CCP Games reveals EVE Frontier, a blockchain-based survival game

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CCP Games today revealed the official name and details about its blockchain project, formerly known as Project Awakening. The new game is called EVE Frontier, and it’s a space survival game set in the EVE Online universe. Frontier is a single-shard MMO, meaning a massive sandbox where the players all exist and survive within a shared space. CCP Games plans to launch a closed playtest sometime in the near future, and players can sign up to participate on the Frontier website.

EVE Frontier is set in the far future, as the player character awakes from stasis to find the ruins of civilization. They must explore and make use of the Frontier’s resources in order to survive by fueling and upgrading their ship while also engaging in combat against rogue AI prowling space. Players can also create their own custom currency and establish markets where they can trade goods, services and reputation.

CCP Games raised $40 million for its blockchain gaming ambitions last year. The developer has tested EVE Frontier, or Project Awakening, across multiple phases, the most recent being Phase III (the upcoming closed playtest is called Phase IV). According to the developers, players can rebuild space via an open-ended platform called Smart Assemblies, which they call “enhanced base-building” in the Frontier FAQ. Players can build multiple types of structures, which are “imbued with a programmable layer that links the world of the Frontier to the real world outside of it.”

Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, CCP Games CEO, said in a statement, “EVE Frontier redefines the survival genre by fusing intense space survival gameplay with the limitless emergent potential of a player-driven, persistent sandbox universe. From exploiting space itself to shaping entire economies, every decision ripples across this dark and uncompromising expanse. We welcome you to join us in building this next step in our history; awake eternally.”