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May had been one of the craziest months in the Solana NFT Space with Communi3 being the project which had given the biggest floor among the newly minted projects. The volume was also very healthy during these hyped mints but after this new rate race to earn more profits at the cost of hurting the project during their mint began, we saw a sense of rejection in the post-mint volume. However, the volume has been stabilized in the lower 6 figures for quite some time and great teams are getting a good share of it.
Like May, June will also witness the launch of some pretty strong projects and the glimpse of that can be seen on the 1st day of the month itself with 2 strong projects launching on the same day and we are going to talk about one of them in this article.
Galactic Goons is an NFT-based PvP-to-Earn gaming hub powered by Solana and Unreal Engine 5.
The mint details of the project are as follows:
Supply: 7500
Cost: 1.5
Time: 3 pm UTC
Launchpad: Fractal
Since it's a PvP-to-Earn game, let us first look at its
GAME MECHANICS
Galactic Goons will be an open-world 3-D metaverse where gamers can meet with their unique avatars to socialise, access the Armoury, view the Hall of Fame, trade on the Galactic Marketplace and compete in, the PVP-to-Earn franchise, the Galactic Games.
The game will cater to 4 different types of gaming audiences based on their liking of what games they like the most playing.
There will be 4 different Arenas,
Arena 1: Shooting
Arena 2: Combat
Arena 3: Racing
Arena 4: Arcade
As I said, there won’t be just 1 game but a series of competitive PvP games with the first PvP game being a small map shooter with 2–10 player lobbies and team-based matchmaking.
Since it's a P2E game the next important thing which comes to mind is the token itself.
TOKENOMICS
The name of the in house utility token of the project is $GOONS. There are multiple utilities tied to the token:
In the future as the game develops there will be launches of weapons, cars and other equipment within the game which can be purchased only through $GOONS via the in-game marketplace of the game. Some of these types of equipment will become mandatory for the users to have to complete missions.
Apart from the Galactic Armoury, there will be a launch of real estate properties within the game which can be used by other projects and companies to advertise their products, showcase their NFTs in galleries, etc. The same can be purchased only with the help of the utility token $GOONS via both the secondary and the in-game marketplace.
To earn $GOONS, the holder needs to stake their genesis collection, the mechanism of which will be launched shortly after the mint of the project.
ROADMAP
The team has mentioned a blueprint on how things will move after the mint of the project concludes…
The main catalyst after the mint of the project will be the IDO launch of the utility token $GOONS. During this phase, the team will also work on launching the trailer of how the game will look and a playable demo of the game as well.
Phase 4 of the roadmap is packed with some major catalysts with the launch of the NFT Staking platform being the first priority before the launch of the full game.
Apart from this, the launch of the Social Hub and Metaverse Real Estate will also take place in this phase of the Roadmap only.
In the roadmap, the team has also mentioned about the launch of their second collection namely “Genesis Safehouse”.
Genesis Safehouse will be a customizable personal space with a supply of 7500 NFTs. This will work as a private gaming Suite which will come as a staking multiplier of the PFP collection.
ENGAGEMENT
This is one of the strongest points of the project. The project launched its first looks via Twitter in mid-Feb and till now they have around 60,000 followers with around 50 mutual followers between us.
The sentiment towards the project has been quite positive throughout and I haven't seen any major or minor fud associated with them.
The discord has around 22,000 members and a pretty active community. They are clocking an average engagement of over 1000 reactions per post as well.
To conclude I would say, I liked the first looks of the games which have been shared by the team in their sneak peeks.
Talking about the team, the fact that I liked the most is that they haven’t rushed their mint and have been here for almost a quarter which is 4 times the average time spent by some projects before the launch. The owners are doxxed as well and are launching on a reputable launchpad as well.
Although I do not a lot about the founder, what I know is they have 2 great and reputable Moderators in this space (Hadz and Zach) which again gives me confidence in the team.
Apart from that, this is going to be a refreshing launch as all the projects that launched lately were targeting the same thing. And as I mentioned about the launchpads listing the projects before the mint gets over, the team of the galactic team has announced a solution to that problem as well, where the minters won’t get the actual NFT but rather a pass which will have no value. Later the minters will get the NFTs airdropped to their wallets.
One thing to take note of is that since it is a play-to-earn gaming project, with the game not launching in a month or something, this might not be a good quick flip as some investors target.
I would recommend going through the roadmap and analysing the demand during the mint before you decide to mint or not.
I would rate the project 3.5/5 based on the in-game looks and the roadmap.
As always DYOR.
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