Behind the scenes of the new metaverse game Cross The Ages 

As the squad down the caller metaverse crippled Cross The Ages (CTA) prepares for the upcoming release, CEO and co-founder Sami Chlagou explained the project’s innovative approach–poised to marque waves successful the GameFi market.

Revealing immoderate of the compelling facts astir the 16-month-long development, Chlagou broke down however CTA aims to supply a deeper playing acquisition based connected strategical choices progressive with collecting cards–engaging players agelong term.

Free-to-play meets play-to-earn

“Currently, the main inclination is to migrate everything to the metaverse, but CTA is trying to bash the opposite,” explained Chlagou, outlining the project’s unsocial attack that draws upon the nostalgia of trading cards.

These tangible collectibles volition let players to bring a portion of the metaverse backmost to the carnal reality, portion astatine the aforesaid time, with their instauration into the play-to-earn equation, CTA volition span the spread betwixt gaming and crypto, helium added.

With this, CTA is ushering successful a wholly caller format of the game, wherever players tin harvester aged and caller gaming habits, explained Chlagou, noting that the state interest for creating a paper is going to beryllium $1.

Tree Monster by Brian Valeza © Cross The Ages

The debased introduction obstruction is different cardinal constituent that sets CTA isolated from different blockchain games connected the market–the crippled is escaped to play, and those that privation to entree play-to-earn functionality tin bash truthful for arsenic small arsenic $10 oregon $20.

By combining the free-to-play and play-to-earn model, CTA is going to revolutionize the GameFi sector, argued Chlagou, not hiding his ambition for the crippled to thrust the wide adoption of blockchain technology.

With this successful mind, helium besides revealed immoderate of the main reasons down the team’s determination to launch connected Polygon. 

“First of all, it was important for america to take a concatenation that would let america to make a crippled wherever the state interest volition ne'er transcend $1,” helium explained, noting this was 1 of the prerequisites considering the wide adoption goals acceptable for the CTA. 

Reachable method enactment was different important element, which, according to Chlagou, leveraged creaseless practice and communication–both progressively important erstwhile gathering for the agelong haul.   

“Third, with Polygon we are intelligibly capable to physique for the multi-chain future,” helium concluded, adding the EVM compatibility arsenic 1 of the cardinal factors to the list.

Iris by Dzydar © Cross The Ages

Physical cards conscionable NFTs

In caller years, the institution down the task acquired 5 studios–in Hungary, France, England, Japan, and Brazil, said Chlagou, who launched his archetypal concern for trading collectible cards astatine the property of 24. 

Amongst others, Chlagou, who worked arsenic a shaper successful the audiovisual assemblage for the past years, besides founded the archetypal backstage e-commerce level for video games, Rushongame.com, and Pixelheart, a steadfast and distributor of retrogaming and constricted variation video games.

He admitted to getting into trading paper games arsenic a nine-year-old joining the Magic The Gathering bandwagon backmost successful 1993, and believes that CTA’s determination to see this retro facet volition entreaty to each breeds of gamers.

“We are not conscionable gathering a game, we are gathering a full universe,” said Chlagou, noting that a superstar radical of 14 writers created a compelling storyline for the adjacent 10 years.

Outlined successful 7 books, the communicative combines elements of some Fantasy and Sci-Fi, portion flirting with almighty metaphors that are evoking philosophical reflection connected existent enlargement into the virtual realm.

Bird by Jesus Conde © Cross The Ages

The awesome squad of 134 radical presently moving connected the task includes a immense array of illustrators, who are wrapping up the archetypal postulation of much than 365 collectible cards with antithetic scarcity and unsocial traits.

The imagination squad of artists comes from projects specified arsenic Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Witcher, Lord of the Rings, to sanction a few.

Preparing for the release

The task that was initially developed successful the shadows, presently enjoys the backing of aggregate VCs, revealed the team.

Meanwhile, CTA’s Instagram, Discord, Twitter and Telegram channels are increasing rapidly. 

“We presently person a beardown assemblage of 300.000 people, but our ngo is to scope a cardinal by March 22,” said Chlagou, adding that the publication already crossed 60.000 downloads.

The chapters which are presently disposable successful six antithetic languages, including French, English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, and Polish, are released weekly–enabling prospective players to recognize the crippled much intimately earlier the release. 

Characters are developed based connected the enneagram types–another facet that makes the communicative timeless and much relatable. 

Demon by Felix Donadio © Cross The Ages

“We volition person the demo mentation acceptable by the extremity of February,” said Chlagou, noting that aboriginal entree is planned for the extremity of April, opening of May. 

According to him, “the cardinal of occurrence with this benignant of task is based connected 1 thing–the IP.” 

“If you person this, you person perfectly everything,“ argued Chlagou, pointing retired the value of gathering connected a well-defined and proactive IP strategy.

According to the team, a movie merchandise is envisioned arsenic a portion of the logical progression and could beryllium expected 3 years pursuing the crippled launch.

The squad is besides not lagging down with plans for 3D immersive VR, which are, though inactive mostly contingent connected technological and hardware improvements, connected the roadmap for 2023 and 2024.