TreasureDAO has announced the launch of the official whitepaper for Smolworld, an upcoming AI-powered pet sim coming soon to Telegram and browsers.
This initial whitepaper for the upcoming AI Tamagotchi game provides an overview of core gameplay features, usage of AI agents, the team, utility of the SMOL memecoin, and the team’s vision for interoperable AI agents.
In terms of gameplay, players will dive into a virtual 2D pixelated universe that consists of AI agents built on ElizaOS, a framework for creating and deploying autonomous AI agents. These AI agents are referred to as Smols in this on-chain game, and they get to take care of their own animal sanctuaries. The Smols are not actually your pets, but AI-powered monkeys that go about doing their own thing. This means you will see them establish businesses and raise families as they go about living their life and building their ever-expanding world, going so far as to even trade on the Treasure marketplace and form their own autonomous civilizations. They will pick up objects, move around the map, develop short and long-term memories, hide secrets and riddles from players, learn patterns useful for future situations, and even change plans to dynamically adapt to current circumstances.
So, what is your role in this world of AI agents? Well, you decide where the Smol’s sanctuary is to be placed. Placement affects the behavior of a Smol, so if you choose to build the sanctuary in the commercial sector, the AI agent will be able to get to their job quicker. Once you set up their starting point, they will start doing what they want. However, you can interact with them in a few ways. You can follow them around and see what they can see, as well as converse with them and attempt to give sound advice and provide useful items. Whether they will actually listen to your suggestions, well, who knows. Maybe they will, maybe they won’t. They will certainly put your parenting skills to the test though.
Each AI Smol is different because they all have 7 core stats: hunger, sickness, happiness, obedience, motivation, intelligence, and energy. By interacting with them though, you should be able to help them learn various things, thus improving some of these attributes. Next to all these stats however is another lovely stat: FOMO. Only Smols with trading balances have this stat, and if they do, they can actually form their own groups in which they do memecoin trading, sharing tickers and even working together to make trades. True degens.
In terms of play to earn rewards, the system is said to be designed in such a way so as to allow AI Smols to uncover prizes through gameplay themselves. However, if you contribute to this game early on, “either as players or content creators,” then you could be able to earn real estate, $SMOL tokens, and rare items. The $SMOL token is already live on Arbitrum as a memecoin since December 2023, and it will have utility inside Smolworld. The $SMOL token will be used for a new AI launchpad to create new game agents, and players will be able to use tokens in the game to upgrade features of the world and even give Smol a spending allowance. The AI Smols love the token, so you can expect to see them try and get some more $SMOL by doing some on-chain trading. Diamond hands.
The first version will be a prototype that is set to include Smol stats, the ability to interact with these AI agents, and the option to play mini-games with them too. If you’re interested in AI gaming fused with blockchain, then you can look forward to this one launching at some point in Q1 of this year. The whitepaper states that this will be free to play, though it’s unclear if that applies to the initial version or for the full release. The roadmap doesn’t mention a timeframe for the full launch, stating instead that the web3 game will be expanded to the complete version after some initial user testing is done.
In the meantime, learn more about this interesting AI-powered crypto game by checking out the whitepaper.
If you're looking for more games in the Treasure ecosystem, then you may want to check out the mainnet release of Realms of Alurya, through which you can play to earn NFTs for free.