Ascenders Releases Its First Free-To-Play Demo With a 1 Million $AGC Prize Pool

Ascenders, the upcoming sci-fantasy open-world action RPG game powered by Avalanche blockchain made a big announcement on March 22, 2022 during the Avalanche Summit. Jackson Poon, CEO of Legendary Foundry Limited annonced the immediate release of their first free-to-play combat challenge with a 1 million $AGC tokens for grabs.

Ascenders is an open-world story-driven game with a decentralized player-driven economy to deliver a new ARPG (Action Role-playing Game) experience. The game is powered by Avalanche blockchain and features a dual token economy and NFTs created by players. The Ascenders ecosystem consists of various opportunities for competition and trade. Players can choose from various play-to-earn roles and specialize in them with its challenges and resources.

In Ascender, you can explore new dungeons, discover resources, build their land and engage in combat. The game is based on a player-driven economy where players have full control over the supply and demand of resources inside the game.

The game story takes you through two worlds, namely Overworld and Dungeons.

• Overworld: The Overworld contains different terrains with its features, different challenges, resources, and enemies. Players can explore the Overworld for resources that can be used to mint NFT items. Certain areas demarcated in the Overworld map indicate NFTs that allow landowners to create buildings visible to other players.
• Dungeons: The Dungeons serve as periodic tournaments that allow players to compete on PvEvP leaderboards for rare and valuable resources. Players can explore deep dungeons to get rewards that can be used to mint NFT items. The dungeons are filled with enemies, and they need clearing out before it is safe for the community to begin construction. Players have to use their combat skills here to obtain rich rewards.

Game Economy

The Ascenders game focuses on decentralization and players’ lanes. So, all functional NFT items such as equipment, armor, resources are minted by players at buildings created by players who own their land. The resources have also been divided among the “economic lanes.” Some types of resources can be found only in dungeons, whereas some can be found only in the Overworld.

Players can specialize in dungeon farming or trade with other players to acquire resources. This system creates opportunities for trading inside the game that strengthens the game economy. This gives freedom for players to choose whether they want to fight, explore or build.

Player Lanes

As the Ascender economy is divided into economic lanes, each lane has its features such as gameplay, resources, and rewards. There are three lanes Explorer Lane, Fighter Lane, and Builder Lane.

• Explorer Lane: The resources players collect in this lane can only be found in the Overworld. This lane is for players who enjoy farming, collecting, and steady progress. Players can harvest resources from the Overworld or collect rewards…