Social farming MMO and growing web3 gaming ecosystem Pixels has officially launched Leon’s Neon Zone, giving blockchain gamers a new area in the Ronin-powered title to play to earn various rewards in, including $PIXEL tokens and NFT Pets.

What Is Leon’s Neon Zone in Pixels?

Leon’s Neon Zone is a newly-renovated building in the browser-based Pixels game that anyone with Zonez Tokens can access to start playing arcade mini-games and earn Stuff Stubbs that can be redeemed for on-chain rewards.

Zonez Tokens represent the official currency of this new area that you need to use if you want to play all of the arcade games in that location. This currency can be bought in bundles at Bart’s Booth, with the Bundle of 10 only available for purchase 5 times a day.

With enough Zonez Tokens, you can start playing various arcade games in order to earn Stuff Stubbs, which is a special currency that can be redeemed at Buffy’s Third Dimension Store, which features rewards such as neon-lit wearables, Farm Charm Point boosting decor items, and more goodies. Stuff Stubbs can also be used at the Vaporwheel of Fate, where you can spin to earn valuable prizes.

The Vaporwheel of Fate is where you can earn another new special currency: Divining Doubloons. These can be redeemed at Master Zeller’s Fortune Feller. Master Zeller will read your fortune, and who knows, you could win some big rewards from him right away, including $PIXEL tokens, Robo-dog NFT Pets, Wineries, and more.

Every arcade game in this building also comes with its own set of rewards. These are milestone-based rewards that award you with bonus Stuff Stubs and Zonez Tokens depending on how many times you play each mini-game.

Next to all this, there are also two biweekly leaderboards through which you can earn $PIXEL tokens: the Overall Leaderboard, and the Higher Lower Leaderboard.

The Overall Leaderboard features a biweekly prize pool of 79,125 $PIXEL tokens up for grabs for the top 500 players who accumulate the highest number of points from ranked plays of arcade games within the given time period. All arcade games that are found on the top floor count towards your ranking. The winner gets 10,000 $PIXEL tokens, while 2nd place wins 7500 $PIXEL tokens and 3rd place walks away with 5000 $PIXEL tokens. The top 3 players also receive an additional limited edition trophy. Rewards are distributed shortly after the 14-day period has passed. Here is how the full distribution looks like:

  • Rank 1: 10,000 $PIXEL
  • Rank 2: 7500 $PIXEL
  • Rank 3: 5000 $PIXEL
  • Rank 4: 3250 $PIXEL
  • Rank 5: 2000 $PIXEL
  • Rank 6 – 10: 1500 $PIXEL
  • Rank 11 – 20: 1000 $PIXEL
  • Rank 21 – 50: 500 $PIXEL
  • Rank 51 – 75: 250 $PIXEL
  • Rank 76 – 100: 100 $PIXEL
  • Rank 101 – 200: 75 $PIXEL
  • Rank 201 – 300: 25 $PIXEL
  • Rank 301 – 500: 10 $PIXEL

While the Overall Leaderboard takes into account your total score across all ranked plays in 14 days, the Higher Lower Leaderboard only tracks your highest score in a single round. It is also however a biweekly event, albeit with a slightly lower reward pool of 69,000 $PIXEL tokens. The highest-ranked player gets 15,000 $PIXEL tokens, which is 5k more than from the Overall Leaderboard. Ranking 2nd gives you 10k $PIXEL tokens, while 3rd place awards 7500 $PIXEL tokens. Here is the complete breakdown for reward distribution from the Higher Lower Leaderboard:

  • Rank 1: 15,000 $PIXEL
  • Rank 2: 10,000 $PIXEL
  • Rank 3: 7500 $PIXEL
  • Rank 4: 5000 $PIXEL
  • Rank 5: 2500 $PIXEL
  • Rank 6 – 10: 1000 $PIXEL
  • Rank 11 – 20: 500 $PIXEL
  • Rank 21 – 30: 250 $PIXEL
  • Rank 31 – 100: 100 $PIXEL
  • Rank 101 – 200: 50 $PIXEL
  • Rank 201 – 300: 25 $PIXEL
  • Rank 301 – 500: 10 $PIXEL

How to Play to Earn in Leon’s Neon Zone

To play to earn in Leon’s Neon Zone, you can get started by launching the Pixels game on your web browser and heading to Terra Villa Central. If this is your first time playing, you can sign up by connecting your MetaMask, Ronin Wallet, phone number or email address. You will need to complete a tutorial phase for the main game before you can access this new event.

From Terra Villa Central, head on west from the fountain to find the newly-renovated building. Go inside to talk with Manager Artie and other employees, and then buy some Zonez Tokens at Bart’s Booth to start playing arcade games. You can buy a Zonez 10-Pack Bundle for 45,000 Coins, a Zonez 50-Pack Bundle for 10 $PIXEL, and a Zonez 100-Pack Bundle for 25 $PIXEL, with the latter two giving you a bonus of 10 and 30 Zonez respectively. The Zonez 10-Pack Bundle is only available for purchase 5 times a day.

With enough Zonez Tokens, you can start playing a variety of arcade games at the top floor to earn Stuff Stubbs while attempting to get the highest scores that you can within 14 days in order to try and rank at the top of the Overall and Higher Lower Leaderboards for $PIXEL rewards. Each arcade game can be played up to 5 times per day to earn ranked scores. You can play unranked however for as many times as you want to have fun and improve for the next day.

About Pixels

Pixels is a free to play social farming MMO that runs on the Ronin network and allows players to play to earn $PIXEL tokens and other rewards by farming and selling resources while completing daily quests, participating in limited-time events, and owning NFT land.

Next to the flagship farming sim, Pixels is also a growing web3 gaming ecosystem that consists of a multi-game staking system where players can stake $PIXEL tokens to certain games to earn rewards and unlock various incentives. In June this year, Sleepagotchi joined the $PIXEL staking system. The same month also saw the Pixels Ecosystem reach an impressive 100 million $PIXEL staking milestone. Next to Pixels and Sleepagotchi LITE, other games part of the ecosystem so far include Pixel Dungeons and Forgotten Runiverse.