ask for a loan of NGL that you set. You also set a fee that you want to pay as interest and once its saved, other people can counter with offers. Its a feature that could help when you need to use NGL to obtain services that are coming to an end soon or for what ever other economic reason you might want. We hope you will like it.
• Visage NFTs and other NFT
  We solved some of the issues we had with the masks and we think they are pretty close to minting on mainnet. We are still not sure of the perks they will have, but the money raised from this sale should give us the financial stability we need and maybe a bigger war chest for the marketing required in order to push this project‘s launch.
  We also minted some Gold Tools NFTs, weapons and other things that the beta testers will test in the game.
• Bugs Hunting
  We continue solving the bugs coming from the beta testers on the website, but most of them are done. The website is soon going to reach a stage of 80% ready from features point of view.

On the game side we can also mention quite a few things:

• Testing the Unreal Engine 5 Preview 1
  The latest previews 1 and 2 from Unreal Engine solved many problems we found when working with it. We can’t move to it yet because the 3rd party plugins that we use are not being adapted as fast as we want, but our CTO tested the game on preview 1 and the benefits are obvious. We can’t wait to get the final release of the ue5 which should appear by GDC 2022(rumors say)
• Moving to the new map
  We deleted the map that the beta testers played on the last few months and we got to the final one which is pretty damn amazing. Still we are optimizing the damn trees(AGAIN), but the feel you are going to get when playing it is really of a rainforest.
• Companion and Wildlife AI
  Since this is going to be the only AI from our game, we are giving it a special attention and therefore we will stay a lot more on it so you can actually have fun hunting, being chased and so on.
• Other things we do in game
  We are working on improving the crypto plugin, optimizing the API responsible with the buildings items and services, adding the quest system for Game of Diggers, adding the rivers to the entire map, solving ocean issues, refactoring different game play systems that gave us headaches, improving some of the cloth sets that were looking funny, solving many issues with the items pivots ( how they look when you keep them in hand) , adding the new hair system, making the gold tools work with the rivers system so players can actually extract gold, making the arena system work and a lot of other things, while we continue solving bugs.

About Gold Fever

Gold Fever is a challenging free-to-play RPG that leverages the power of the blockchain with the creation of a decentralized economy.

Gold Fever, in its essence, is a thrilling and addictive online multiplayer video game, mirroring the physical world into the digital one and allowing players to take actual ownership of scarce in-game items through Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)

The Gold Fever economy is a junction of many moving parts that are dynamically adjusted. in Gold Fever, all participants have a seat at the table. Being able to vote and to dictate the future of the game through the governance token. Used for proposals on how to improve/evolve this digital world economy.

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