Project Eluune: StarGarden Expands to Polygon

The highly anticipated play-to-own social game enters strategic partnership with Polygon.

Another week, another major Polygon partnership.

Project Eluune: StarGarden, a team-based auto-chess blockchain game created by the minds behind?Call of Duty, has announced a working relationship with Polygon, adding it as the second blockchain it supports, on top of?Solana.

Arrivant, the company behind the project, opted for a more sustainable option and chose Polygon as the platform due to its dedication to sustainability and recent employment of AAA talents.

With the company’s vision for bringing people together through gamified social experiences, Arrivant intends to conduct its operations across various chains moving forward.

Arrivant CEO, Cedric Gamelin, thrilled with the movement to Polygon, announced:

“We believe Polygon is building an environment well-suited to welcome the next generation of gamers into the space. While we are planning to become a cross-chain project serving players wherever they want to play, we are quite confident many of them will be choosing to play on Polygon.”

The company revealed that they are finalizing a $5M seed funding round at a $35 million total valuation. Leading the funding round were C? Ventures with participation from Polygon, 6th Man, Lightspeed amongst others. ? Arrivant shared that they intend to use the money towards expanding its workforce to secure an early access offering by the beginning of Q1 2023.

According to Urvit Goel, Head of Games BD at Polygon:

?Project Elu?ne: StarGarden is one of Web3?s stand-out titles that genuinely puts player experience, engagement, and innovation first. We are honored to welcome such a talented team to the Polygon family and excited to support Arrivant?s growth and enticing game design goals centered around meaningful new relationships between players.?

What is Project Elu?ne: StarGarden?

Project Elu?ne: StarGarden is an online battler with social RPG mechanics offering players a lush, vibrant, and immersive world consisting of floating islands called the StarGardens. The gameplay revolves around forming “tribes” and allow players to collect, craft, upgrade creatures and showcase their skills in the game.

In addition to traditional and dynamic NFTs, the game also features non-transferable SoulBound NFTs (SBTs) that players can obtain to represent their accomplishments.

The team has already launched an Early Access Alpha to Mission Control which features an extendable Player Passport for tracking, verifying and celebrating individual player progress and social status in the game.

The first players to join will gain special access to future events and unique recognition by the community.