Overview
Carda Station is an online world set on the moon that you enter straight from a web browser, with no download and no installer1. You wander a lunar colony, visit land other players own, and see other people moving around you2. Carda Station is built as a casual social world rather than a game with objectives to complete3.
Land parcels, community hub units, and inventory items are each issued as on-chain Cardano collections with published identifiers4, and an item only becomes usable once a player connects a wallet5. Spending inside the world runs on CAST, a Cardano token with a fixed supply, used to create in-game vehicles and the skins that change how they look6. The client is a pre-alpha build, open to anyone who visits the site67.
Key Features
- Nothing to install. The world loads in a browser tab rather than through a download, and the published minimum requirements are 4GB RAM and 10mb download speed1.
- Land you can build on. Colony 1 is divided into 10,000 buildable plots alongside roads, open ground, and shared areas including a stadium, a spaceport, and a bio farm8.
- Places you make yourself. Every land owner receives a set of prebuilt scenes, the buildings and experiences that sit on a parcel, and the documentation describes building your own as well, giving an NFT gallery, a small game, and a shop selling real-world goods as examples9. A user-friendly builder tool sits in the published release schedule10.
- Two bodies, indoors and out. Each player has an indoor character built with Ready Player Me, portable to other apps using the same system, plus an outdoor space suit animated for low gravity11.
- Racing that remembers you. The race track runs solo time trials as well as head-to-head multiplayer, and top times are recorded permanently against your avatar12.
What to Expect
Getting in takes one click, because Carda Station's launch button opens the pre-alpha client in a browser tab6. Movement uses the WASD keys and the mouse, with the C key swapping between first and third person, and Xbox and PlayStation controllers work as well13. Connecting a Cardano wallet is the step that links what you own to your character13.
Inside the colony you will find designated areas: Bio Farm, Central, Solar Farm, Spaceport, and Stadium8. Exploration outside the colony with survival mechanics is listed as a minimum required feature of the planned Alpha release, with oxygen, suit power, and rover power to keep an eye on as you travel1410.
The pre-alpha covers connecting a wallet, visiting land, using inventory, placing 3D models on ground you own, and seeing other players around you2, while voice chat, in-world video, and a building tool sit in the published release schedule rather than in the build10. Colony 1 land parcels, community hub units, and the shared community areas are listed as sold out15, and each collection behind them carries a published on-chain identifier4.
