Author: Zen, PANews
As AI Agent narratives gain momentum, many projects in the gaming sector are also joining the fray. Recently, Illuvium announced a partnership with Virtuals Protocol, stating that it will utilize Virtuals' AI technology and its G.A.M.E LLM framework to provide dynamic and intelligent behavior for NPCs, enhancing immersion for players. The auto-chess game Planet Mojo has introduced AI Agent Mr. WWA (Winston Wylde Alexander), with the WWA token serving as a platform reward token, and plans to launch an AI Agent game.
However, before these well-known blockchain games entered the market, a blockchain game had already taken the lead in the AI agent field with its game character 'Freya' and recently made it to Binance Alpha.
Starfall Chronicles: The game world where Freya was born
Starfall Chronicles is an AI-driven roguelike fantasy-style RPG game developed by Rosentica. The project aims to create a combat system rich in strategy and customizable deep character creation, set in a dynamic and ever-changing universe driven by autonomous AI partners and NPCs. The alpha version of Starfall Chronicles is set to release in November 2024, with a beta version planned for January 2025. According to an announcement by Immutable last December, Starfall Chronicles will also launch on that platform.
The game's currently showcased excellent art and visual design is largely attributable to Chief Artist Sangsoo Jeong, a renowned Korean concept artist and illustrator who has collaborated multiple times with Riot Games on League of Legends, creating numerous skin artworks.
Additionally, Rosentica hopes to attract players through rich storylines and profound, complex game characters, having currently released nine characters, including Freya, Vera, and Lionheart. Players can obtain characters through recruitment, with permanent recruitment divided into six types: ordinary, elite, legendary, and knight, warrior, ranger, along with limited-time recruitment and temporary recruitment options.
Starfall Chronicles also employs the Fateweaver Gacha system, ensuring that every character recruited by players possesses random skills and attributes, guaranteeing the uniqueness of each individual. To enhance player customization capabilities, Rosentica has developed a complex talent tree system, allowing players to deeply customize their characters by configuring different skills according to their personal playstyle and preferences. Additionally, each character has a random attribute growth level ranging from C to SS, including randomly assigned constellations.
Game mechanics of Starfall Chronicles
In the game, when a battle begins, both sides' mercenaries will be deployed according to the grid formation set by players before the battle. Battles are conducted in turns and orders. Each turn represents a complete cycle, during which all surviving mercenaries will have one opportunity to act, taking action in the order of their speed attributes, with faster units acting first. When all mercenaries on one side are completely eliminated, the battle ends. In the currently open version, only CLASH (single-player PVP mode) is available, with details on tournaments (multiplayer PVP mode) and sailing mode to be disclosed before beta testing.
The aforementioned gameplay does not offer much novelty and has little connection with the currently popular AI agents. However, in the recently disclosed Infinity 7 mode, the project team introduced that each of the nine main characters will be intelligent, adaptive AI agents capable of evolving based on player interactions and preferences. These characters are designed to be truly vibrant, with personalities, behaviors, and decision-making processes that can respond organically to player actions.
It is worth mentioning that among the nine main characters, only $Freya will be tokenized and applied to functions not limited to in-game utilities. In Infinity 7, players can spend $Freya to permanently alter their personalities, preferences, dislikes, and even core worldviews to align with their likes and influence their character in the unfolding story. Since there are no prewritten events, players can freely choose their goals and actions, with the entire story dynamically changing based on player choices, all generated by a procedural narrative engine and adaptive behavior simulation system.
$Freya token's functionality and staking mechanism
$Freya can not only be used for in-game consumption but also includes functionality for participating in governance voting, accessing the rarest features, and for staking and profit distribution. According to DexScreener data, as of the morning of January 10, the market capitalization of $Freya is approximately $15.6 million.
As mentioned above, the most common use of the $Freya token in the game is for personalizing character design. To avoid the impact of the $Freya token market price volatility on players' consumption experience, Starfall Chronicles has fixed the in-game $Freya consumption price to an amount equivalent to USD, ensuring players do not have to worry about market fluctuations, resulting in a more stable and intuitive consumption experience.
Additionally, re-extracting a character's particular skill and enhancing a character's random attribute growth ranking are among the rarest features in the game, which cannot be obtained through lottery, upgrades, or battle tickets but can only be unlocked using the $Freya token.
In terms of community governance, the project team plans to introduce a sunflower roundtable meeting, allowing players to decide the future direction of the game through proposals and voting. Submitting proposals and voting both require holding a certain amount of $Freya, allowing players to vote on adjustments to skills, character reworks, game mechanics changes related to game modes, story direction, and feature design, as well as changes to game systems, difficulty, rewards, etc.
$Freya adopts a deflationary economic model, with 20% of each token transaction permanently destroyed, thereby reducing the total supply. The remaining $Freya will be redistributed to token holders based on their staking amounts. $Freya holders can stake their tokens in <Stardust Gate> to receive dividends from all in-game consumption of $Freya.
Through these mechanisms, holders of the $Freya token can benefit not only from the appreciation of the token's value but also share profits from the game's success and revenue, becoming indirect investors and beneficiaries of dividends in (Starfall Chronicles).
