Developer Pixelmatic has released a trailer for upcoming sci-fi MMO Infinite Fleet, scored by longtime Hollywood composer Vince Dicola. Infinite Fleet is honestly a bit of an odd one. It has development pedigree, is ambitious enough to be entering the MMO space with a retro anime art style—and it's all built on crypto.
The developer's been rather coy about what exactly differentiates Infinite Fleet from its most obvious inspirations such as EVE. Players work co-operatively with their fleets to fight an AI alien threat, "leaving their legacy in the game's lore via its unique directed narrative feature," and there's also "open combat" which is presumably some sort of equivalent to EVE's nullsec PvP zones. The press release cites Homeworld and EVE as big inspirations, before dropping the bomb about how it is "integrating a crypto asset to power its in-game peer-to-peer economy."
Yay. Players earn a cryptocurrency called INF by playing which, as with EVE's PLEX system, is of limited supply and, unlike the PLEX system, is built on "a secondary layer of the Bitcoin blockchain" called the Liquid Network. The game's business model is essentially built on the hope that it will get big enough for a secondary market to develop around this, as has been the case to some extent with PLEX. This will give players "true ownership of the asset" (except, of course, the chances of anyone outside of Infinite Fleet ever wanting that asset are unlikely).
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