Imagine GTA, and now add metaverse elements to it, in a virtual space made for real humans building their lives, making a living and interacting with each other – that’s what The Sprawl is all about. We are going to see a lot of web3 games in 2023, and games like Sprawl will be a good example of how game developers are putting elements together to create the best.

The Sprawl is a seething mass of virtual humanity, all rushing to make money. It is a living virtual-urban expanse of concrete, brick and steel. It is a wasteland of hopes and a field of dreams. It is a great machine that burns citizens for fuel. It is a system of systems; a community of communities. It’s a wild democratic experiment in the Midwest of the metaverse.

About the game Sprawl

It is a city that is a 3D web3 sandbox city, a single shard that is then divided into several districts, and each of these districts has a DAO that makes the laws and sets the taxes to govern them. There is no reset button for players so whatever is done in the game stays done and persistence is what gives the game a real life feel.

Players can navigate the game by car or on foot. If you want, you can seamlessly drive from one end to the other, stopping only to fill up the tank with gas. Gated communities, decaying industrial estates, uptown shops, strip malls, bohemian enclaves, hipster districts, hillside mansions, suburban sprawl. If you see a place you like and can buy it, you can live in it.

The player resides in a house in one of the districts, and the district is the neighborhood with a few hundred player houses around it, and the activities performed by the player and the work done collectively contribute to the economy of the district. A list of jobs, NFTs for those, cash, salary, and much more is on Sprawl for users to live an alternate life in the metaverse.

Tokens and Tokenomics

The game would run with two tiles.

• SPRL: a variable supply token
• SPRLDAO: a fixed supply token

SPRL is the token that players earn by doing jobs and helping the community. It is paid daily, and the salary depends on the job rank, and the most you can do is 3 different jobs per day. SPRL comes with some utilities including vehicle purchase, maintenance, purchase of vehicle parts, and purchase of rare home decor.

The SPRL token is minted as it is earned. After an initial supply of liquidity is provided, token burn will also occur for in-game purchases so that the supply is controlled.

SPRLDAO is a fixed supply token used for in-game governance. This token is earned once a week, and the player with the highest job rank will receive a bonus paid with this token. The SPRLDAO token comes with multiple utilities, which you can understand by referring to the Sprawl whitepaper where they have detailed it.

These tokens have a total supply of 500 million, and with each new district implemented, 5% of SPRLDAO’s supply will be allocated to the Player Reward Pool.

The team behind Sprawl

Sprawl is being built by some of the industry veterans at Black Block Studios, and this group has previously worked at Rockstar and Rovio.

• robin squirethe CEO had previously worked as Director of Consumer Engagement and Marketing at Rovio and its publishing label Rovio Stars.
• Paul Kurowskithe CPO has worked as a lead artist at Rockstar North, who was behind the development of the GTA game.
• Stanislav SemakinSprawl’s CTO has worked as a back-end developer at PlayRaven.
• matthew wilson he is the adviser and president here, and has experience as a former director of Rovio bizdev.
• Other publicly named team members include scott mcfarlane (Art director), Gustaf Svenungsson (Game Developer), Eerik Hirvonen (Game Developer), R max (Game Artist), and Igor Borovsky (Web developer).

Mint details and supply

Sprawl will be offering the first mint as a FREE supply, with a total of 2200 NFTs that will be available to mint for those who are whitelisted, and there are several whitelisting opportunities available for those who want to get a secured whitelist to play the game and be an early gamer. The first installment of 2200 NFTs are the City Passes. It will provide priority whitelisting for Job Avatar NFTs, access to a special Discord channel, a citizen forum, and whitelisting of Sprawl partnerships and collaborations.

It will go live on Ethereum on December 22 at 1pm UTC. Please join the Sprawl Discord server to learn more about the game and try to get whitelisted for yourself.

• The expansion Website: Link
• The expansion Medium: Link
• The expansion Twitter: Link
• The expansion Discord: Link