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Today is the day that I decided to look into what Arcade Colony and Moon Karts is all about. As I type this I know next to zero about Moon Arts other than Arcade Colony created and launched it. As with most my Hive Related searches I figured if I'm going to spend time researching then I should put my findings into a post. So that is what is happening. The question now becomes where do we start that research. As always I search the Hive Blockchain to see if there is any associated profile names linked to the project I'm researching. Sure enough Arcade Colony has their very own Hive account named (yup you guessed it) 
Official Arcade Colony Quote
The Invennium Corporation, a 100% subsidiary of Splinterlands, is thrilled to unveil its new gaming platform, Arcade Colony, accompanied by the launch of its inaugural game, Moon Karts!
Invennium Corporation announces the creation and launch of Arcade Colony and Moon Karts
Moon Karts – The First Game:
The inaugural game on Arcade Colony is "Moon Karts," a Web3 play-to-earn kart racing game built with the Unity Engine. Players can purchase packs to collect drivers, karts, and accessories, which enables them to compete in multiplayer races. Moon Karts introduces an innovative earning system through leaderboards, skill-based rankings, in-race coin collection, and a referral program. The game allows up to six players to race at a time. On the track are coins, which if collected can earn token based rewards, but be careful! Your opponents have the ability to shoot your vehicle to slow you down, knock you off course, and empty your kart of precious coins you hope to earn. Will you make it to the Moon or will you be sidelined and lose your rewards? Click the highlighted link to read more.
Rentmoney's Thoughts
- Interesting, sounds like fun, backed by the knowledge of those that help make Splinterlands successful, all things looking promising so far, lets continue the research.
Moon Karts Official Trailer
The second post from the @arcadecolony Hive profile account was the Arcade Colony Whitepaper. Click here to visit that post and learn more about the Whitepaper
The core components of Arcade Colony are a(n):
directory of games for product discovery
player driven marketplace
publisher managed shop
account management screen to view assets and tokens across games
full transaction history that can be sorted by year
payment system that allows direct payment to publisher
authentication system that allows users from different platforms to validate users
collection of bridging services to allow desired assets to interoperate
smart contract platform that allows minting, issuing, transferring, and renting of fungible and non-fungible tokens
functioning Decentralized Autonomous Organization based on COLONY
Visit the linked Whitepaper post above to learn more
Arcade Colony followed the whitepaper post up with a teaser post and released some eye-candy.
Above Is The Prep Screen When Getting Ready To Race
RentMoney Continues His Research
After digging into all of that I kept the research going. I discovered a now completed promotional post. If you are interested in visiting it you can Click Here. Afterwards I stumbled upon the launch post which you can visit by clicking the following highlighted url link Arcade Colony is live
IT'S ALIVE!!!
---> https://www.arcadecolony.com
Log into https://www.arcadecolony.com. You'll notice a new redirect to https://sso.invennium.com, which is our new single sign on portal for all things Invennium (Goals, Genesis League, Moon Karts, and Arcade Colony + all new projects that come to our ecosystem). If you're already registered with Goals there's nothing new to do, but if you're new to our platform we'll need an email address along that you'll tie to a hive blockchain account.
🚀 Moon Karts - A Web3 Play-to-Earn Adventure:
Welcome to the exhilarating world of Moon Karts, a pioneering step in the realm of web3 and blockchain gaming. Moon Karts, developed by the seasoned team behind the renowned web3 trading card game Splinterlands, represents a bold fusion of high-octane kart racing and the lucrative framework of play-to-earn gaming. Click here to read more.
Alpha Centauri Pack Details For Moon Karts!
Click the highlighted link to read full details. It's in the above post that its announced that Alpha Centauri Pack will trade for a total of Five Scripts or Five USD. Bulk purchase deals are possible.
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The price for packs will be $5, which can be paid with credits or with 5 script. If script is trading below par value then players are able to get a discount on pack purchases by using Script as their payment choice.
Bonus Packs
Players can get bonus packs. If players purchase 100 packs they can burn 5 colony to get an additional 5 packs. If players purchase 500 packs they can burn 50 colony to get an additional 50 packs. If players purchase 2000 packs they can burn 350 Colony to get an additional 350 packs.
Rarity Chances in General
There are 5 cards per pack. When opening packs there is a
0.8% chance a card in a pack will be legendary
4.8% chance a card in a pack will be epic
24.8% chance a card will be rare
69.6% chance a card will be common
4% chance a card is gold
Card Combining Rarity
More Info:
Arcade Colony Whitepaper - https://whitepaper.arcadecolony.com/
Moon Karts Whitepaper - https://moonkarts.gitbook.io/moonkarts-tm/game-overview
Official blog- @arcadecolony
Arcade Colony Discord - https://discord.gg/AgkhmczmSs
RentMoney's Thoughts On All This:
I have more research to do but I am intrigued. This seems like a fun game to play. On the surface the Moon Karts game seems to have that Mario Kart vibe which I'm sure the creators were going for (Which is great) who doesn't like Mario Kart. The most recent post from the official
Disclaimer: No financial advice has been given in this post. The 