# Web3 Gaming: The Beacon By [Origins Research](https://paragraph.com/@origins-research) · 2022-12-17 --- ![https://twitter.com/nenekaGMI](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/2a80345bcf3b963a422cf1f314f7e6a6598b1e5f49f454f860eb6e5f8749200a.png) https://twitter.com/nenekaGMI The Beacon is an action-roguelike game building inside the Treasure Ecosystem with sprawling dungeons, prodigious loot and formidable monsters to defeat. Over the past two weeks since its Settlement launch, it has accumulated over 40k mints, 22k users, of which 20k are daily active users. ![Source: Dune](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/b2e51dd7f87563e9b55aa05ba757490c7feabfc6170b2b75961bebd6a509e169.png) Source: Dune Despite the unfavourable market conditions, its smashing success demonstrates a new model for Web3 gaming development. What are the insights we can take from The Beacon’s triumph? This article will take a closer look. Article Outline --------------- * Roguelike Style and Skill-Based Gameplay * Social System * 3 Tiers of Gameplay * The Treasure Ecosystem * Closing Remarks Roguelike Style and Skill-Based Gameplay ---------------------------------------- Roguelike games are a specific type of role-playing game that traditionally have the following characteristics: **1) Procedurally generated environments.** - The game will use an algorithm to generate semi-random environments that are both fun and challenging. **2) Dungeon crawler.** - Players either need to escape a dungeon of enemies or survive as long as they can against the ever-increasing quantity and strength of the enemies. **3) Permadeath.** - Once players die in the game or clear the dungeon, they lose all their upgrades and start from scratch. These characteristics offer great replayability by changing every new game experience and have some kind of meta progressions to further enhance customisations. The Beacon achieves progression mostly through the usage of NFT cosmetics. Even though players lose upgrades, and progress does not carry between runs they still get to keep the NFT loot. ![Source: The Beacon](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/e6b26636a43a13cdbeb78c98b9b56b7ba7aa5f8178d03ceb1a8ea05e1a2cbbc6.png) Source: The Beacon According to The Beacon’s Vision Paper, the game will be skill-first. Players that are accustomed to the game with good reflexes and skills would have a higher chance of beating the game and getting better rewards. Weapons and skills have varying learning curves and difficulties which also adds to the challenge. ![Source: The Beacon](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/dce1714fc0042694b4b2fd0cf4501916af8c2711a10c318a7d9b9ccbd397a659.png) Source: The Beacon Moreover, the dungeon layout, size, enemies and difficulty change daily. Web3 gaming skews to an older demographic with a higher net worth. Many lack the time to play video games for hours a day. Having a daily challenge that can be completed every 24 hours shows that The Beacon knows its demographic. Players also don’t need to grind for better loot. Every player only gets one completed dungeon run per character every day. However, The Beacon also introduces extra missions for more hardcore players. Such as a speed run scoreboard, and the optional ability to complete the harder areas within the dungeon might reward players with more or better loot. Additionally, the first esports tournament, The Beacon's #SettlementCup has just taken place. ![Source: The Beacon](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/02839fcf6f8ffd03534dcf3eb93429097de6a7c15b266ea288a2896681465bb1.png) Source: The Beacon Upon completing the dungeon and/or quiz, players receive a loot chest. Within the chests, there will be 1 to 3 loot items, each with its designated rarity found below: * Common (non-NFT) * Rare * Epic * Legendary * Mythical (only through combining legendaries) The loot includes anything from character customisation options to adorable house decorations. The stimulation of difficulty and the incentive of treasure boxes keep players in a positive feedback loop, aka the optimum game flow, thereby making the game fun and addictive. ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/d948e506484c7c5244e9a4505d4c16b1fd7bc918ba28380fbee3f24a0cfbe8a3.png) Social System ------------- The main social aspect of The Beacon is the housing system. It is a social game of self-expression and discovery. Similar to houses in Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing. Players can collect various house decorations to customise their house which can be shown and shared with friends and the public. These items can only be obtained by playing the game or purchasing from the secondary market. There are also seasonal assets that are limited and will not be minted again. The social flex mechanic is a great way to incentivize players to return to collect and own more in-game assets as NFTs. ![Source: The Beacon](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/41b6fdefc7f4fd796e4bd124ee94190fdc61bf798930105da3b42afb1a1c76d2.png) Source: The Beacon Another social incentive in the game is its daily tavern quests, it encourages players to communicate on social platforms to find “secret phrases” which allows for one additional loot box daily. By doing so, it keeps The Beacon’s social channels active and engaging. 3 Tiers of Gameplay ------------------- **1) Free-to-play (F2P) Tier** With the goal of reaching mass-market audiences and helping drive the adoption of Web3 gaming, The Beacon’s F2P model allows as many players as possible to be able to enjoy the full game experience. In contrast to many Web3 games that token gate players to own a playable character, such as Defi Kingdom, The Beacon focuses on gameplay before profit. F2P players get access to the dungeons, housing, and social areas. They are also eligible to loot the same NFTs that paid players loot while playing. The difference as a F2P player will not be able to withdraw or trade the NFTs with other players. In addition, players will also be eligible to win a subset of the token rewards and incentives. **2) Paid Tier** A paid character comes with a starting set of character cosmetics, house decor, and some quality-of-life benefits. Paid players will also be able to compete in the competitive leaderboard and are eligible for all available rewards and incentives. Any NFTs or tokens received in-game will be eligible for withdrawal or trading. ![Source: The Beacon](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/5f9f138c381bb916e650e3a758f442515411ef5d2156dde7bb976f487a9f658a.png) Source: The Beacon **3) Blessed Tier** Blessed characters have access to everything a paid player would have, but are able to mint Gen-0 pets which have unique traits that are specific to them and increase a player’s potential in-game rewards. Blessed characters will also be given early access to The Beacon game and new releases. ![Source: The Beacon](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/f07ea51bbce5a5b9c9d5d03036b1ba59f3fc5d6162c5652de7c85230bf0ed8ee.png) Source: The Beacon The Treasure Ecosystem ---------------------- ![Source: TreasureDAO](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/3b3e7cdfe84f898a20afd1602f9ef0cb3df30a99a74b3d7bd8a96671c88bf499.png) Source: TreasureDAO The Treasure community is the first decentralized interoperable gaming ecosystem. It coins itself as the Nintendo of the metaverse, and each game that is built within the ecosystem is a cartridge for the Nintendo. Currently, including The Beacon, there are 11 games have already built on the back of Treasure, Bridge World and Smolverse being the core game and BattleFly, Toadstoolz, Tales of Elleria, The Lost Donkeys, Lifeverse, Knights of Ether, Lost of SamuRise, Realm and The Beacon being partnered games. Treasure DAO has built a community of artist developers from across the world, a network of various interconnected projects. The video games are initiated through a shared token ecosystem. Treasure’s native token, $MAGIC, can be exchanged for other types of ecosystem credit. At the time of writing over 900k $MAGIC has traded on Beacon equivalent to~$660k USD/~500 ETH and an average daily trading volume of 20.83 ETH. Since The Beacon settlement launch, 1,524,000 total $MAGIC traded in Trove (the marketplace of Treasure ecosystem), of which 964,000 were from the Beacon game alone. This means approximately 63% of all Treasure DAO $MAGIC flow is due to The Beacon since the game’s inception. Moreover, because of the recent Binance listing, the $MAGIC token price has been on a steady uptrend, the token price reflects the public confidence in the Treasure ecosystem and is an indicator of its bright future ahead. ![Source: Dune](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/653943796d9925c92ddf09fcae93e59e2d9020e83514f1d828c2ef0a04e43c8a.png) Source: Dune In short, Treasure DAO is a virtual ecosystem underpinned by game developers that contribute to the value of the shared token. The interoperability of Treasure DAO enables game developers to share tokens, NFTs and network effects through a community-owned player base. Closing Remarks --------------- Despite the unfavourable market conditions in both crypto and the NFT sectors, the success of the Settlement launch of The Beacon is a breath of fresh air. It demonstrated a new model, an enjoyable game that leverages the use case of NFT and community. It led many to take notice of the potential power of the interoperable nature of Web3, where the player base, in-game developments and assets are universally accessible. It also showed us a taste of interoperable game worlds that build on the back of blockchain technology that might one day have millions of daily active users. At OriginsNFT we leverage data-driven decision-making, educational resources, and proprietary analytics to remain ahead of the curve concerning blockchain tech, specifically NFTs. To find out more, please visit our website or Twitter. 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