Rooniverse Updates | 13 Feb 2023
Roo Leap toward Mass Game Adoption
Major News
Rooniverse announces tech partnership with Immutable X, a gaming infrastructure chain by Immutable studio.
With scalability and user-experience for all players as the reasons for the move, XP Foundry opted to move on-chain assets over to IMX. This puts Rooniverse one crucial step closer to its envisioned mainstream adoption.What a road it has been for us... ROONIVERSE: F2P Hyper-Royale Mobile Game ๐คฉ This next step is for ROOTIFUL USER EXPERIENCE & SCALABILITY for our players everywhere FUN FIRST ON OUR JOURNEY TOWARD ROOHALLA ๐ช venturebeat.com/games/xp-foundโฆRead more on VentureBeat!
Weโve received overwhelming support from Rooniverse community, partners, and the wider ecosystem who are all rooting for our success as a F2P mobile game that lets players from web2 and web3 game together in one HECKIN FUN world!
Big news from @playrooniverse today! They are moving chains! The team has always been clear that they are about FUN and mass adoption of players and this move seems to be well aligned with that. I'm happy for the team and excited to see where things go from here :) LFROOOOWelcome @playrooniverse to the IMX family! Migrating from an L1 to IMX, Rooniverse is a F2P hyper-royale mobile game led by XP Foundry. The web3 arm of a AAA gaming studio with experience from Unity Studios to EA with over 120+ titles credited now looking to build #onIMX https://t.co/t6bbJi5hzdImmutable ๐ ง - $IMX @Immutable
Roo Camp & Migration
Origin Roo holders will be able to access Migration tab in the new Roo Camp in several days. Stay tuned for your Rooโs short journey to the other side!
Your Origin Roos and Rooniverse Items will be moved to your on-chain game inventory in just a few clicks! Youโll be able to manage them within Roo Camp and use them in the game client/app when youโve migrated!
Training and Hunting can be resumed after the Migration. Roo owners will no longer need to buy gas fees for putting their Roos to work!Origin Roos, Experooments, and Rooniverse Items can be moved to an IMX wallet for the IMX marketplace whenever you want as well.
Rooniverseโs own marketplace, Roo Bazaar, will be in development for the future so all Rooniverse assets can be traded in our own ecosystem!
Experooments event will take place after the Alpha launches smoothly. Please note that you need a migrated Origin Roo to take part, as well as some Roopacks!
Donโt worry! Your Origin Roo wonโt get hurt; itโll just have to look after a new ugly friend.
Game Development
Alpha build is entering is final week of internal QA now! Get ready to BUGHUNT while collecting rootastic Alpha-exclusive cosmetics on your Alpha battle pass.
Official Alpha soft launch date: Monday 20th February!
You liked collecting heckcoins before? Wait til you get some FAKE CHIPS as daily login rewards! Only earnable and spendable in the Alpha.
Completing a game of Mini-Rooyale will now give you XP for your alpha battle pass!
Roowards shown below subject to change at Alpha release :3With this, the Alpha Shop is up and running!
Check out a few emotes youโll be able to roo into your inventory by playing in the Alpha :3
Weโre embracing the community content and bugs this time around. BECAUSE ITS FUNNY.
Weโve cleaned up the Victory screen and put in a simple match summary
Community
Artist Alandz has released another piece of Roohalla land for his collection.
Roogratulations to Migas from XBorg on the prized snatch!๐๐ถRELCOME Ro ROONIVERSE๐ถ๐ ๐ถ๐ถIslandโs special series๐ถ๐ถ Secondary piece for @playrooniverse The winner is @migas2k8 congratulations๐๐โค๏ธโค๏ธ and I'm so glad that @meltytanti participated in this auction too.โค๏ธโค๏ธ The last piece drop around end of the month๐ซฃRooniverse is late to the subber.xyz party but we made it! Thanks to croo member, Hazy for running a tutorial for the Alpha Scout team.
And thank you to the subber team for verifying us immediately at lightspeed as soon as Jamb screamed at them.
RooHub opportunities this week included NFT Backpack invite codes, SVPLY CHVN - CRVTXRZ whitelist spots, and C24 Labs whitelist spots!
Roocord is growing with new members from new gaming communities, in preparation for the Alpha Launch. If you see a new friend around - donโt forget to throw a Scorching Drumstick at them!