The Beacon

The Beacon is a F2P action roguelite role-playing game (RPG) in development on Treasure DAO. The premise of the game includes venturing into dungeons, defeating evils, exploring the world with friends, and expanding the Beacon's light. The settlement launch was carried out November 25 through December 14, 2022. The Beacon launched a playable prototype for users to try out the gameplay. Players can also collect limited edition non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and be on the allowlist for the mint slated for December 16, 2022.

The Beacon is a fantasy roguelite RPG that combines the social aspect of massively multiplayer online games with Web3 and NFTs. The game revolves around two main concepts: a sólo roguelike dungeon crawler, where players go through procedurally generated dungeons and are required to go as far as they can to get loot; and social gameplay powered by an in-game housing system and an open world-like town for players to interact with.

Competition and co-op are in the game’s scope plans. The Beacon is powered by Treasure, though it is not formally part of it at the core. There are also about ten other game partners that The Beacon works with. They are also building with and atop Treasure and the token MAGIC. The social part of The Beacon has players doing extra interactive activities.

According to the team, The Beacon was online for two weeks and had about 24,000 players in the game, due to its familiar graphic style resonating with people of the same age groups who grew up playing games that look like it. In addition, its competition, sociability, art, gameplay, and the capacity for players to show off were some of the concepts that elevated the prototype.

The Beacon is being built inside the Treasure Ecosystem, and the role-playing game traditionally possesses the following characteristics:

• Procedurally generated map
• Dungeon crawler
• Permadeath

When the game is properly released, users will be able to enter the dungeon with their weapon of choice, clear enemies, and locate upgrades for their characters. Upgrades change the character’s attack, skills, and movement and are required for gameplay.

Users can either play solo or with a party to explore the game's dungeons. When a player dies in the game or clears the dungeon, they lose all their upgrades and begin from scratch. Different games offer different challenges and experiences.

There are three tiers of gameplay:

• Paid characters: A paid character has a set of character cosmetics, house decor, and quality-of-life benefits. Paid players can compete in the leaderboard and are eligible to receive available rewards and incentives. NFTs or tokens received in-game can be withdrawn or traded.
• Blessed characters: These tier of characters have access to everything a paid player would have, but can mint Gen-0 pets. While pets can be bred, Gen-0 pets have traits that are particular to them and can aid players. The supply of Blessed Characters is limited, with 4096 slots available.
• F2P tier: The Beacon’s free-to-play model allows users experience the rogue-lite game without paying. F2P players get access to the dungeons, housing, and social areas. The players are also eligible to loot the NFTs that paid players loot during gameplay.

Houses are social spaces in The Beacon. Users can receive NFT decorations for their house by playing and clearing dungeons, then decorate the house to their taste with different decorations to pick from. They can also visit other players’ houses and import partner projects and collections into the game. The team plans to include the ability to sell NFTs via houses.

The game does not have a token on its own. Fundamentally, MAGIC serves as the game’s unit of account. Instead of making their own token, The Beacon relies on Treasure’s economic infrastructure to power the game. MAGIC is utilized on the secondary market, but the team intends to add TIP-09 Emissions.

Users get tokens through TIP-09 emissions, BCN emissions that will be disclosed as game loops are established, and through limited NFTs that users get through the gameplay during certain periods of time. Beyond The Beacon’s eventual planned token, which will be called $BCN, MAGIC is utilized across the entire Treasure ecosystem in all its games.

It is the reserve asset and unit of account in the marketplace Trove, AMM MagicSwap, and can be rewarded by games powered by Treasure as a result of gameplay, skill, and strategy. It also possesses different game elements that appeal to various players. Players who like interior design can decorate their houses, players who like dungeon runs can go at their own pace, speed run it, or try killing everything. There are also daily videos of clearing the dungeons without taking damage.

Treasure is developing a self-described "decentralized Nintendo"—a bottom-up ecosystem of games developed around the token called MAGIC. There are three aspects of Treasure: (1) composable games powered by Treasure utilizing resources like MAGIC, (2) a community of players and builders, and (3) infrastructure.

The Beacon is one of the action roguelite RPG games with a player community that has emerged in the Treasure ecosystem. Different exchanges have gone live, like Binance and Coinbase, to get MAGIC into the retail market. It serves as an entry point for players to come into Treasure and pick up a game like The Beacon.