Stepn Creator’s Subsequent Recreation Is a Social MMO Referred to as Fuel Hero

The group behind move-to-earn sport Stepn is stepping additional into sport growth.

Discover Satoshi Lab (FSL), the crypto startup that created Stepn, NFT market MOOAR, and decentralized buying and selling platform DOOAR, has introduced plans to launch a massively multiplayer on-line sport (MMO) referred to as Fuel Hero that will likely be playable through net browsers and cellphones.

Whereas little has been revealed in regards to the upcoming sport, which is slated to launch later this yr, its identify doesn’t confer with the “gasoline” identified amongst crypto merchants—which refers to community transactions charges or “gasoline charges” that energy crypto networks like Ethereum.

“The way in which play is structured in our MMO type of fashion in a [player-vs-player (PVP)] setting within the sport itself is that it depends on social rules,” Discover Satoshi Lab COO Shiti Manghani informed Decrypt.

Fuel Hero will likely be a social sport through which gamers are incentivized to work together with one another due to perks like “energy, fame, [and] cash,” Manghani added. She sees these parts as essential for sport growth from a psychological perspective, and added that FSL is placing particular emphasis on refining the sport’s consumer expertise (UX) and consumer interface (UI).

“I feel it’s widespread information that crypto UX/UI at the moment suffers,” Manghani mentioned.

In relation to sport lore, Manghani revealed that Fuel Hero will happen within the yr 2084, after a rogue AI’s conduct results in a nuclear strike. In response, the United Nations establishes Operation Spark and the “Fuel Heroes” come into fruition. The “gasoline” right here refers back to the pure gasoline that powers the cloning labs within the sport’s sci-fi world, Manghani mentioned.

A primary screenshot from the sport seen above suggests potential fight and technique parts, but it surely’s nonetheless unclear how these items all match collectively within the expertise. Fuel Hero is at the moment in growth and can use Stepn’s GMT as its token at launch, in addition to provide its personal market and participant voting alternatives for decentralized decision-making in-game. 

Fuel Hero is a big step for FSL right into a extra artistic, immersive gaming route. Not like the movement-driven Stepn—which rewards customers with tokens and has a easy premise, no sport characters, and no lore—Fuel Hero has plans for a giant, sci-fi world and sport lore that expands past the scope of the sport itself into comedian books.

FSL plans to regularly launch the sport’s plans over seven successive white papers. Till September 9, FSL will run a “Form the Legends, Form the Glory” contest, letting folks submit character designs for an opportunity to win a share of the upcoming Fuel Hero Genesis Hero NFT assortment’s secondary sale royalty, an FSL t-shirt, and a portion of a roughly 2 million GMT prize pool.