Introduction

My Neighbor Alice is a multiplayer builder game, where anyone can buy and own virtual islands, collect and build exciting items and meet new friends. Inspired by successful games, such as Animal Crossing, the game combines the best of the two worlds- a fun narrative for regular players who want to enjoy the gameplay experience as well as an ecosystem for players who want to collect and trade NFTs, even if they have no idea what an NFT is.

My Neighbor Alice is not just a game for blockchain players. But it’s a game that could introduce blockchain to millions of players.

The game is aimed at the diverse gaming community which can get easily onboarded from regular platforms. The main line of comparison lies within the traditional gaming market with the same players being targeted as the development team's audience. My Neighbor Alice is innovating a new unobtrusive way of connecting an exciting game narrative to blockchain features. My Neighbor Alice has the potential to attract millions of gamers, and an associated greater opportunity for revenues. The game is designed in a way to allow players to “own the game” by exercising power over the platform. Players also enjoy the democratic governance model based on a liquid democracy and real-world inspiration rules over a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization).

My Neighbor Alice is the brainchild of Antler Interactive, an interactive game studio known for its gaming innovations. Being a pioneer in VR gaming, the studio is experimenting with Augmented Reality (AR) to bring gaming to a new qualitative level. In My Neighbor Alice Antler Interactive leverages the Chromia platform, enabling advanced blockchain and in-game DeFi features.

My Neighbor Alice has a first version that runs and plays well, and proves that the technology behind it works. The intent now is to fund this team as a new company, connected to a non-profit and foundation, developing My Neighbor Alice so it becomes a commercial success introducing millions of players to blockchain.

Game Overview

Welcome to the Alice world- a large island complex located in the Lummelunda archipelago. It is a place where animals and humans share space, make friends and work together. Anyone can join the neighborhood by buying a piece of land and performing various activities such as fishing, bug catching and beekeeping, among other things. Alice shares the archipelago with her friends- Björn the Bear, Beekeeper Bob, Ivan the Merchant and Shipwright José. By interacting with neighbors and helping Alice with her duties and daily activities, players earn a reward which can be exchanged for in-game items that they can use on their lands.

After buying a piece of land, players will be able to design and decorate their property to make it as unique and special as they want. For that, users can experiment with the landscape, use in-game assets, like NFTs, which are available in the form of vegetation, furniture, buildings or animals, perform daily activities and participate in competitions and quests to earn more rewards.

My Neighbor Alice is the first attempt to create a truly public application with an exciting plot that would attract first ordinary players, secondly blockchain enthusiasts and DeFi nerds. It has a light and intuitive interface with a variety of features to explore. In My Neighbor Alice, only you will decide on how much you want to be involved in the game's decentralised features and DeFi. Moreover, we designed the game in a way to make it “live forever” with a narrative that never becomes boring.

Business Objectives

My Neighbor Alice is not to be seen as a game for blockchain players. It is first a game for a large global audience of players in general. Absolutely no prior knowledge about cryptocurrencies is needed. Because of that, we compare mainly with the normal game market, and target the same players. A much bigger audience than previously seen in the field of blockchain gaming, and an associated larger opportunity for revenues.

Key game features

Marketplace

One of the game’s main features is a virtual marketplace where players can buy and sell their land and other in-game items, such as houses, fences, animals and plants, which will help them to decorate their land in their own creative way.

Lummelunda Archipelago

In the game, players could either purchase virtual plots from Alice or in the marketplace. There is a scarce supply of plots in the universe and each piece of land is represented in the form of NFT tokens. After the plot has been purchased, players can decorate it with various in-game items such as houses, lakes, decorations, animals, plants and other items that can be purchased additionally.

Lummelunda archipelago consists of six key islands:

1. Snowflake Island - Located on the northwestern edge of the Lummelunda archipelago, Snowflake island is a frosty wonderland filled with ice sculptures of mysterious origin. Fairy magic is found all around the place.

2. Medieval Plains - The Medieval Plains are anchored in an ancient time, with a landscape full of low vegetation and stonework. A great spot for your cows to graze. Did you know that Berta used to graze here?

3. Nature´s Rest - is a dense forest with lush vegetation. Glowing lights fall from the trees and create a moody atmosphere. Nature’s rest also happens to be Bear’s (you know, the friendly bear with the yellow hat) birthplace.

4. Lummestad (The Town) - The small but bustling town of the Lummelunda archipelago is full of shops and is the center point of many of the events in the game. The Town is located in the middle of the archipelago. This is the place where players will get to meet and interact with each other, buy and sell items and have fun together.

5. Sandy Coast - Made famous by local celebrities like Dr. Hilton, Sandy Coast resembles the Maldives. As the name suggests, the Sandy Coast is mostly composed of sand and includes multiple islands. This is the obvious destination for any beach dweller. Fancy a life on the beach, then this is the place for you!

6. Submerged Islands - The rich waters of the Submerged Islands are stalked by seafaring pirates, seeking the treasures and mysteries beneath the waves — or hunting those brave enough to try and get there first! Think shipwrecks, chests and driftwood. Something for the more adventurous minded perhaps? Ahoy there neighbor!

Avatars

Each player is represented by an avatar in the game, and players could interact with others through the avatar. Players could also modify the avatar by installing different assets to it.

In-game Assets

There are in-game assets that can be deployed into the game and they can be bought on the marketplace. Among them- houses, animals, veggies, decorations or cosmetic items for the player's avatar. In addition, platform users can create assets using the NFT creator and monetize their design skills! DeFi capabilities will be added to the in-game assets.

Progression system

My Neighbor Alice will have a dynamic progression system that rewards players as good citizens. Players will progress through the game by completing fun quests, favours and other activities.

Shared Quests and Community events

One of their key values in the game is to create the atmosphere of friendship and common interests. The ultimate purpose in My Neighbor Alice is to create an alternative beautiful world where anyone can play, find friends and work together. Thus, My Neighbor Alice will enable various possibilities for players to work on a shared goal and join resources to complete fun activities. The game will also have community-created events where players will be able to create and participate in activities.

Blockchain Features

Game currency, The ALICE token

ALICE token is the native currency in the game, as well as mirrored as an ERC20 token. It allows token holders to play, invest and also be part of the game.

There is a fixed supply of ALICE tokens. There are several utilities of the token:

1. In-game currency: ALICE could be used in the marketplace for purchasing assets and also special skill sets in the game (e.g. Fertilizers)

2. User designed revenue models: for land and assets in the game, owners could design rentals and visitor fees features. For example, users could charge for players that want to visit the museum on the island;

3. Special game content (DLC): certain quests and special features (opening a store) are only available to ALICE holders that stake the tokens for a fixed amount of time

4. Social feature: send ALICE tokens in the chats with neighbors; present assets to visitors; exchange NFT assets;

5. Play to earn: to encourage players to contribute to the game and to maintain traction, there will be experience points awarded for quests completed. Those could be exchanged into in-game assets that could be transacted.

ERC-20 compatibility

The Chromia blockchain can also function as a Layer Two to other blockchains, and has features for moving tokens between for example Ethereum and Chromia. An example of this is the Hedget decentralized options trading platform. There will be a mechanism to move the ALICE token back and forth between the Chromia and the Ethereum network, and thus users are able to use exchanges on ethereum to ensure liquidity.

Game Assets

In gaming, the element of scarcity and collectible items have been around since even before computers. Also in My Neighbor Alice, there will be limited editions, scarce items. In addition to items designed by the game developers, there will be user-generated content. The openness of blockchain provides information about how many items exist in total, how large is a limited edition, etc. The additional openness of My Neighbor Alice's novel “decentralized assets” explained below improves on this further, as you can openly inspect similarity of items.

Scarcity in My Neighbor Alice exists on different levels:

• Fixed supply of land

• Limited editions of items

• Scarcity limits of user-generated content. Users acquire rights to generate items, these rights stipulate the max number of copies, thus enforcing scarcity requirements.

Game Economy

The third area in the project is the economic infrastructure. “Property/Plot” auctioning, asset trading, token transactions.

Backend: Chromia

Gaming, marketplace and auction logic is done on the Chromia blockchain

Frontend: Web and Unity

The frontend to marketplaces and auctions can be done as a web application embedded into the game. Parts of the UX might also be done directly in Unity.

Integrations:

ERC20 and Steam The ALICE token will be transferable between ERC20 and native Chromia token. This bridge is developed by Chromia outside of this project.

ALICE Token

ALICE token is the native currency in the game. It allows token holders to play, invest and also be part of the game. There is a fixed supply of ALICE tokens.

Staking Yield and Earnings

One of our strategic visions within My Neighbor Alice is to create monetary incentives for the most committed and motivated players.

Staking yield

Based on our staking and reward projections, we will allocate a fair amount of tokens on staking rewards. This will incentivize stakers to hold their tokens during the early stage of the game development while some significant game features will still be under development. Staking will progressively decrease as new features will be released.

NFT collateral

In order to provide more liquidity to the collectors in My Neighbor Alice, the development team designed collateral-filled NFTs, so that users could not only enjoy a monthly interest on their NFT holdings but also have access to instant liquidity when they want to liquidate the NFT.

When a user buys NFT from the system, a percentage of the purchase price might go into a collateral pool associated with NFT. User then has an option to sell it back to the system (i.e. destroy the NFT) for the price equivalent to the locked collateral (or a percentage of it). This guarantees that the value of NFT cannot go below a certain threshold. This feature will also allow a user to take a loan using NFT as a collateral.

Renting NFTs

NFT:s, including land, can be rented to other players. The smart contract will make sure that the borrower cannot resell or destroy the object, and makes sure that object returns to the owner when the rent period ends.

Tracking ALICE