About

Gala Games and Entertainment is a Web3 digital media ecosystem that primarily focuses on video games compatible with blockchain technology. Games available or in development include fantasy role-playing game (RPG) adventures, multiplayer online battle arenas (MOBAs), town-building and development games, Player vs Player (PvP) tower defense, and epic sci-fi strategy games. The games offered can be accessed in multiple ways, including personal computers running Windows or iOS, and mobile games supported by the Apple App Store and Google Play. The integration of blockchain technology with the ecosystem enables players to own game assets as NFTs and for games to create individual economies centered around customized tokens.

History

Gala Games was founded in 2018 by Zynga Founder and prior CEO Eric Schiermeyer, along with Wright Thurston and Michael McCarthy, with the aim to deliver a blockchain-based gaming ecosystem. The first game built on the network was Town Star, a farming simulation game. The second game, Mirandus, is a fantasy adventure game that launched in October 2020.

As of April 4, 2024, a total of 13 games are live, and five more are listed as “coming soon.” In addition, Gala Music has over 78,000.00 tracks, while Gala Films has yet to release a movie as of the same date. The platform’s official launch date is set for April 14, 2024, to coincide with the release of its first movie, RZR.

Notable milestones in the project’s history include:

• December 2020 - Gala Games integrated with external Ethereum wallets and removed Bitcoin wallet integrations for the time being.
• January 2021 - The project team announced a partnership with Flare and Bitrue to integrate Gala into the Flare Network to alleviate transaction fees.
• March 2021 - Gala Games partnered with Polygon.
• October 2021 - Gala Games announced the development of GalaChain.
• February 2022 - Gala Music launched.
• May 2023 - The ERC-20 GALA token is upgraded from v1 to v2.
• January 2024 - GalaChain and the native GALA token were launched.
• February 2024 - Galaswap is released.

Future plans for the Gala Games and Entertainment Ecosystem were laid out in The Gala Ecosystem Blueprint. These plans begin in Q1 2024 and proceed through Q4 2024 and beyond. Notable designs for each quarter listed are seen below:

• Q1 2024 - (i) Transition Founder’s Node Licenses to NFTs so owners can buy and sell the licenses in a peer-to-peer manner and (ii) create a workload for Founder’s Nodes to also validate bridges.
• Q2 2024 - (i) A new GalaChain explorer is to be developed, (ii) the Gala Creators platform will unify all content for the ecosystem into a single interface, and (iii) in-game purchases using GALA and other tokens are intended to be enabled.
• Q3 2024 - SDKs for Android, iOS, and Unreal Engine on GalaChain are all scheduled to launch.
• Q4 2024 and Beyond - (i) Additional ecosystem bridges and (ii) custom independent chain deployment using Founder’s Nodes.

Source: The Gala Ecosystem Blueprint