Comparison of the internal test progress of 3 blockchain AAA games: Bigtime, Illuvium, and Parallel

Recently, several large-scale blockchain games have successively launched internal testing. This article will introduce and compare three games: Bigtime, Illuvium, and Parallel, as well as their current internal testing status.

Bigtime

Bigtime is a AAA game that combines action fighting, NFT collection, and cross-historical multiplayer cooperative RPG adventures, founded by Decentraland co-founder Ari, with a development team from franchises such as Call of Duty, League of Legends, and Fortnite. In May 2021, Big Time Studios announced the completion of a $21 million funding round. The team is also developing the Web3 game asset trading platform Openloot.

Big Time Studio publicly sold in-game assets Space NFT twice, at the end of 2021 and in March 2022, totaling 60,000, accounting for 10% of the total. The remaining SPACE NFTs will be dropped as loot, with the drop period continuing for several years. The official sale of Space NFTs generated 70 million dollars.

In addition, the official sale of the VIP pass for early access, movie moment NFTs, exclusive high-concept art, and the "Postcards from Time and Space" mystery box series generated over ten million dollars in revenue.

Bigtime started its closed beta on April 19, 2022, and the game is available on PC. Holding a VIP pass allows participation in the closed beta, during which players have a chance to obtain rare NFTs, which can be traded on the Openloot marketplace. According to community feedback, lucky players can recover their investment immediately after obtaining super rare NFTs during gameplay.

The internal test mode for the game will be phased entry. Players holding a Gold Pass will enter the internal test first, followed by Silver Pass players after five weeks, Emerald Pass players after eight weeks, and Ruby players on July 14, 2022. The earlier players enter the internal test, the higher the drop rate for rare NFTs during the game, and some Space NFTs will also drop in-game.

In addition to various decorative and utility NFTs within the game ecosystem, an in-game token called TIME will be launched at the end of the early access phase. This token is only available within the game and can only be generated through game battles, quests, and dungeons. No investors or employees can receive grants or purchase TIME tokens, nor are there any private placements or reservations. Its primary use is as a medium for value transfer within the game, including purchasing rare or exclusive NFT accessories, speeding up equipment crafting time, and repairing damaged and consumed items.

The token output specifically requires players to hold the Space NFT (, Time Wardens ), and Hourglass ( NFTs. The Time Wardens NFT needs to be deployed in the Space, and then the Hourglass NFT must be charged to drop tokens during gameplay. The sand in the hourglass will gradually deplete, and players need to use the Time Wardens and game tokens to recharge for continued use. The more Hourglasses operating simultaneously, the more game tokens will drop.

Bigtime started the airdrop event in February 2023, distributing gift blind boxes to eligible accounts every month, totaling 153,000 utility NFTs, including armory, forge, and time guardians. The airdrop rules are based on a point level system, divided into 5 levels. Players of the same level receive the same airdrop content. Points are composed of asset points and game points. The more Bigtime NFT assets a user account holds, the rarer and higher value they are, the higher the asset points earned. Users can earn game points by completing game instances. When the points meet the requirements, they can receive the airdrop. Now players can participate in the internal test by signing up to earn game points for a chance at the airdrop.

The Bigtime token has not yet launched on the secondary market, and there is a variety of NFT assets. These include armor, weapons, accessories, and mystery boxes. Here, we calculate based on the main NFT asset, Space NFT.

The floor prices for Space NFT rare small, medium, and large spaces are valued at 60 USD, 90 USD, and 348 USD respectively, with maximum supply totals of 168,000, 68,000, and 7,200. The epic small, medium, and large spaces are valued at 73 USD, 117 USD, and 398 USD respectively, with supply totals of 108,000, 63,000, and 9,000. The legendary small, medium, and large spaces are valued at 98 USD, 165 USD, and 500 USD respectively, with supply totals of 72,000, 36,000, and 12,000. The mythical small, medium, and large spaces are valued at 185 USD, 315 USD, and 1189 USD respectively, with supply totals of 26,400, 16,800, and 4,800. The sublime small, medium, and large spaces are valued at 719 USD, 1280 USD, and 2799 USD respectively, with supply totals of 6,000, 3,600, and 2,400. Its market value is 88.06 million USD.

Additionally, Openloot accepts debit and credit cards, wire transfers, and cryptocurrencies. This provides convenience for users who are unfamiliar with crypto assets and tools.

Currently, the users participating in the testing include early applicants, VIP pass holders, and more than twenty guilds. This includes YGG, Merit Circle, Avocado Guild, Loudgg, and Neo Tokyo, among others. According to data from third-party website query tools, the website traffic for Bigtime is increasing month by month, with 152,000 visits in January and an average visit duration of about 2 minutes, primarily from the United States and the Philippines.

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) Illuvium

In January 2021, Kieran Warwick and Aaron Warwick, brothers of Synthetix co-founder Kain Warwick, launched the blockchain game Illuvium. Illuvium is an immersive open-world RPG AAA game built on the Ethereum Layer 2 solution Immutable X.

Players customize their characters when starting the game and choose a companion drone as a follower. Then, players begin to explore the game's open world, collecting and battling Illuvials they encounter. Defeated Illuvials can be captured through shards and minted as NFTs. Each player has five key game mechanics or modes to participate in while playing: adventure mode, mining and harvesting, team building, fusion system, and battle arena. In these five modes, players can capture Illuvials, obtain higher-level Illuvials, and earn ETH tokens.

In March 2021, the Illuvium team secured $5 million in seed funding, led by Framework Ventures, with participation from IOSG Ventures, Delphi Digital, and others. In April, they raised $38 million by selling 1 million tokens through a Balancer LBP. In June 2022, they raised $72 million by selling 20,000 plots of land. According to official information, they plan to sell a total of 100,000 plots of land.

In March 2022, Illuvium launched the private beta of its auto-battler game Arena, and in December 2022, it began deploying the open-world treasure hunting game Overworld. Users can obtain access to the internal tests of Arena and Overworld through registration applications, reaching level 5 in the official Discord channel, and promoting on Twitter. On January 6, 2023, the Alpha 0 test of the land management mining game "Illuvium: Zero" was launched, and on February 21, the Alpha 1 test ( went live, but the official information has been postponed for the launch ). The testing of Illuvium: Zero is open to all landowners, and the game is available on Android, Windows, and MAC platforms.

Currently, Arena and Overworld are in a paused state, only Zero is open. The Alpha I test version of Illuvium Zero is the first opportunity for Illuvium landholders to experience land functions in the game, and it is also an opportunity for Illuvium to conduct large-scale testing, balancing, and adjustments for the game. During the Alpha version of Illuvium Zero, the revenue economy will not be online. Players can keep the blueprints obtained in Alpha, and Illuvium Land will only start generating income when Illuvium Zero is released together with the Illuvium public beta.

During the testing period, players can play Illuvium Zero on the free T0 land ###, which is not available during the Alpha testing period (, or participate in game profits after purchasing T1-5 land. Players use Fuel as currency in all games within the Illuvium ecosystem, which is interconnected in the Zero, Overworld, and Arena economic ecosystems.

Fuel is divided into three types: Crypton, Hyperion, and Solon, which serve various purposes in the Illuvium ecosystem. Specifically, Hyperion is used for healing fragments and capturing Illuvials, Solon is used for crafting weapons, armor, and other upgrades, while Crypton is used for traveling to different regions. Additionally, Fuel can also be used to construct advanced structures and upgrade these buildings in Illuvium Zero.

Although the relative value of Fuel will fluctuate over time due to market factors, all Fuel Sites on Illuvium land are equally rare. FUEL exists only as an in-game currency and cannot currently be transferred to another wallet or Land Plot. A Balancer pool will be launched later, at which point users can exchange it for ETH on IlluviDex.

Megacities in Illuvium ) allow adjacent plots that form a 2x2 or 3x3 square to be combined into a larger plot. The expected benefits of Megacities include: the ability to share landmark bonuses between plots, the ability to share resources between plots without transfer costs (, whether in time or resources ), and the ability to share supportive buildings like engineering labs, thereby increasing available space. Currently, Megacities are not available in the Illuvium game, and the specific launch time will be announced by the officials.

Illuvium has also launched a premium currency Credits( credit points), which can be used to perform special operations to enhance efficiency. Specifically, it can be used for event acceleration( such as building and factory demolition), purchasing additional builder slots( not available during the Alpha testing period). Players can obtain Credits in Illuvium Zero by removing plants in-game or completing objectives, as well as through in-game purchases. However, during the Alpha period, players cannot purchase points.

According to official information, Illuvium will launch the game Illuvium: Beyond on March 8 at 6 AM, during which players can compete to collect Illuvitar NFTs based on Illuvium's game characters. Illuvitar is a customizable NFT collection that includes illustrations of Illuvials with various accessories, backgrounds, and expressions. Illuvitar is divided into Base Layer and Base; the Illuvitar Base Layer consists of hand-drawn artworks designed for digital self-expression, while the Illuvitar Base can be personalized with thousands of different accessory combinations, each containing varying degrees of rarity. This rarity is directly played into the collectible game Illuvium Album, completing the collection of hundreds of unique attribute links and filling the album to earn leaderboard rankings.

To ensure that all users have the opportunity to collect the rarest items, Illuvitars will be sold in two types of packages, namely Illuvitar D1SK and Mega D1SK. Illuvitar D1SK includes 1 reward level Illuvitar, 1 random Illuvitar, and 3 accessories, while Mega D1SK includes 1 rare item, 1 random Illuvitar, and 3 accessories. Users can mint an unlimited number of Illuvitars during the sales window. Once the sale ends, these Illuvitars will never be minted again.

In the first auction of Illuvium land, the number of T1 lands is 12029 Blocks, T2 lands is 5012 Blocks, T3 lands is 2088 Blocks, T4 lands is 869 Blocks, and T5 lands is 2 Blocks. According to the asset trading market IlluviDEX data of Illuvium, their current floor prices are 0.35E, 1.05E, 2.78E, and 11.34E, while T5 has not been listed yet. The estimated market value of the land is 23044E, equivalent to 36.27 million USD. According to Coinmarketcap data, its token ILV currently has a circulating market value of 181 million USD and a total market value of 789 million USD.

According to the internal testing rules of Illuvium, the application channels for the Arena and Overworld versions are relatively flexible, and community players have the opportunity to participate. The Alpha version of Zero is only open to landowners, with a maximum of 20,000 eligible users for testing.

According to data from third-party website query tools, the Illuvium official website has had around 500,000 visits in the past three months, with a slight decrease in January. User reviews indicate an average visit duration of 6 minutes. The main visiting regions are the United States and France.

( Parallel

Parallel is a trading card game based on the ETH Blockchain, featuring sci-fi themed NFTs. Players can purchase and collect cards, flexibly using different cards to create rule-compliant decks for gameplay.