Introducing Decentraland’s XOM-8: Scrapyard Escape

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Jul 26, 2018
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Join a faction of robots racing to escape the planet in Decentraland’s blockchain-based, coop strategy game

XOM-8: Scrapyard Escape Picture a barren landscape littered with futuristic space debris. There are dozens of robots, all hard at work collecting scrap metal and spare parts, rushing against the clock to construct buildings, machines, and starships. This is the setting for XOM-8: Scrapyard Escape, their first-party game built for the Decentraland platform!

What is XOM-8?

Scrapyard Escape is a team-cooperative strategy game focused on three warring factions of robots. At the beginning of each week-long match, players choose a faction to support, and then are tasked with collecting different materials scattered around the play-space — a group of Decentraland owned parcels. As each team gathers more resources and builds up their base, they progress toward the ultimate goal: manufacturing a starship to escape the surface of the planet.

Scrapyard Escape will be available for anyone to play. The game will take place in separate matches lasting approximately one real-world week. Before the beginning of each match, interested players will have a 24 hour period when they can sign up and select their faction. Once the game begins, the factions compete against each other in a race to collect different resources that they then use to build factories, equipment, and warehouses to store even more resources. The ultimate objective is to return to their home planet by building a new starship.

The winning teams will be awarded MANA from a pool that each player must contribute to in order to play. Players can also earn in-game assets like special buildings and machinery upgrades in the form of NFTs that can be reused in future matches.

What does XOM-8 look like?

Every match begins with the Landfall Event. After players sign up and the game starts, a huge catastrophic battle begins to unfold in the skies above Decentraland. The players take the form of disabled XOM-8 robots, and can only watch as debris and slagged out starships from their factions begin raining down onto the surface of the planet, or Genesis City.

A ship from each faction eventually crashes down, containing a sentient Command Crystal. In a final effort, the Command Crystal reanimates the players’ disabled XOM-8s, and provides them with instructions for the steps needed to rebuild their faction’s ship.

At this point, the game officially begins and the players are able to move around the world.