🎂 Mini Royale: Nations Celebrates One Year Since Launch

It's our birthday! Here's a look our favorite milestones from the last year 🎈

TIME MACHINE, ACTIVATE! 🤖

It’s December 16th, 2021 and Mini Royale: Nations just launched as the first live multiplayer game on Solana. Articles in news sources like VentureBeat and Decrypt have gotten the world’s attention about Faraway, a new game studio on a mission to bring open economy gaming to life. The Season 1 Premium Collection dropped on Magic Eden a few days ago, and players are eager to jump into fps matches with their new Viking Heroes. The adventure begins.

Looking back at the last year, the Mini Royale: Nations team has hit tons of milestones to make our game a pioneer in open economy gaming. MRN has undergone significant transformation since our launch last December—Here’s a look back at our favorite accomplishments of the year!

Season 1 - The Dawn of Mini Royale

📅 Dec 2021 - March 2022

Major Updates

✅ Mini Royale: Nations goes live as the first live multiplayer game to incorporate the Solana blockchain

✅ The first ever on-chain Battle Pass goes live with prizes that will soon be mintable 

Other Accomplishments

• The end of Open Beta - Mini Royale: Nations is launched on the Solana blockchain, kicking things off with Season 1: Vikings

• 10k Vikings and soldiers are minted on Magic Eden as part of the Season 1 Premium Collection

• The Discord server grows to 70k

• Our wintry arena map Victory Lake is launched

• Grinders rejoice! Daily Quests are launched for players to collect Orbs

• Loyalists rejoice! Attendance rewards are launched with prizes for people who log in every day

• The Mini Insider, our news hub at news.miniroyale.io is up and running 

• Our first Loot Collection goes live launched on Magic Eden

• The community gets involved through the Mini Royale: Nations Beta Testing Program

• Design update V1 - New base heroes are swapped in and the design team ramps up for Operation Total Design Overhaul

Oh, and we got a shout out from Toly! 😎

Season 2 - Heads Down for Rapid Fire Releases

📅 April 2022 - July 2022

Major Updates

✅ Mini Royale: Nations launches Direct Minting, the ability for players to mint their in-game items

Other Accomplishments

• Season 2: Cyberpunk 2069 launched on April 7th, bringing new collections, game content and more

• The Premium Tier of the Battle Pass goes live, rewarding Premium Collection holders

• Leaderboards, private rooms, pre and post-battle flows get a makeover

• Attribute Quests enter the picture, giving more utility to Premium Heroes and Loot Weapons

• Killstreak medals appear on the HUD

• A new map enters the rotation: Neo Metro

• Mini Royale: Nations is nominated for the NFT NYC Gaming Awards

• Battle Pass Boost gets some improvements, rewarding our mega holders

• Leaderboard events like TDM Saturdays give players USDC prizes

• Factory and Industry maps get a facelift

• Clans revel in the launch of new clan management tool, clan roles and settings 

• Item Levels go live, adding more spice to Heroes and Weapons

• The Orb Refinery opens its doors for business and players begin Orb Enrichment in preparation for Clan Wars

• Free For All mode appears in Private Rooms

• We partner with our friends at Chillchat to create the Mini Royale x Chillchat Origin of Mini

Sank Season - The Emergence of Clan Wars 

📅 July 2022 - August 2022

Major Updates

✅ Say hello to Clan Wars

✅ We partner with Sank Toys, a leading designer toy brand to deliver Mini Royale x Sank, with all new Premium and Loot Collections, a new Sank map reskin, and other special in-game content

Other Accomplishments

• Our Mini Royale x Sank Special and Loot Collections premiere on Magic Eden

• Sank Season launches on July 7th in game

• Sank Suburbia is added to the map rotation

• We launch the Sank Scavenger Hunt, a multi-week quest awarding the first handful of players who complete it with the Legendary Sank Soaker

• The Mini Royale: Nations team tries a new way to get Premiums in the hands of players and mega holders with the S3 Premium Hero airdrop

Season 3 - Something Looks… Different 

Sept 2022 - Dec 2022

Major Updates

✅ The Faraway platform, our suite of web3 game dev tools like Direct Minting, Item Staking systems, Tiered Leaderboard Payouts and more  goes live as a service for other game studios 

✅ Operation Total Design Overhaul hits a key milestone through complete updates of in game Hero and weapon design

✅ Butter arrives as Mini Royale’s official in-game currency used in Big Shot, World Domination, Clan Wars staking, and more

✅ The Lab opens its doors for Fusion business, and players can now burn skins to unlock better prizes

✅ The Individual Tiered Leaderboard for Clan Wars appears, rewarding Clan Members for their contributions during Clan Wars

Other Accomplishments

• Season 3: Hyperdrive goes live on September 7th

• A new map, Invasion, is added to the rotation

• Item shards are introduced, incentivizing players who participate in multiple features of the game to collect skin pieces

• Gigabrain Clan War mode World Domination goes live, requiring top strategy for this new turn based city building and attacking mode

• Faraway redesigns faraway.gg and creates a hub for MRN players at faraway.gg/miniroyale

• Co-founder Dennis Zdonov gives a tedtalk at Solana Games Day while G2’s KennyS dominates the MRN battlefield on stream

Season 4 - Clan Wars Steal the Show with Solana Jackpot

📅 Dec 2022 - Present

Major Updates

✅ New mechanic for Premium skin collecting goes live through the weekly Premium Samurai Drop, which also fuels the all new Solana Jackpot for top Clans and Clan Members during Clan Wars

Other Accomplishments

• Season 4 launches on December 9, featuring an all new Samurai collection 

• Shinigami Square is added to the map rotation

• Better onboarding systems go live, helping new players navigate all of the juicy features that Mini Royale has to offer 

• Star Leagues come into play, giving players who hit certain level milestones boosts in XP, BP points, and Clan Wars

• Quests are reborn as Challenges and Contracts

• Rarity bonuses are added as a new staking category for Clan Wars

And we’re just getting started.

Here we are, all up to date, but there’s still so much to come. In Season 4 alone, the team plans to launch Gear, Progression Stats, Power Level, Burn Points, a new map, and more. 

A sincere, heartfelt thank you to our players, who have spent the last year building with us through ups and downs, through the bull and the bear. From casual match hoppers to headshot maximalists, we are honored to have you as part of our community. We will continue to pave the way for open economy gaming with your support ❤

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