The Beacon Review: The Hottest Game On Arbitrum Right Now

The Beacon is an RPG that received funding from the Arbitrum Foundation, featuring a play-to-airdrop program. With the announcement by Arbitrum of a 250 million ARB fund for the on-chain game ecosystem, The Beacon gains popularity.

What is The Beacon?

The Beacon is the game that currently tops the list on Treasure DAO—an ecosystem with hugely varying genres of games atop Arbitrum. Players will become characters and dive into the dungeons that are full of monsters. They collect different kinds of items by fighting against the monsters.

“The New Frontiers Quest” is the campaign of the project, racing users to play and hunt for airdrops to be listed in the whitelist. Phase 1 of the campaign lasted three weeks and started on June 11.

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Game modes

• PvE Content: Players are left alone to wander dungeons filled with dependent monsters. The mission is to destroy all monsters, survive, and collect NFTs being dropped in the process.

• Build Your Home: From decoration to beacons or integrated NFTs from partner projects, decorate how you like.
  
• Social: form a team with friends, fighting together in dungeons. Similar to PvE content but with more teammates.

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NFTs in The Beacon

Like other NFT games, The Beacon has its own NFT system, including three main types and one campaign NFT:

Founding Characters

These are the benefits for the players who will hold this NFT:

• Chance to pick up items dropped during combat. The difference this makes is that players with NFTs will pick up items, unlike other free players who will not.
• A chance to receive airdrops from the project.

Items

Players can collect these while inside dungeon explorations. Others are from The Beacon and other partners. These NFT items can also be traded and sold at the same value on Treasure DAO’s Marketplace.

Pets

Pets will join you within dungeon exploration, of which there are 4,100 in the total NFT supply. This will increase the drop rate of the user during dungeons and bring other benefits in the future. By default, it will be the holders of NFT pets who will be receiving NFT Writs of Passage mints and bonus chests.

The Writ of Passage

Probably one of the most valuable NFTs would best fit in the Treasure DAO game ecosystem, particularly in the context of the Beacon. This Whitelist NFT is desirable to players during the best and even better times, apart from the thrill of hunting an airdrop.

All these quests in The New Frontiers Quest benefit from entering a player into some random raffle for minting the Writ of Passage. The live raffle, whose timeframe has been announced, is somewhere in early July. The NFT’s benefits include:

Manage and enjoy access to programs like The Beacon, among many others, within the Treasure DAO ecosystem. Be able to participate in Phases 2 and 3 of The New Frontiers Quest. Participate in token airdrops and earn further rewards with WRIT upgrades upon completing future quests.

Tokenomics

The project has not disclosed any official tokenomics yet.

Team and Investors

Team

The project is developed by the team of Skillcap Studio, which includes the following key members:

• Diego Vidaurre (Co-Founder & CEO)—formerly of Gamebit Studio, a game development company utilizing Blockchain technology.

• Rafael Vidaurre (Co-Founder & CTO): Software engineer with more than 2 years of experience. Co-founder of Gamebit Studio.

• Davy Li: Co-Founder & COO with experience in art and map search applications from Gamebit Studio, currently developing The Beacon.

Investor and partners

There is no official information on the project’s investors.

How to play The Beacon

Note that participation requires one to link a Twitter account that has at least 35 followers and is older than 3 months.

The New Frontiers Quest represents the newest event for The Beacon. Players can take part in airdrops and export NFT Writ of Passage mints, all in return for their participation. Here’s what you need to do:

1. Earn Prestige Points: Some points will be collected after the completion of quests or inviting friends to the platform—more prestige points mean you have a higher chance of winning an NFT mint.
2. Complete Quests: Finish all the tasks, both ordinary and social. If all the tasks are completed by the user, they will become eligible to participate in the mint NFT Writ of Passage lottery.
3. Leo Rank: Depending on your Prestige score, you’ll have a respective rank. The higher the rank, the better the reward will be. Ranks are categorized into five: Novice, Scout, Ranger, Vanguard, and Landseeker. Tokens will be rewarded in proportion to rank, too.
4. Chests: Through Phase 1, you will have the opportunity to open chests that hold ARB tokens, authentic items, and Medallions that represent a load of tokens, among other rewards.

Step 1: Head to The Beacon to get started.

• Click “Log in with Twitter.”

• Click “Authorize app.”

• Click “Continue.”

Step 2: Click each of the squares as indicated in the image, then click “Go Quest” to begin the task.

• Most initial quests require only the basic actions of following the project’s Twitter, linking to Discord, posting about a project, etc.

• When you are done, click “Verify” to earn points.

Step 3: Combat missions will be played according to the following steps:

• Move: by AWSD keys.
• Attack: Left-click to attack, and hold the Right mouse button to start charging your attack for more damage.
• Surf: Press spacebar – SPACE to surf and dodge attacks.

• That’s all. It’s a game with progressively harder levels of high difficulty. Not everybody passes the test.

Step 4: Once tasks have been done and passed verification, one will have the right to claim Prestige Points.

• Having those points, a user moves to the “Chest” section to open them and get, based on one’s luck, either original items as a reward or just fake stuff.

Roadmap

Currently, the project’s development roadmap has gone beyond Q1/2024:

1. Version 1 released;
2. Co-op Mode released;
3. PvP mode added;
4. Gameplay enhancements;
5. Pet breeding mechanism and Marketplace launch.

At the moment, gameplay is only available in solo mode. In the future, a co-op mode will increase player interaction and attract more users to the project. The pvP mode will give players more options than just fighting monsters and overcoming levels.

Breeding pets will open up new markets for players to create extra ways of earning money. Players can trade, sell, or breed pets and then resell them. This will increase the in-game economy, enhancing value for the players and the project by increasing the number of transactions and, hence, fees received from the Marketplace.

Conclusion

Lacking in the GameFi world are many things, while giving more priority to gameplay rather than elements and content refinement, storyline refinement, The Beacon would make a much-enhanced gamer experience.

CoinCu comments further highlighted that The Beacon’s engaging role-playing gameplay would ask for a high skill level from the player and opportunities to reward it in phase 1, hence the grants from Arbitrum Foundation would make it very famous very soon.

FAQs

What role do NFTs play in The Beacons?

NFTs in The Beacons represent unique in-game items, characters, and assets players can collect, trade, and utilize within the gaming ecosystem. 

How does The Beacons incentivize gameplay and participation?

Through token rewards for achievements, staking rewards for holding NFTs, and participation in governance decisions, players are encouraged to play and participate in the game.

What is The Beacons’ mechanism for ensuring a fair and balanced environment for gameplay?

The mechanisms implemented to ensure fair gameplay and fun experiences within the project include randomized algorithms, smart contract fairness audits, and community feedback loops.

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