Earth From Another Sun (EFAS) revealed that it secured $4.5 million in funding to develop its sandbox space conquest game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Participants in the funding round are Solana Ventures, Lightspeed<\/a>, and Alameda Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Earth From Another Sun is one of many blockchain titles in the works, but it has already attracted paying gamers. The game has over 10,000 closed-alpha paying players after three and a half years of development. All the players are PC gamers and paid between $30 and $250 to get early access to the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The EFAS team has veterans from major game studios and developers, including Riot Games<\/a>, Disney Interactive, Gameloft, IGG, Kylotonn, and Perfect World.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Studios are now using blockchain to create new experiences and open gaming to a new world of possibilities. Furthermore, building games using crypto-powered Web3 infrastructure opens a whole new world of ownership and liberty to gamers that have been hitherto unavailable in the gaming sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have always been a studio that has a relentless focus on creating great gameplay, on creating \u2018fun.\u2019 What Web3 allows us to do is to share the revenue generated by the game with the players that made it popular,\u201d said the studio founder Freeman Fan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Fan promised players that on Earth From Another Sun\u2014they\u2019ll enjoy an action-packed FPS experience in a multiplayer \u201cliving, breathing galaxy.\u201d He also said that his team is working to make EFAS as popular as some of the greatest games, such as GTA and World of Warcraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n