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Project Highlights

• The Battle Royale genre is highly enjoyable for players as it tests their skills against each other and keeps them on their toes. It’s kill or be killed, until you’re the last one standing. The better you are, the more you win / earn.
• Each player will have their own pool (think of it as inventory), and the prizes will be dependent on the size of the pool. The better the pool, the higher the reward.
• The Blast Royale token, $NOOB, is set to launch in Q4 2024, bringing exciting activations and benefits to holders both in-game and beyond.
• The team has already planned several revenue streams, which will be mostly determined by the ecosystem's growth. Most of the in-game activities will generate a system fee, a portion of which will go to company revenue and a portion to the treasury.
• Blast Royale successfully closed a $5M private token sale. The round was co-led by Animoca Brands and Mechanism Capital and joined by several other top investors and partners including Dragonfly Capital, Play Ventures Future Fund, DeFiance Capital, Double Peak, Polygon, C² Ventures, Morningstar Ventures, DWeb3, Merit Circle, Shima Capitol, Ancient8, AvocadoDAO and is backed by notable angel investors such as Santiago R Santos and Nick Chong.
• The team behind Blast Royale is First Light Games - A company with a combined 100+ years of experience designing AAA games for mobile, console and PC. The team also has a wealth of experience, having worked for some of the biggest names in the gaming industry including Zynga, Capcom and PlayStation.
• Blast Royale has around 1 million downloads and a total of 100K + Monthly Active Users (MAU).

Overview

Blast Royale is an ecosystem that combines Battle Royale (like Free Fire, PUBG, COD, Zooba, Bullet Echo...) gaming with a Play-and-Earn model. This game genre is highly enjoyable, as players battle each other in a big open world to be the last survivor. This is exciting for players as it tests their skills against each other and keeps them on their toes. It’s kill or be killed, until you’re the last one standing. The better you are, the more you win / earn.

Figure 1: Top Grossing Mobile Battle Royale Shooters in the U.S for Q1/2021

Play with your friends in the action-packed top-down mobile shooter that combines MOBA features & Battle Royale PvP action! Compete against up to 48 players in fast battles, improve your skills, join squads, earn rewards, and be the Last Noob Standing. It's time to Blast!

Gameplay

• In Battle Royale mode, players are pitted against each other in 'last standing' survival matches. Players select where on the map they deploy with their pre-selected Equipment from their inventory.
• Players can find other pieces of equipment (ammo, health packs, armor, and other items) on the map, but generally, they are not as powerful as the ones starting with. They can also take items dropped by other players after killing them, such as their NFT weapons and potentially get an even better weapon. However, players do not get to keep the items they collect during a match.

Blast Royale is presently in Beta Test, with Deathmatch as the only mode (where the goal is to kill the other players' characters as many times as possible). This seems to be quite smooth, and the community has had a positive response.

• In Blast Royale, you can earn the token within the game. By progressing through the Blast Pass levels, you will unlock rewards in $NOOB. There are constant rewards that increase with each level, making every achievement feel rewarding and exciting.

Team

First Light Games was founded in 2018 and initially funded by Play Ventures. They completed a Seed Round in Q1 2020 lead by Korea Investment Partners and joined by Dune Ventures and Play Ventures.

Some of their previous products:

Figure 8: Team previous products

Some prominent members include:

• Neil McFarland - CEO - Creative Lead and Co-Founder: 20 years experience in designing mobile games. Some previous names: Monument Valley, MV2, Lands End VR, Whale Trail.
• Anil Das Gupta - CPO: Formerly Director of Product, Lead Designer and Product Manager on some of the world’s biggest games. Previously at NaturalMotion, Wargaming, GREE and Capcom.
• Matt Ryan - CTO: Former Tech Lead at PLAYRMAKR, CGT Programmer at NaturalMotion, Senior Programmer at Sony, Lionhead.
• Miguel Tomas - Director of Development: Former Development Director at Inno Games, Gram Games on top 50 hit Merge Dragons, and CTO at Bica Games.
• Nikita Denissov - Game Design Director: Lead designer at Wargaming and Creative Mobile, working on a wide range of genres such as PvP, PvE Midcore and Casual games.

More details on team members can be found here: https://first-light-games.gitbook.io/blast-royale/miscellaneous/team

Investors and Partners

Blast Royale successfully closed a $5M private token sale. The round was co-led by Animoca Brands and Mechanism Capital and joined by several other top investors and partners including Dragonfly Capital, Play Ventures Future Fund, DeFiance Capital, Double Peak, Polygon, C² Ventures, Morningstar Ventures, DWeb3, Merit Circle, Shima Capitol, Ancient8, AvocadoDAO and is backed by notable angel investors such as Santiago R Santos and Nick Chong.

Figure 9: Blast Royale investors and partners

Community

The Community is very young, yet they are already seeing positive results from their work:

Table 6: Blast Royale social platform statistics

The major theme of current discussions is the gameplay, which is excellent, and this is what we would hope the community brings up when learning about a new gamefi project. It's always a good indication that people are paying attention to the game rather than the earning or token-related factors.

The Blast Royale team really puts in effort to interact with their community.

• There are several activities on Discord for users to participate in, such as a daily quiz with a leaderboard. Aside from that, they have AMA sessions to engage with members and patiently explain what they do and hope to achieve in the future.

• They create a positive, family vibe; often, gaming entrepreneurs are not "gamers" themselves since they are too busy, but showing their enthusiasm for gaming and player experience is great for optics and building trust with the community: