Recently, the emerging virtual world platform Astra launched a $250,000 creator incentive program to find developers and creators interested in world building, design, and experience to build on Astra's existing infrastructure using Unreal Engine.
It is understood that Astra aims to create a virtual world that provides one-stop services such as shopping, gaming and social networking, and introduces encryption and NFT technology as its business pillars. The team previously received the Epic Megagrant.
It is reported that the program is aimed at developers mainly around the Web 3 ecosystem, including NFT strategists, game economy designers, Unreal sound engineers, environmental architects, digital fashion designers and DeFi developers, etc., and successful applicants will receive a $10,000 reward. To get started, you'll need to join Astra's Discord channel and find guidance on the rest of the application process on this Twitter post.
As detailed in its Astra whitepaper, the virtual world allows you to attend concerts with friends, digital egg contests and other activities, spend in cryptocurrency at virtual stores, buy LAND, and earn game tokens. At the same time, it will make heavy use of NFTs for gaming, such as playing games that will allow you to win stylish NFTs for your avatar.
Astra has hosted and will continue to host contest days, digital paintball games conferences for early adopters. Astra will grow its community not only through grants, but also through hackathons in the second quarter, followed by the launch of the LAND sales campaign in the third quarter.
Astra sees VR as the future of the virtual world, so it will add support for VR headsets like Somnium Space, rather than The Sandbox or Decentraland without immersion.