Time Raiders is a fast-paced shoot and loot NFT game. The loot that players collect through gameplay has actual real-world value and can be bought, sold, and traded, as well as being used in the game itself.
Concept project – What is Time Raiders?
Time Raiders is a fast-paced shoot and loot NFT game. The loot that players collect through gameplay has actual real-world value and can be bought, sold, and traded, as well as being used in the game itself.
Players travel through time to fight enemies and take their resources back to their own time, where they can be crafted into new items, sold to fund their activities, or used to power up their character and items. When not in combat, players spend their time in the Interdimensional Hub, home of other time raiders, armorers, scientists, and the ever-present black market. Everything in the game is an NFT that can be traded for XPND.
Outstanding features
What is the project trying to achieve?
Introduction to the Game
The year is 2247. As humanity’s technological prowess increased, so did its appetites, and soon consumption far outstripped what the Earth could supply. Resources became scarce, and competition for them intensified. Corporate moves became corporate raids; national maneuvering turned to war; advancing your career left actual bodies trampled underfoot. The class difference became class divide as the wealthy built gleaming technological towers filled with tech, medicine, and luxury barely comprehensible to the teeming masses left fighting for the scraps.
It soon became apparent even to those who controlled empires that the end of humanity would come soon. No technological breakthrough was imminent, no consensus would be achieved to settle the conflict, no social solution would put an end to the divisions of the remnants of humanity.
Against this looming doom, a mysterious substance was discovered. Seemingly appearing from nowhere and spread among the have and the have-nots without regard for status, this mystifying new material was available to all. This new material, ‘Flux’, allowed people and objects to move through time. Sudden access to the resources of the past offered humanity new hope. This hope caused the rise of a new profession: ‘Time Raider’ Those brave enough, reckless enough, or desperate enough to take the risk could move across time to make their fortunes or meet their fate at the hands of their ancestors.
Time Raiders will be initially released on PC, with future launches planned for Console & Mobile.
WWII-Themed Gaming Landscape
While Time Raiders is not a strictly WWII-themed game, the initial set of missions will be set there. Games using this setting are quite prolific and popular. On Steam alone, 486 titles have this tag, with over 180 million copies purchased. The setting continues to attract both studios and players and will be familiar to everyone.
There are some standouts in a very packed field of titles. Company of Heroes 2 sold over five million copies. Men of War: Assault Squad 2 and Foxhole each sold hundreds of thousands of copies, while Blitzkrieg 3 sold over 70,000. The newest of the large sellers was released in 2017, so Time Raiders does not have the competition of a new game in the field capturing the attention of gamers. The sheer number of units sold across all games shows the enduring appeal of the genre and gives Time
Raiders are the instant setting recognition that will draw players in.
What is unique selling point?
Game Mechanics
Time Raiders, at its core, is a shoot and loot game. Players will face off against waves of enemies of a variety of types, get loot drops from slain enemies, and return to the marketplace to sell their items, upgrade their weapons and characters, and add power to their Time Flux to access new levels. All transactions will be in the native token Xpendium ($XPND). The initial setting will be an alternate timeline of World War II Europe with Nazis as the main antagonists. The nature of the game lore allows virtually unlimited new settings to be created, as Time Flux allows travel to any point in history and any point on Earth; in addition to settings such as Ancient Greece, Imperial Rome, Prehistoric Earth, Medieval Europe, or Samurai-era Japan, the game’s setting in 2247 will allow travel to points that are in the player’s futures but still in the game’s past.
