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MEGACITY: The Cyberpunk Social Arcade

Team MEGACITY here with a quick update on our new look, and a bit more about our upcoming plans.

You may remember that we announced our move to the Steem blockchain a little over a month ago under the name Cache, and even did an interview with Steemit Inc’s Head Of Communications, @andrarchy.

You can check out those posts here:

Since then have been busy with development, fine tuning, and preparations for our full public release this fall.

megacity first.jpg

Cache Becomes MEGACITY

Our vision for the project has grown beyond the seed of Cache. We are rebranding to a name that better represents the true essence of the game.

Cache is one of the currencies within the MEGACITY universe, and was an integral part of the original backstory.

However, it is all much bigger than one token. MEGACITY is a whole cyberpunk themed universe where you can explore, interact, and become a character in the game itself.

The Game

MEGACITY is a social arcade powered by cryptocurrency, set in a 8-bit cyberpunk universe. It is free-to-play, available on the web, Android or iOS.

It is the alternate reality where you can be whoever you want - while you play games, earn crypto, and interact with others.

Within MEGACITY, you can:

Play for free
Earn crypto just for playing
Use the Trading Simulation to trade cryptocurrencies across exchanges to earn your way to the top
Purchase in-game items with crypto - STEEM, BTC, ETH
Own your tokens, your items, your avatars, even your own exchange
Import and export items to multiple blockchains including Steem and Ethereum
Choose your affiliation - and chat and trading with other players

The upcoming public release is playable on the web, as well as iOS and Android.

Back Story

The year is 2084. The traditional world economies have collapsed, all fiat currencies have been replaced by several cryptocurrencies - largely owned by tech company cartels.

You begin the game as a low level Tent City dweller nobody cares about, besides the PLASMANET loan sharks who you owe a large debt.

One day, you are approached by a woman who offers you a bit of help - 50 CACHE tokens for the Trading Simulation.

Can you now work your way out of this rat race? While avoiding corruption, violence, and deceit around every corner?

Core Team

Erik Johnson

Game Design and Programming

Erik has led successful web and mobile application releases for Harvard Medical School, acquired startups, and multiple Fortune 500 companies.

Roscoe Lamontagne

Game Design and Artwork

Roscoe has completed art installations for clients including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Comcast, and Tufts University.

We will be sharing more details about the team in future posts, as well as their own personal journeys in developing MEGACITY.

Why Steem?

So why Steem? Good question. Two major reasons: the technology, and the community.

Technology

It is very important for us that MEGACITY is a free to play game. While we had been developing exclusively on Ethereum previously, we realized that with spikes in transaction fees, this would not be sustainable. We have no interest in making our players have to pay a fee for every transaction they make within the game, and on Ethereum that seemed to be the future.

Moving our core development to the Steem blockchain allows us to keep with our vision of a free to play game for all.

Community

The tech is great, but that is not the only thing that attracted us to Steem.

The Steem Community is the strongest blockchain community out there. At the core we have a community who interacts and engages on a daily basis. Considering that MEGACITY is a social game - you play, interact and engage with others within an alternate universe… it’s the best pairing.

Future Plans

MEGACITY will be available for release in Fall 2019. Our goal here is to share the on-going journey of building the game with the Steem Community along the way.

Upcoming updates will include:

Sneak Peaks
Game Play
Additional Artwork
A look behind the scenes of building MEGACITY
Special Incentives exclusively for the Steem Community

Not only do we want to be a part of the Steem Community, but we want you all to be a part of MEGACITY too.

Oh, and don’t forget to pre-register now at https://megacity.gg! You’ll get a free in-game item, just for signing up.

Comments · 71

@masterthematrix(61)· 2431d
Any new updates on your project? You have set the release for the game at fall 2019 do have any updates on that?
@healthiswealth(66)· 2560d
Have you considered doing things in 3D? https://www.videocoin.io/
@briggsy(65)· 2563d
Can't wait for this game, absolutely love the concept
@extrabloger(27)· 2563d
We are to much exited..
@julisavio(70)· 2563d
Greetings, @megacity

Excelent news, man

thank you for share with us

#battle #spt #steemace
@healthiswealth(66)· 2564d
Loved your chat with @anarchy You mentioned a mixed world between realitiy and digital domain; VR tools like https://www.oculus.com might be the ticket to this.

Get them on board and your Golden!
@steemmillionaire(70)· 2564d
Awesome! First of all, welcome to the STEEM! It's great to have one more game on the blockchain, and I believe that now everybody is impatient for the big release!
@healthiswealth(66)· 2564d
Making progress, Good On Yah All. By the way; have you consider networking with Enjin Coin? Cross platform abilities could take you to a Billion users.
You have my support. Be well.
@nightwing665(25)· 2564d
I just came to know about this game and it sounds mind blowing🤯 Feeling excited for it!
@julisavio(70)· 2564d
Greetings, @megacity

Excelent, what type of game will be??? Flash fight game???

When it will be lauched?? thank youu

#battle #spt #steemleo #steemace
@chappertron(67)· 2564d
Nice, resteem!
@kharma.scribbles(58)· 2564d
Thank you so much for ditching the ETH platform! As a gamer who has been trying to move most of my games to the blockchain (or at least towards games where I can earn crypto playing) I found it impossible to be a daily player of games that exclusively used the ETH blockchain. Cryptodozer for example, awesome game, too bloody expensive!

Could never play Crypto Kitties because of ETH.. but Blockchaincuties? Yep! They are on 3 (four?) different chains!

I can't wait to play this game! Is there somewhere we can apply to be some of the first testers? I'd love to!
@jbgarrison72(50)· 2564d
This looks very promising... looking forward to Fall 2019.
@samscalet(29)· 2565d
this so freaking awesome! i would love to play them now
@emiliomorles(72)· 2565d
to use this ![aa.JPG](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmVTtFuugjX4aV57dtABD6hs8H5w5KUsqKGxT8XmxHWLfM/aa.JPG)
@khan.dayyanz(64)· 2565d
Looking forward to it. Keep up the good work.
@jaki01(77)· 2565d
I am more than busy playing Steem Monsters, but it looks really good and interesting what you are planning! :)
@luro900(43)· 2566d
It's great that they use the steam network to run this game, I'm eager to try it, in fact it will be the first one I use! Well, wait.
@justtryme90(71)· 2566d
This is cool, nice to see outside developers getting more in to the opportunities of blockchains.
@junayed56(25)· 2566d
sai mama
@junayed56(25)· 2566d
nice new so xo bro
@arcange(79)· 2566d
Congratulations @megacity! Your post was mentioned in the Steem Hit Parade in the following category:
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@cloudspyder(60)· 2566d
Wow, this is really a good news for me... Megacity will make mega steem soon...
@clumsysilverdad(65)· 2566d
sounds kinda cool
@mohsen2077(37)· 2566d
It looks great :-)
@cubapl(62)· 2566d
drugwars looks like a ghost town right now and not much is going on, I am still playing but I am also looking for some alternatives. Megacity can be a great solution ! I am going to check it right now
@iluminaco(25)· 2566d
Good Idea, Fantastic Game
@thevillan(68)· 2566d
Great news, cyberpunk is a genre of music I always love. I hope this game has a great soundtrack to boot :)
@craigahamilton(59)· 2566d
Illustrator here, so the genre is very appealing ;) The theme I'm really digging and I would love to see more about this game. Bookmarking the link, I'll definitely check it out as the crypto markets progresses.

Thank you @megacity for sharing this!
@amitporwal(27)· 2566d
Please support my blogs.
@doctorcrypto(63)· 2566d
This looks like fun! Can't wait to see what kind of cyber slob I end up being :)

Pressing like button
@goldmanmorgan(59)· 2566d
cute :)

you have a demo or a video or something ?

ah never mind ... watching it heh

https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@cacheverse/from-ethereum-to-steem

Gud gud gud, the more the merrier, i just wonder, where you people get the money for flying around the world and doing snazzy presentations en location on stage like that ? you all came in this game with money, right ?

so there's nothing arcade about it, its a trading sim ?

BUT GOOD , lol , i was just, because its not the first one and that huge mmo of which i forgot the name also had a website and a very good looking frontpage but the last i heard of them they were asking $250 k on kickstarter just to "go to alpha" ( = lmao , right?) and in over 10 years of living on crypton since i was burning gpu's mining btc i grew a bit weary of "the next big thing" , especially if it comes with bru-ha but you guys look simple enough (which is a compliment from a weirdo like me) ... i'm looking forward to it. I'm just wondering

barring the money you clearly have to fly around the planet, where's the revenue come from over time ? servers cost money, development cost time, people gotta eat ... i'm always curious as to new ways of getting money, you see ... :) any trade secrets to share ? what makes it sustainable ?

(not asking how it benefits steem , but how you can keep doing it if its all free ?)
@ocupation(71)· 2566d
Cool boyz, I was wondering where you guys were. Looking forward to it!
@nils1990(66)· 2566d
Looks very interesting! Following you...
@crypto.piotr(65)· 2566d
Hi @megacity

Amazing idea Erik and Roscoe.

Wouldn't it be better if you would wait for SMTs to be released? Otherwise price of your token will be always kind of "connected" to price of STEEM token.

And STEEM is sinking down and will continue as long as Steemit Inc is dumping large amounts on monthly basis to cover their daily expenses.

Upvote on the way :)

Yours Piotr
@umangparmar(27)· 2566d
We Are To Much Exited For This..
@justinw(63)· 2566d
Welcome to Steem @megacity - glad to see you guys here!
@strangefruit(27)· 2566d
I'm actually really excited for this, I really would like to contribute to the artwork of the game I do motion design and I love the cyberpunk and vaporwave feel.
@davedickeyyall(79)· 2566d
Looks interesting.. pre-registered
@yonny(61)· 2566d
Based on the Devs behind megacity, this game will be awesome! Cant wait!! :))
@thegoliath(73)· 2566d
Signing up now as this would be an excellent initiative, to have an arcade here on the blockchain and everyone loves to play for free but able to earn still. Looking forward to being able to give it a go!
@epicdave(64)· 2566d
Looking good! Can't wait to play MEGACITY :D What sort of Soundtrack are you going with for this game?
@orionmisfit(11)· 2566d
Real fascinating stuff.
@torros(50)· 2566d
Looking forward amazing news and launching game.
@theb0red1(68)· 2567d
Wow has it really only been a month since the last announcement? Seems like forever, but I'm still waiting for this game, it looks really interesting 😎

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@chronocrypto(76)· 2567d
This is going to be epic.
@niallon11(77)· 2567d
Great to see it. It looks like an interesting game and can't wait to see it develop. We will all be watching the progress and can't wait to jump into it as well.
@russellstockley(70)· 2567d
wow this sounds excellent, gonna pre register right now :)
@florian-glechner(78)· 2567d
Thanks for using steem. :-) The missing fees are a good positive point for steem also the 3 Seconds transaction time. I am looking forward to see the game live.
@waleedtee(45)· 2567d
very cool, love the art work as well !
@moderndayhippie(68)· 2567d
Wow, this looks pretty awesome, Im stoked! 😁👍
@rollandthomas(76)· 2567d
Looking forward to the game.

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@resiliencia(75)· 2567d
I want to test it asap!

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@manniman(69)· 2567d
I'm on it, that sounds amazing!
@steemitboard(66)· 2567d
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@neonflux(42)· 2567d
this game looks promising
@bamos(50)· 2567d
I think, that is very interesting game))
@meesterboom(81)· 2567d
This is MEGA!!
@bearbear613(74)· 2567d
awesome.. crypto games are the Future and I'll be joining once we get more info!
@thebluewin(61)· 2567d
I am excited for the game!
@cknr7(55)· 2567d
Awesome guys, congrats for the work done so far and nice move choosing steem for running your game.
@adsup(61)· 2567d
This looks exciting! Can't wait to see it develop
@deepwaters(55)· 2567d
This is a game I am definitely interested in. I look forward to trying it out. Please notify when the game is released.
@shoemanchu(75)· 2567d
Patiently waiting....

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@okean123(66)· 2567d
Looking forward to more news and of course the release! :)
@enforcer48(75)· 2567d
@chireerocks(75)· 2567d
@megacity, Great to know that you've found Steem Blockchain more effective space for your gaming world. Wishing you successful journey on Steem Blockchain.

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@elektropunkz(59)· 2567d
This looks very nice, if you guys are looking for in game soundtrack work, let me know, i’m one of the composers of the official kult game soundtrack, so i might be able to help you out
@steemitqa(64)· 2567d
Glad to see you guys choose the Steem blockchain. If you need any questions answered I'm around!
@martie7(62)· 2567d
I will follow your game.
@aggroed(80)· 2567d
Find me in Discord. Maybe there's a way I can help you guys grow here.