Introducing Blockstars
Welcome to Blockstars!
Blockstars is a deeply social, deeply immersive and deeply engaging music management simulation game on the Solana blockchain.
Gameplay centers around players putting together Bands of musicians called Blockstars, who write, record & release Singles, package their greatest hits into Albums, go Busking & Gigging to earn extra income, put in the time & effort to improve their skills and ultimately work towards the goal of earning enough money and other in-game resources to start & upgrade their own Record Label — which in turn unlocks a whole new game loop in which players sign up, nurture & manage the next generation of Blockstar talent.
Gameplay is based on the real-world passage of time, centered around the 24-hour clock. The game is designed & balanced to allow both experienced players as well as complete beginners to compete for spots on the leaderboards, based on a variety of factors that enables competition across many varied play styles (so yes, you can of course still min-max your way to a top spot on one of the leaderboards if that’s your jam, but there will be multiple different ways to compete, win & earn).
Winners of Limited-Time Events across various categories of competition earn rewards in the form of $ROCK, the game’s main SPL token. $ROCK is used for major game actions (such as minting, buying & selling Blockstars and other in-game NFT assets, as well as determining governance structure), and is being designed to be resilient to inflationary pressures that some other Play-to-Earn games have experienced through careless economy design. There is a second, in-game currency called $ROLL that is used day-to-day for basic game actions.
Blockstars is being designed from the ground up to embrace the best of what blockchain technologies enable for gaming: true Play-to-Earn, true ownership of in-game assets, and a true ownership stake in the future Roadmap of Blockstars.
What are Blockstars?
Each Blockstar is a truly unique individual, with a unique personality (modeled on the Myers-Briggs framework), a unique skill set and an (initially) unknown Potential Ability, which is unlocked, discovered & upgraded through gameplay. The various personality types determine not just how skilled that particular Blockstar can be — but they also determine how compatible that individual Blockstar is with every other Blockstar in the ecosystem, and therefore how good their Chemistry is going to be as members of the same band.
Each Blockstar is player-owned as a unique NFT on the Solana blockchain, and is minted with a random, programmatic, pre-determined starting set of characteristics of varying degrees of rarity. However, unlike most other programmatically-generated NFT drops that we have all become so familiar with, Blockstars don’t just have varying degrees of cosmetic rarity.
Blockstars also incorporate rarity into multiple other facets, which have an impact on gameplay as well as how “useful” a given Blockstar will be.
What does it mean to own a Blockstar?
Every Blockstar is provably unique, with a unique combination of visuals, musical skills and personality traits, each with varying degrees of rarity, that uniquely influence gameplay.
All owners of Blockstars are given an asset pack that includes both the full 3D model as well as an image optimized for use as your social media profile picture. The 3D model is yours to use as your avatar across the metaverse — it includes high-res, lossless renders and T-pose .fbx files that you can animate.
All owners of Blockstars also get access to the owners-only club on our Discord server.
Join us!
This is just a teaser of what we are up to! If you are intrigued by Blockstars, be sure to read much, much more about the game design, tokenomics and development roadmap in our whitepaper, come and chat with other community members in our Discord and follow us on Twitter. We will also be posting news about upcoming features, roadmap progress & important events regularly right here, on our blog.
Niko Vuori | Founder & CEO | Blockstars
