The Vault Room
Buried on Kanbar, lies a vault room that the isolationists had secured for storing some of their rare possesions and cryptocurrency. The vault is hidden somewhere on the planet but over the centuries, the location has been lost. Rumors speak of a hidden chamber that contains a map to the location where the vault room is located, but to enter the chamber, you need a special access card.
While only 5 of these ultra rare special access cards will be in the game, anyone who puchased 1 million tokens will get the ultra rare access card. Only 100 of these cards exist and after the token sale, the remaining cards will be burned, lost forever. The origin card is one of five in a limited gold series of ultra rare blockchain cards. The first card is being made exclusivly to token sale buyers that purchased 1 million or more tokens between June 26th and July 31st.
The Origin Card
Long ago on planet Kanbar, a dreadnaught deep space cruiser landed to secure the planet for colonization. Mechs were dispatched to start constructing bases, roads, and living quarters for the colonists. A paradise was built for the first settlers from Earth on a habitable exoplanet. However, centuries later, the first report of mechs breaking down and turning on the colonists started to flood in from around the planet. Now, only dust and ancient technology remains scattered on the surface of the planet. The Age of Rust has its origins cemented into the foundation of the dry, cracked and lonely planetscape.
What is Age of Rust?
Age of Rust is a dark sci-fi role playing adventure game in an intergalactic dystopian universe. At its heart is an adventure and a mystery that rewards players with hidden treasures. The Age of Rust universe is an open game, a place where you can be as good or as evil as you want to be. You can seek lost treasures and solve puzzles, help other players or betray them for your own personal gain, or wander around the universe and explore. The game takes place in the distant future (~2500 years from now) where space travel is common. There's exoplanet mining, colonies, privateers, rogue mechs, and bounty hunters. A lot of the technology has failed and is no longer well understood due to a large pandemic that all but nearly wiped out humanity. As a result, advancements in technology, science, and culture stopped, the "Age of Rust" is where things are now breaking down, in what is now "present day" in the game. Humanity is trying to get a new foothold and rebuild society, but there's quite a bit of lawlessness to contend with.
Not a “pay to win game” - Luck, brains, and experience is the only true way to survive in the 43rd century. While some upgrades can ease the suffering, it can’t win the game for you. The game is not designed to force you to buy things in order to continue. You can buy some cool and fun things in the game, but they're not required to win. You have to use strategy to outplay others skill to solve puzzles. You can't buy the solutions to the puzzles, and those you have to figure out yourself.
RustChain Cards offer players the ability to collect, trade, and use cards in the game. Some cards will available for free in the game as rewards for solving puzzles or other achievements. Players don't have to transfer your cards to the game, they just verify their wallet and the game can tell which cards and how many cards players have. These cards give players the ability to enhance their character (add bonuses like additional health, armor, damage, etc) and also grant access to special areas in the game. For example, if players have the "Kepler Canyon" card in their counterparty wallet, it will allow players visit Kepler Canyon in the game. Quantity of cards will also unlock and give game modifiers too; as an example, if a player has qty 10 of the "MD100 Pulse Rifle" card, an additional 10 damage would be applied.
Partnership with Spells of Genesis
We’ve partnered with Spells of Genesis so that any token purchases will get a 5% bonus if a buyer has a Spells of Genesis card. We also plan to collaborate in the future so that our game (Age of Rust) will support Spells of Genesis cards.
http://spellsofgenesis.tumblr.com/post/162621931665/eds-partners-with-spacepirateio
Rustbits
There are a total of 100M Rustbits that have been created in CounterParty in the Bitcoin blockchain. Out of those 100M tokens, 70M have been set aside in a token sale offering to help crowdfund development of Age of Rust and other games that will use Rustbits. The sale will end on July 31st or when all the Rustbits are sold. Rustbits can be used to either purchase blockchain cards for use in the game, traded, sold, or used in a variety of other in-game and social applications. Any remaining Rustbits after the token sale will be burned to establish rarity as blockchain-based asset. Following the sale of Rustbits, another series of tokens will be released as game card assets for the game, Age of Rust. These game assets will only be sold for Rustbits initially and the first set of cards for the game will be in a limited amount, locked, and any unsold card tokens will be burned after the sale. To date, we have sold 19 million tokens and have raised over 135 btc.
Rustchain Cards
RustChain Cards offer players the ability to collect, trade, and use cards in the game. These cards will also be on the blockchain as a limited series of digital tokens to trade outside the game. Cards can used in the game to award players special items and capabilities in the game. Some cards will available for free in the game as rewards for solving puzzles or other achievements.
Alpha version
In April 2017, we released the early alpha version of the game, which had the majority of the gameplay as a text based adventure. The prologue, is a small playable demo, which is really more of a pre-alpha release of Age of Rust. It's meant to tell a small story leading up to the events of where things start in the full release of the game.There are a few areas to explore and some puzzles to solve as well, plus a little bit of combat thrown in for good measure. We wanted to give players something to explore, and a mystery to solve while the rest of the game is in development. A few players have finished the prologue in about 20 hours of game-play. We also had two bitcoin prizes in the game for solving two puzzles, each puzzle had a 0.1 btc prize in the game that players could claim. By June we had 600 registered players and competing for the prizes. A player solved both of the complex puzzles and won both prizes and claimed the 0.2btc rewards. The alpha version allowed us to test a few things with game dynamics, puzzle difficulty, player engagement, and how players might use cryptocurrency in a role-playing game setting. Based on the gameplay and testing, we have put the metrics and player feedback towards a beta version that will be released later in 2017. The beta version will be more graphical with a soundtrack and other enhancements, such as the cards (both our own cards and some Spells of Genesis cards).
Links
https://steemit.com/steemit/@cloverme/game-art-for-age-of-rust-a-blockchain-asset-sci-fi-adventure-game
Slack: https://spacepirate.herokuapp.com/
Token Sale Website: https://spacepirate.io/ico
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpacePirate_io
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spacepirate.io
Game Website: https://spacepirate.io/
Whitepaper: https://spacepirate.io/ico/rustbits-whitepaper.pdf
Announcement thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1895425.0
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