
In 2018, the game known as Ember Sword began its development at Bright Star Studios, a company situated in Aarhus, Denmark. This studio conceived it as a blockchain-integrated title, where the native $EMBER token, built on Ethereum, would serve for purchasing and upgrading an array of items including cosmetics and equipment. The game’s economy was designed with a fixed supply of items to preserve their worth. In April 2020, Bright Star Studios successfully secured $700,000 in pre-seed funding for the project, as per records maintained by Wellfound. By August of the following year, the developer had sold virtual plots of land valued at approximately $203 million in the Solarwood Nation, one of Ember Sword’s four realms.