The idea of SSC was born when The Professor (project head) realized that the cultural institution that is colloquially known as Web3, is dying. Negative elements such as corrupt whitelists, "alpha," cancel culture, lack of aesthetic, and so forth begun to seep into NFT's. The OG spirit that created a space that was once the burgeoning forefront of cryptocurrency and artistic revolution was and is being destroyed.

Nowhere is the decay more visible than in the metaverse gaming sector. (arguably, even video games at large). Metaverse games often soulless, with no community, with no purpose aside to sell the maximum amount of plots and pump someone's holdings.

We decided to start the quest to establish Southside City as the antidote to the bullshit that plagues web3. We're carving our own path and creating our own culture. Something that'll stop the complete deterioration of the internet community we call home.

Imagine a burgeoning and densely populated web3 city, a place where you can truly do anything. Meet with your friends in voice chat, make new connections, meet collaborators for projects, sell your NFT's, create lounges or clubs... the list goes on.

With no restrictions, the city would be filled with everything ranging from NFT galleries to strip shows to meta-drug clubs.

Imagine exploring a world that's truly wild and free. Would it always be perfect? Would it always be comforting? No. It won't. It'll be pure anarchy at times. But what matters is that it's FREE and WILD. The place that truly embodies the spirit of old school web3.

That's what we're working towards creating in Southside City. A cultural and metaverse hub. A place where all can fight or co-exist.

First, we don't do your usual NFT bullshit. We don't ever pay for promotions, we only grow through word of mouth (crazy, right?), we never pressure anyone into buying, and we don't really give a shit about selling out instantly or pumping our bags.

Second, we build with community. No, really. We take user suggestions in our discord, throw them in the game, see what works or not. We source music and graphics from our community (paid for of course). We can't promise we will do every single suggestion that's sent to us, but we're down to try stuff out, together. Whatever you wanted to see in a video game that no one has had the balls to do... we might just have to try it.

Third, in terms of development we just build the game one step at a time. No promising some triple A release in one week like every meta-rug. Nah. We release little snapshots, add on to the game one step at a time till we achieve our vision. It's a long process but everyone can be a part of it. Come test it out and suggest what'd you like to see next. Don't like something? Help us change it!

First of all, no pressure on ever buying anything Southside City related. For real. You can rock with our vision and help contribute even if you don't own anything. The game will always stay free to play with no pay to win.

Other than that you can contribute any way you want. Got music you want in the game? Shoot us a dm, we'll make it happen. Help us write lore in the discord. Make some memes, make some graphics for the game, do anything. We're quasi-open source and are down to include things the community makes.

And hey, if you don't like our community or what we stand for. Leave. We don't need you or your money. But if you fuck with our vision and are ready for a big fight, adventure, infamy, and tons of memories to be made...

Southside City is calling.

NEVER.

Southside City will forever be free to play and with no pay to win. Our community is not blocked off to people who own SSC stuff. If you want to contribute or just play without paying... fucking go for it!

Never. Southside City is designed to be a continually evolving and updating project, with complete open source ambitions in the future. We really see no concrete end to the project.

That being said, we want to give the bare minimum that SSC will accomplish. At absolute bare minimum, SSC will release a game where you can connect with your wallet and access your real estate as well as use your avatar. Doomsday failsafe is to then release the code open source.

Is this our final goal? No. We have ambitions to establish Southside City as the most infamous video game of all time to last for generations to come. But, we believe every project should PROMISE something concrete. Ambitions are different than a promise. That's our bare minimum.

Southside City not an investment. And neither is any project.

We cannot predict the future of the markets. It goes up and it goes down. Any project that tells you they are going to "moon" is either lying or is using pump and dump tactics so the owners can cash out. You shouldn't expect Southside City price to rise depending on what the developers do. If you purchase Southside City NFT's, you should purchase them because you like the mission or wish to use them.

(we won't judge you if you flip SSC to make stacks though, we live off royalty money.)

As part of our commitment to integrity, we do offer refunds for real estate property at a mint price of 0.05 ETH anytime though, no questions asked.

Southside City is run on the Unity engine, with plans to be playable in web browser without download. We'll be seeking and exploring into porting SSC over to XBOX and PS as well.

Southside City is developed to allow you to run it on a shitbox computer. We're not trying to gatekeep the game to people with $10k computer rigs.

Various textures and models as well as scripts you may encounter in Southside City have not been made in house and have been purchased for legal commercial use. The end goal is to develop in house but we're not working with a Triple A budget here kek... we spend time on what matters.
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Any wallet connection (aside from minting) with Southside City will be a public read only signature. On-chain games are exploitable af, and we don't want your shit to get hacked... so we lower the possibility of that as low as it can go.