‘Parallel’ Game Adds Over 120 New NFT Cards in Planetfall Expansion

Parallel Studios is launching its first enlargement to its namesake sci-fi buying and selling card sport, including over 120 new NFT playing cards that may be purchased in blind packs and traded earlier than they debut within the sport, the studio introduced Wednesday.  

As Parallel prepares so as to add its Planetfall enlargement playing cards to its sport, gamers can select from one in all three completely different card bundles. The Participant Pack prices 0.018 ETH (about $32) and the Collector’s Pack will value gamers 0.18 ETH ($320). Each the Participant and Collector’s Packs include 10 playing cards every. The Collector’s Crate, which consists of 10 Collector’s Packs (100 playing cards) in addition to different perks, will set gamers again 1.6 ETH ($2,848).

In Parallel, players should select between one in all 5 completely different factions, create their very own card decks, select a “Paragon” or playable most important character card, and battle enemies in 1v1 matches the place the primary participant who can get their enemy’s well being factors to zero wins. 

Gamers gained’t get to decide on which playing cards are of their packs, however the Collector’s Pack and Collector’s Crate will grant consumers “uncommon” playing cards versus the fundamental participant pack, which is able to supply a mixture of frequent, unusual, and uncommon playing cards.

Whereas Parallel is promoting its Planetfall bundles starting with a presale for choose early adopters on October 25 (and a wider presale starting October 28), these new playing cards gained’t truly be added to the sport till someday in Q1 or Q2 of 2024, in accordance with a press release.

In contrast to Parallel’s earlier starter deck NFT packs, which have been launched on Coinbase’s Ethereum scaling community Base, Parallel’s Planetfall NFT units will exist on the Ethereum mainnet. Because of this gamers will see greater transaction charges (gasoline charges) when making purchases by comparability—however they gained’t must bridge any crypto to the Base community.

Subsequent week, Parallel may even launch a new patch for its beta, which is able to supply gamers a battle cross, new beauty skins, and new sport choices together with emotes and area backs. A brand new in-game retailer may even be added with the patch, which takes impact October 30. The patch additionally addresses some quality-of-life adjustments to the sport’s visible structure (UX/UI), and decks will now mechanically embrace the rarest playing cards gamers maintain.

Whereas Parallel has been in beta since July, its staff has already launched over 1,200 various kinds of NFTs totaling almost 6 million belongings in complete. Since Parallel first launched NFTs in March 2021, the sport has seen virtually 78,000 ETH in complete quantity traded per information from NFTgo, tallying about $237 million value to this point.

Along with its preliminary NFT playing cards and NFT starter decks, Parallel has additionally launched an avatar PFP assortment, which offers homeowners with further in-game advantages corresponding to further PRIME, Parallel’s ERC-20 token, for wins.